Nothing But Benefit

A pond-wetland complex in Port Aransas, Texas, attracts birders and nature lovers and helps clean treatment plant effluent in the bargain
Nothing But Benefit
Occupying nearly 10 acres of wetlands that include an 8-acre pond, the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center is a major tourist attraction to this city of nearly 3,500.

Officials in the Texas gulf coast City of Port Aransas will tell you that locating an avian center adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant has been nothing but a benefit.

“It brings in a lot of tourists and presents the plant as a good neighbor — which it is,” says Mark Young,...

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