What better way to mark Ash Wednesday than with ashes? An ash lagoon, more specifically. In this image, crews are cleaning one of three ash lagoons at our Southerly...
Are we poisoning fish by releasing polluted water into the Cuyahoga River? Contrary to the YouTube video’s inaccurate captions above, we are not. We were alerted to this video...
OK, it would be way too easy to make a J. Geils Band reference here when comparing romance to wastewater treatment, but there are far more similarities between cleaning...
Mackenzie’s knocking on Lake Erie’s door. The tunnel boring machine that is digging our Euclid Creek Tunnel project—an 18,000-foot journey 200 feet under Cleveland’s east side—is named Mackenzie. And...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it… flow? Last month, an Arizona ski resort began making snow entirely from its most reliable water source: Water recycled from Flagstaff’s...
This afternoon, we’ve invited local TV meteorologists to join us for a #RainMatters workshop. Chances of a stormwater education? 100 percent. With the help of WKYC Chief Meteorologist Betsy...
Why is the Sewer District using social media? Because you are. That’s the simple answer we’ve offered before, but we recently presented these slides at a professionals networking event....
Here’s one birthday that’s a total crapper. Thomas J. Crapper, actually. January 13 marked the 150th birthday of plumber Thomas J. Crapper‘s invention, a one-piece pedestal for a flushing...
Snow on the roads this morning makes traveling treacherous, but what’s going on below the surface? Our Sewer System Maintenance and Operation crews inspect sewers all year round, and...
As stormwater fee credit applications continue to flow in, we’ve noticed a few areas where customers have overlooked requirements in order for us to process their applications properly. If...