Landscape With a Purpose: Effective Treatment and Botanical Beauty

An Oregon city combines a constructed wetland used to cool and treat wastewater effluent with a unique botanical garden

Landscape With a Purpose: Effective Treatment and Botanical Beauty

Sculptures at the Bosque Garden feature a large central plaza with four reflecting ponds and 40 planter boxes, each containing a single Pacific sunset maple. 

The City of Silverton, Oregon, was planning a constructed wetland to solve a stream thermal overload problem involving its Schemmel Lane Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Oregon Association of Nurseries was looking for place to build a botanical garden.

Through collaboration and...

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