Water has resumed flowing at Talking Water Gardens, the constructed wetlands that Albany was forced to let dry up this summer.
To settle a dispute with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality over leaks from the system of waterfalls and ponds, the city of Albany stopped running treated wastewater through the wetlands in December 2024,
The city hired a contractor to install a pump to take water from Cox Creek and pipe it into the wetlands at a rate of up to 3 cubic feet per second. The pump setup was to to be installed by now. So, I wondered, was it?…