QUESTION: What would you like to see?

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• January 31st, 2012
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Our monthly email blast—environotes—has been around for several years in several forms. First, it was a limited distribution print newsletter, then an email newsletter, and now a collection of the month’s social-media highlights from your Sewer District. At one time, we focused on public-officials news, then shifted to Sewer...

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ARCHIVES: Lab, 1940

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• January 20th, 2012
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Caption: “Westerly sewage treatment plant, West 58th and Lakefront, inside oflaboratory showing arrangement and equipment. View: Looking north.” A closeup of the gentleman and equipment on the right.

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24/7: Wastewater never takes a holiday

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• January 13th, 2012
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There are no “normal” business hours because, well, people are doing their business at all hours of the day. Many residents may not realize our three wastewater treatment plants—Southerly in Cuyahoga Heights, and Easterly and Westerly in Cleveland—are operated by staff working around the clock to treat wastewater and...

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NEWS: Green infrastructure projects will sprout in 2012

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• December 29th, 2011
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As part of its plan to reduce the amount raw sewage entering local waterways, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District submitted its green infrastructure plan to the United States Environmental Protection Agency yesterday. The plan is a component of the Project Clean Lake consent decree signed between the...

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RATES: Changes effective Jan. 1

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• December 28th, 2011
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On January 1, 2012, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s rates and billing structure is changing. Here is a summary to help you better understand the changes. No more minimum charge Before 2012, users were charged a for 1,000 cubic feet of water (1 MCF, or 7,480 gallons) of...

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BEST OF: Top @neorsd stories of 2011

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• December 23rd, 2011
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Customers, construction, communication, community, what made our list of top headlines in 2011? Here’s what we posted, but let us know what you think we may have missed.

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BEST OF: Wally’s top tweets of 2011

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• December 16th, 2011
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When Wally Waterdrop posted his first tweet in 2009, we didn’t know how we might use Twitter, or Facebook, or YouTube for our customers’ benefit. Our top tweets reveal a few ways in which we hope our social media efforts made a difference. Check it out on Storify.

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ASK US: “I shut off my water. Why do I have sewer charges?”

• Posted by Jared Shepherd
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• December 7th, 2011
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Our Ask Us! page recently received the following email from a customer who spends several months a year out west: I spend the winter in Arizona. I shut my water off but I still have sewer charges. Is there any way of avoiding these charges since i’m not using...

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ARCHIVES: “Detailed plan, 1902”

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• December 2nd, 2011
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Scanned from a series of glass-plate slides from the early 1900s, this 1902 blueprint shows a schematic for a primary filter.

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TECH: Are water utilities a target for hackers?

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• November 22nd, 2011
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Photo by Getty Images courtesy bbc.co.uk Earlier this month, an Illinois water utility confirmed it was the victim of an apparent cyber attack which led to the failure of one of its pumps. While Chicago’s ABC affiliate reports that Federal authorities had not yet confirmed the details, the utility...

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