Posted by Jared Shepherd The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is lifting swimming advisories at Edgewater Beach, Villa Angela Beach and Euclid Beach. Water samples analyzed today indicate good water quality at all three beaches. The advisories were posted as a result of several combined sewer overflow (CSO) events at the beaches on July 19 due to heavy rains. ...
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“Go with the flow” has a meaning of its own. “Follow the flow” is going to get a little more interesting. May 11-15 marks the third year for Infrastructure Week, a national celebration of country’s infrastructure systems and the essential role they play in our economy. To celebrate Infrastructure Week 2015, the Northeast Ohio Regional ...
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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 THEY WANT YOU TO SEE.” It ...
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Assistant superintendent Dan Smith speaks to a group of Sewer District summer students and co-ops from a point high atop a trickling filter at the Westerly plant in Cleveland. Think of it as a water-cycle/career-prep roadtrip. The Sewer District calls it success@work. The District recently dedicated a day to providing its summer students with insight ...
Posted by John Gonzalez Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District history 1969-2021 1969 Cuyahoga River fire on June 22 focuses national attention on Cleveland’s pollution problems. August 1969 issue of TIME Magazine features the Cuyahoga River fire as the first article in a new environment column. 1970 Congress passes the National Environmental Policy Act. Ohio Water Pollution Control Board (predecessor ...
Posted by Jared Shepherd Our service area includes all or portions of the following communities. Three wastewater treatment plants (Easterly and Westerly in Cleveland, and Southerly in Cuyahoga Heights) serve more than one million residents in these cities. Bath Township Beachwood Bedford Bedford Heights Berea Bratenahl Brecksville Broadview Heights Brook Park Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights Boston Heights Cleveland Cleveland Heights ...
Posted by Jared Shepherd We offer resources to keep customers and residents informed of environmental events and water quality. Beach advisories | Predicting water quality during beach season Our Beach Reports predict water quality for local beaches between May 31 and October 1. Using the Ohio Nowcast system, these predictions inform beachgoers of recreational water quality predictions at Edgewater ...
Posted by Jared Shepherd We partnering with organizations, institutions and community leaders, getting involved with our neighborhoods, schools, and residents in an effort to keep our Great Lake great and our communities strong. Below are some of our current partnerships. Cleveland Metroparks In 2013, the Sewer District partnered with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and WKYC TV-3 to ...
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Interns spend a morning at Cleveland Metroparks Watershed Stewardship Center at West Creek. The District maintains partnerships with local organizations whose work to enhance quality of life in Northeast Ohio aligns with our own mission to protect water quality. By leveraging our partner resources, we broaden the public’s understanding of, and support for, our work. ...
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We penned 120 blog posts in 2013, highlighting projects, issues, progress and humor to help customers better understand our work. Here were some of our top stories and how we covered them. Thanks to Mike Uva for the recap. Mackenzie finishes big dig We celebrated our 1,500-ton Tunnel Boring Machine’s successful three-mile excavation of the ...
Posted by Jared Shepherd Today, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) Board of Trustees agreed to enter into a consent decree with the federal government, which details the long-term plan for reducing raw sewage overflows into the environment, by a 5-2 vote. Mayors Dean DePiero and Gary Starr cast dissenting votes. The $3 billion 25-year program will reduce ...
