#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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HOME: A healthy environment starts at home, and it might start with these 33 tips.

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• April 8th, 2014
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If this is what it looks like under your kitchen sink, there has to be a better way. Better for you, better for our water, and better for the environment. From eco-friendly cleaning solutions, to disposal tips for those trash items that don’t belong on your curb, we have...

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VIDEO: Could this really be 1,000 miles of toilet paper?

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• April 6th, 2014
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Woah that’s a lot of toilet paper. It happened at a soccer match in Belgium. While we have absolutely no idea how much toilet paper this actually is, let’s make a few calculations and take a guess. Let’s say this was one corner of Cleveland Browns’ First Energy Stadium,...

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BASEBALL: Burn on, big river. Burn on.

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• April 4th, 2014
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Cleveland, baseball, and Randy Newman are forever linked. Ever since Major League hit the big screen in 1989, Newman’s song “Burn on” (1972) has come to be synonymous with Cleveland, the Cleveland Indians, and the start of summer. For us and our responsibility to protect Lake Erie, it means...

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PHOTO: Eyes playing tricks? Why clean treated water looks darker on mobile maps

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• April 2nd, 2014
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You never know what you’ll find on Google Maps. Like an image that looks like a wastewater treatment plant spewing something unnatural into a Great Lake. Robert saw this today and asked us: @neorsd hey what’s this coming out of your plant? I’m sure it’s safe for the fish...

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INFOGRAPHIC: Could Captain America use a manhole cover as his shield?

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• April 2nd, 2014
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It’s not made of vibranium, but could a manhole cover keep Cap protected?Original Captain America rendering—without the manhole cover—by R. Meinerding. The latest Captain America movie is big news in Cleveland, and particularly big news with us at the Sewer District. So that led us to an obvious question:...

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PIC: This accidental image could not have been better.

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• April 1st, 2014
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Jerry Mach, one of our Sewer System Maintenance & Operation team members, needed to snap a photograph during a recent sewer inspection. When he did, he didn’t realize he had accidentally changed the camera settings to black-and-white. The awesome result is an eerie but revealing image of the infrastructure...

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APRIL 1: Why we’re not fooling today. #CleanWaterIsNoJoke

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• April 1st, 2014
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We live for potty puns. They help us make complex projects and overlooked services something relevant and interesting to many of you. But on this April Fool’s Day, we’re stepping back to look at the big picture. Hundreds of millions of Americans live with the comfort of clean water...

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BASEBALL: Drain delay as sewer backups, storms at Oakland Coliseum wash out exhibition game

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• March 31st, 2014
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Image via anywheresports.com Maybe they should move the tarp from the field in Oakland into the clubhouse bathrooms. In an endless flow of opportunities to connect clean-water news to current events, today we take you to Oakland, California where the Cleveland Indians will open the 2014 season against the...

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#neorsdGREEN: 4 cities making green part of the plan, and we’re one of them.

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• March 28th, 2014
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As the country has turned its attention to green solutions to infrastructure challenges in recent years, there are cities and regions whose green work is already underway and blazing a trail others can follow. In a new document released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Northeast Ohio is...

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