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This reminded me of The Oregon Garden (see below). The City of Silverton zaps all its waste water with UV light, after other treatment processes, leaving the wa
by Fezzik 7y ago
This reminded me of The Oregon Garden (see below). The City of Silverton zaps all its waste water with UV light, after other treatment processes, leaving the water a few degrees too hot to put back in to the watershed. So, the water is then pumped a few miles to a manmade, multi-acre wetlands habitat, that cools the water down and naturally adds nutrients prior to re-entering a stream. On top of that, the City has built a botanical garden that also uses this water and added a conference center. There is also a free educational program sponsored by a local grocery store owner that utilizes the area to teach K-12 kids about wetlands.
There are all sorts of other neat factoids about the complex, but there really are creative/ingenious ways to address our waste.
https://www.oregongarden.org/ https://www.oregongarden.org/
- elihu 7y agoI haven't visited in awhile, but they also have a Frank Lloyd Wright house (I think it's the only one in Oregon) that used to be in Wilsonville, but the owner wanted to bulldoze it in favor of a fancy mansion, so some people convinced him to allow them to move it to the Oregon Gardens.
- Fezzik 7y agoI forgot about that! It is a very unique set of things that have accumulated around the gardens. I worked there through AmeriCorps in 04/05 and remember it fondly. I have always wondered why more small communities do not adopt a similar method for waste water treatment.
- ta1234567890 7y agoIt's really cool the way they re-purpose the hot water. They could also use something like a water plasma sanitation device that doesn't heat up the water.