Posted by Jared Shepherd Mackenzie is the name of the huge tunnel digger that will burrow the route of the Euclid Creek Tunnel, a major piece of our Project Clean Lake efforts. Here are some of the stats about the project and the equipment. About the Euclid Creek Tunnel The Euclid Creek Tunnel...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd The cutterhead for Ohio’s largest tunnel boring machine, named “Mackenzie,” will begin its descent into Shaft 1 of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Euclid Creek Tunnel on Friday, June 1. That morning, public officials and local media professionals will visit the Sewer District’s construction site in Bratenahl for...
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Beginning the week of June 4, Sewer District contractors will begin the latest phase of Euclid Creek Tunnel construction along Lakeshore Boulevard from East 156th Street to Sycamore Street. The work includes open-cut construction methods in which a trench is dug along Lakeshore Boulevard, new sewer pipe is installed,...
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Our Euclid Creek Tunnel is one of several huge projects underway on the east side of Cleveland. This image we posted on Pinterest has the latest information and a fine overview to give you the project basics. For copies of this information as a handy information card, send us...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd “We’ll continue to work on this until we exhaust all our leads. We are working with other entities as well. Cleveland Metroparks, Ohio EPA, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, everyone is working together to try and figure this one out.” Sewer District Director of Watershed Programs Frank Greenland spoke...
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The Collinwood Observer ran a feature on our Euclid Creek Tunnel earlier this month following a pair of neighborhood meetings about the project. As promised, we previously have shared a link about the tunnel’s construction along Lakeshore, but the map above is a better full-screen resolution for reference. Columnist...
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We love sharing clean-water fun with students of all ages, and we’re even more excited when classes share their experiences in return. Eighth-grade teacher Rachel Smith received some of our coloring books, posters, and pencils last month, and this morning we smiled reading her email: Thank you so much...
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Piece by piece, the gigantic tunnel digger that will burrow the underground route for the Sewer District‘s Euclid Creek Tunnel is arriving on site in Cleveland. The behemoth is known as a tunnel boring machine, or TBM, and it will take several truckloads and a few more weeks to...
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The Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District, with jurisdiction over Cuyahoga County, today rejected a second round of appeals from groups opposing the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Stormwater Management Program. The initial appeals were dismissed March 30. Appeals for Reconsideration were filed by both communities opposing...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd ![PROJECTS: Glimpse of pump station at Bratenahl site [Architect rendering]](https://www.neorsd.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Exterior_01-280x200.jpg)
If you’re driving east on I-90 and pass the construction to your right just before the Lakeshore Boulevard exit, you’ll see a clearing and a massive amount of construction. That’s the site of several Sewer District projects, including a huge tunnel shaft, electrical substation, and a new pump station,...
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