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EVENT: Sewer University #SewerU now enrolling, your 101 course for Northeast Ohio’s sewer history and water future

EVENT: Sewer University #SewerU now enrolling, your 101 course for Northeast Ohio’s sewer history and water future

VIEW THE SLIDEDECK. If you missed it, you can register for our next SewerU January 26. All participants graduate sewer cum laude with a Business major and a minor in puns. Have you ever wondered where “it” goes in Northeast Ohio? If so, register for our first ever Sewer University (#SewerU) Tuesday, November 10 from ...

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TRENDS: No, #Sharknado3 would not affect Great Lakes, but raining sea lampreys would be a thing of nightmares

TRENDS: No, #Sharknado3 would not affect Great Lakes, but raining sea lampreys would be a thing of nightmares

Despite a sketchy 1954 report of a bull-shark attack on Lake Michigan, fears of a Great Lakes Sharknado is nothing to keep you up at night. But could any Great Lakes monster rain from the sky in a so-bad-it’s-good made-for-SyFy-channel movie? Our investigators named one. “I would say the sea lamprey,” said Supervisor of Environmental ...

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PROJECTS: About the Fairhill/MLK Green Ambassador Project in Cleveland

PROJECTS: About the Fairhill/MLK Green Ambassador Project in Cleveland

Known as the Fairhill-MLK Green Infrastructure Ambassador Project on the northeast corner of Fairhill Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Cleveland, this functional and aesthetic project will control stormwater and reduce the amount of water reaching the combined sewer system. Green infrastructure includes a range of stormwater control measures—plant/soil systems, permeable pavement or ...

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UPDATE: Storm clean-up, costs, communities, and why a regional #StormwaterProgram is critical

UPDATE: Storm clean-up, costs, communities, and why a regional #StormwaterProgram is critical

Storm debris clogs the Cuyahoga River under Alexander Road in Valley View May 13, 2014. Could $20 million in inaccessible funds have helped local communities respond to storm damage following Northeast Ohio’s torrential downpour earlier this week? That’s a question we raised here May 13. Communities are facing storm clean-up challenges while $20 million sits ...

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

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

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 with the series using the hashtag ...

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#CIFF38: Silence your phones during the movie, and don’t tweet from the bathroom.

#CIFF38: Silence your phones during the movie, and don’t tweet from the bathroom.

@CIFF @wallywaterdrop gr8 partnerships yield gr8 results (& dry phones) Ty @neorsd for sponsoring gr8est film fest pic.twitter.com/v7VvJwSDL5 — joecimperman (@joecimperman) April 11, 2013 The Cleveland International Film Festival returns today, and with 93,000+ admissions last year, we know all sorts of eyes will be focused on our city—and thousands of visitors will be making ...

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SUPER BOWL: How does infrastructure play into the Big Game? #SewerBowl will live-tweet the flow facts

SUPER BOWL: How does infrastructure play into the Big Game? #SewerBowl will live-tweet the flow facts

A recent survey shows 60% of Super Bowl viewers plan to use a mobile device while watching the big game. While we haven’t commissioned a [Dr. Evil style air quotes] “sur-vey” [end air quotes], our intuition tells us 100% of Super Bowl viewers also will either use the bathroom, run a faucet, or flush a ...

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EDUCATION: Bathroom signage to promote thinking twice about sustainability? They’re not wastes of time, they’re #StallTactics.

EDUCATION: Bathroom signage to promote thinking twice about sustainability? They’re not wastes of time, they’re #StallTactics.

Statistics show we use the restroom about seven times every day. That means public restrooms get a lot of use, and based on the amount of wastewater we treat every day, we know that from experience. In 2013, your Sewer District found some unique opportunities to educate and communicate in the very place where our ...

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CRAFTS: Crochet a miniature toilet, because well c’mon look at it, it’s adorable.

CRAFTS: Crochet a miniature toilet, because well c’mon look at it, it’s adorable.

A holiday lunch at our Administration offices ended with one of our managers receiving a crocheted mini toilet, handmade by one of our colleagues, Marina. Um yes please. #Adorable #Weird, #ButAdorable pic.twitter.com/mfVtPR9E0M — Spokesdrop, NEORSD (@wallywaterdrop) December 14, 2013 We think Marina made it without a pattern, which makes us love it even more, but ...

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EVENT: One journey ends, another begins as Mackenzie will make her way back to the surface

EVENT: One journey ends, another begins as Mackenzie will make her way back to the surface

  Mac’s on her way back to the surface starting Monday. More than one year ago, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s tunnel boring machine, named “Mackenzie,” began excavating the Euclid Creek Tunnel. Mackenzie has successfully mined and lined 18,000 feet of 24-foot diameter tunnel 200 feet below ground, and her work is complete ahead ...

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PIC: Just your normal everyday swarm of bugs so thick you can see it on radar

PIC: Just your normal everyday swarm of bugs so thick you can see it on radar

Courtesy Ryan Wichman, WTOL Toledo This is not a thunderstorm warning. It’s not a weather alert or special report. It’s just bugs. Lots and lots…and lots…of (harmless, but yes annoying) bugs over Lake Erie near Toledo. @NotoriousWojo tweeted this image last night from Ryan Wichman of WTOL Toledo which shows a swarm of midges (aka ...

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HOLLYWOOD: Here’s our pitch, 4 films, 4 genres, 1 common theme: Clean water. And us.

HOLLYWOOD: Here’s our pitch, 4 films, 4 genres, 1 common theme: Clean water. And us.

From superheroes to sports dramas, Hollywood has made Cleveland home this summer and we’re loving it. Sure, we offered a plant tour to Captain America and guests (the offer still stands, BTW), but it got us thinking, “Would Hollywood find our unsung work worthy of the silver screen?” To get that conversation started, we wanted ...

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PUP: #DogsCantFlush, but they need more help than that.

PUP: #DogsCantFlush, but they need more help than that.

Meet Hank. He’s a #blueheeler… Same color as me! Want to help @clevelandapl help PUPs? 216.566.PETS. #DogsCantFlush twitter.com/wallywaterdrop… — Spokesdrop, NEORSD (@wallywaterdrop) May 10, 2013 A group of Sewer District volunteers are taking calls at Q104’s and Cleveland APL’s Pledge For Pets Radiothon today, an event we’ve supported for several years in connection with our ...

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GREEN: Paving the way, but with less pavement

GREEN: Paving the way, but with less pavement

Consider it a two-for-one deal. One of our latest green projects is nearing completion in University Circle, a Courtyard by Marriott parking lot that will reduce stormwater runoff and cut sewer contributions by more than one million gallons per year. The work is a Project Clean Lake green-infrastructure project because it will reduce combined sewer ...

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SLIDESHARE: How and why @neorsd got social

SLIDESHARE: How and why @neorsd got social

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. It gives the past, present, and future of social media’s role in our communication efforts, and even includes a few cautionary tales for social-media newcomers. You ...

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