Albany Water uncovers two-century-old wood water main

ALBANY — City water department employees were about five feet beneath the asphalt on Broadway when they came across something they weren't expecting.A log."As soon as we saw it, I thought, 'Well, that can't be an old telephone pole,'" said Joseph Coffey, the department's commissioner.They pulled out the log, which was about six feet long and hollowed out, only to learn that it was a piece of Albany's history as well as a testament to how far we've come in water infrastructure over the past