NEWS: Litigation hinders ability to assist communities hit by Monday’s storm [#StormwaterProgram]

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• May 13th, 2014
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A stream rack holds back storm debris near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport following a heavy rain event May 12. $20 million remains inaccessible in stormwater escrow Northeast Ohio communities are underwater from the storm that moved into the region on Monday night. Unfortunately, as a result of the Ohio...

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EVENT: Smells like victory. Run a 5K through one of the country’s largest wastewater treatment plants June 14

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• May 8th, 2014
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You’ve never run a 5K like this before. Join us June 14 for our second annual Cuyahoga River Clean Water Classic #CWC5K, a one-of-a-kind fundraising 5K run/walk through one of the largest wastewater treatment plants of its kind in the country, the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center in Cuyahoga Heights....

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VIDEO: No, we do want you to see what we allegedly don’t want you to see.

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• May 7th, 2014
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What was recorded and posted to YouTube in the style of an exposé is actually a great educational resource to better understand pollution sources and their impacts on Lake Erie. YouTube user pmc291 recently posted this video to our Facebook page under a very ominous title, “NORSD NOT WHAT...

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LOOK: Wherever you are, look down. This could be happening under your feet right now.

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• April 22nd, 2014
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Next time you see a manhole in the street, think about the work it took to build the system beneath it. This picture from March helps tell some of that story. The huge scaffolding is 35 feet tall, erected 240 feet underground, and stands within an enormous cavern that...

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PIC: Two eggs you should be glad you didn’t get in your Easter basket

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• April 22nd, 2014
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Maybe the Easter bunny knows we work on holidays. Could these really be Easter eggs inside one of our treatment processes? Could they have survived the journey through the sewer system? Christen Wood snapped this pic at our Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant on Sunday. These are first-stage settling tanks...

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VIDEO: “Police of the underworld,” Vienna’s sewer brigade of 1934

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• April 18th, 2014
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The city of Vienna once had a police squad specifically trained for sewer patrols. This 1934 British newsreel showcases the “canal brigade” of Vienna, Austria, braving the bowels of the city, a common hiding place for criminals at the time. Most interesting to us was the squad’s frequency of...

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#TBT: They don’t make garden hose advertisements like this anymore.

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• April 17th, 2014
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In 1914, Australians apparently took their yard work very seriously. This ad for Dunlop Garden Hoses as seen on Wikipedia takes us back to a different time in fashion. But it also reminds us of two points relevant today. First, if you have a lawn or garden and water...

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ENTERTAINMENT: #Watermen series will take reality TV to a new low, and it looks filthy.

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• April 15th, 2014
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Reality television is about to hit a new low: Sewers, and the team who keeps things flowing. United Utilities—one of the UK’s largest water and wastewater service providers—will star in a six-part documentary series called “Watermen: A dirty business” on BBC2 starting today. United Utilities will be tweeting along...

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Wedding at a wastewater treatment plant? Hyped headline, but points for creativity.

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• April 14th, 2014
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Oh for goodness sake. A beautiful education center near a wastewater treatment plant mentions the phrase “wedding reception” and suddenly the media thinks they’re inviting couples to say their nuptials waist-deep in poo. See for yourself. King County in Washington operates the Brightwater Center, an education complex and community...

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#SewerCoverCONTEST: A sewer manhole cover as a canvas? Your design could be worth $500 for local charity.

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• April 10th, 2014
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Next time you pass a manhole cover in the street, think of it as a cast-iron canvas and your design could last a lifetime. As the Sewer District prepares new green infrastructure and Project Clean Lake construction, we are offering northeast Ohioans the chance to design the cast-iron manhole...

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