CAREERS: Training, development opportunities give employees a chance to grow and improve

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• October 1st, 2014
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One of the advantages to working at the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is the opportunity to advance one’s career. The District offers two training programs for careers in Maintenance and Wastewater Plant Operation—through which District employees develop their proficiencies and reach their disciplines. Maintenance Training has four different...

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HISTORY: Big balls were used to clear sewers of the 1870s

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• September 23rd, 2014
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The sewer ball on a vintage postcard. Via delcampe.net Now that’s old school. Cleaning sewers in Paris in the 1870s literally required rolling giant balls of wood and iron through the tunnels. Atlas Obscura recently posted a story about the history of the world-famous sewer network under Paris, France,...

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SOURCES: Latest tunnel construction project to be powered by giant hamster wheel. Or not.

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• September 12th, 2014
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Not an Onion headline, just fun with an already great photo. When our Director of Engineering & Construction Kellie Rotunno tweeted her original pic earlier in the week, posting progress on our enormous Euclid Creek Tunnel project, it got our wheels spinning. Wholly ring beams batman! Check out this...

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WOW: “Wannabe photog” captures lightning strike, eerie shelf cloud over Lake Erie

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• September 11th, 2014
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When storms pop up over Lake Erie, our wastewater treatment plant operators are ready. It’s a bonus when someone has a camera ready, too. These amazing images were taken by one of our consultants from Brown & Caldwell by the name of Nick Bucurel. Nick is on-call at all...

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#WaterWorks: Pipes, problems, and potential? Why water infrastructure stands in the national spotlight today.

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• September 10th, 2014
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  Efficiency doesn’t always make headlines. Today, a national summit in Washington, D.C. is trying to change that by bringing attention to the water infrastructure our entire country relies on and yet so often overlooks. The goal is to raise awareness of the jobs and economic impact of America’s...

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VIDEO: Watch the full #OHstormwater arguments from the Supreme Court hearing

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• September 10th, 2014
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Case No. 2013-1770 Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District v. Bath Township, Ohio, et al.

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VIDEO: @DCwater GM accepts our director’s #IceBucketChallenge. On a green roof.

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• September 9th, 2014
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When one water professional calls out another water professional to a challenge based on buckets filled with the very essence of their work, the results are gonna be interesting. Cheers to DC Water‘s General Manager George Hawkins for accepting our director Ciaccia’s ice-bucket challenge as both men took the...

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TECH: How to save your new iPhone 6+ if it falls in the toilet [#waittotweet]

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• September 9th, 2014
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Whether you’re waiting in line for Apple’s new iPhone 6 or still rocking your Blackberry, this can be useful. Or better yet, you could just wait to tweet.

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LIST: 4 ways Hollywood is like (or not like) what we’ll see at our Supreme Court #OHstormwater hearing

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• September 4th, 2014
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Law & Order. The Good Wife. LA Law. Ally McBeal. How do the popular TV courtroom dramas stand up to an actual Ohio Supreme Court hearing? We’ll find out September 9 when the Sewer District argues its case for a Regional Stormwater Management Program. While it might not make...

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PIC: And now, just your average sewer blockage longer than a Boeing 747.

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• September 2nd, 2014
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Next time you consider flushing wipes or washing cooking grease down your drain, consider you might be contributing to a Boeing 747-size sewer blockage under your city. It happened in the UK where Thames Water recently spent four days clearing a 262-foot blockage of fat, grease, and disposable wipes...

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