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, district manager of the Nueces County Water Control & Improvement District No. 4, which owns and operates the plant.
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 full-time residents. Winter Texans
