Sounds of Water
Turtle Bay Arboretum • Redding, CA • 2004
“With the 2015 drought in California, the Turtle Bay Arboretum in Redding CA has shut down many of the art pieces that incorporate water. Despite the lack of rain and the lowering water table, one piece uses water with minimal impact and hence continues to burble; this is The Sounds of Water.”
—Betsy Damon, ramsar.org
More about Sounds of Water
Sounds of Water is a multi-functional water feature and a metaphor for the mountains and earth—the sources of water—at the Turtle Bay Arboretum in Redding, CA.
The primary uses of water are represented as three systems stemming from a spring -- agriculture, industry and domestic water. Information about each of these systems is carved into the stones and concrete. Water bubbles, sprays and gurgles through the system and then discharged into a wetland through which the waters are recycled.