Posted by Jared Shepherd Timothy J. DeGeeter, Mayor of Parma, has been appointed to the Sewer District‘s Board of Trustees by Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. In addition, Ronald D. Sulik and Walter O’Malley have been re-appointed for additional five-year terms by the Suburban Council of Governments and City of Cleveland Mayor Frank...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd Beginning the week of February 27 through the first week of April, Sewer District contractor Nerone & Sons, Inc. will work around the clock on a construction project at Wolf Creek near the intersection of Henry Street and Southern Avenue. The work will help reduce pollution by capturing more...
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On February 15, 2012, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Thomas J. Pokorny issued an opinion in the case of Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District vs. Bath Township, Ohio, et al. (CV-10-714945). This is the second ruling from Judge Pokorny reaffirming the Sewer District’s authority to implement a...
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Our Facebook page followers saw a question we posted earlier today: Wondering how Super Bowl viewing affects water usage—would usage surge during halftime or post-game when viewers hit the restroom?—we asked a superintendent for a flow report for last Sunday. We didn’t see a game-to-flow correlation in our Westerly...
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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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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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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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How are we keeping our Great Lake great and controlling costs? We take our customers’ investment in our work very seriously. Clean water protects the health and safety of all the citizens in our region, and we are proud of the work we do. But we understand customers want...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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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