I used to bird the treatment plant with the local Audubon Society in the early 2000s. There were about 5 ponds adjacent to SR 89A exactly where the new wetlands are located. As with the City’s drainage situation, these ponds were not maintained. Soon plant life overtook them. Eventually cows were allowed to graze the area and woof down the native and non-native vegetation. Not too long afterwards, bulldozers showed up and the area was nuked.

Now we have a boring wetlands with little plant diversity and almost no trees in the location where a nice wetlands once existed. In addition to the loss of plant diversity, the diversity in bird species is not that good, either. And how many residents and visitors want to picnic at a sewer plant? Just as the Mayor claimed at the Osher Institute Lunch & Learn, ‘the funds were well spent.”

We’ve lots of people serving thinking they’re knighted & not citizens. For less than 10K why run a dog & pony show like Phoenix? You’re just not all that.