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“16 reasons Cleveland is not as bad as you think”? We guess 16 is a fine place to start, but the list could go on and on, and there are a few glaring omissions. This week, Buzzfeed posted a fun piece with that title, noting examples like Charles Ramsey’s...
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Of the many fun facts and statistics surrounding the history of presidential plumbing and the White House, one of our favorites is the tale of President William Howard Taft’s bath tub. President Taft’s nickname was “Big Bill” for a reason. At a weight of 330 pounds, his facilities required...
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Who was she? We posted this image on our Facebook page in 2011 but had no other information on her at the time. No one in our sewer maintenance department could identify her, and little was known about the equipment it appeared she was using. It became a favorite...
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Expansion of our Easterly Wastewater Treatment Plant. April 5, 1932. Our history predates our creation. Make sense? This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Cleveland Regional Sewer District, which would later be renamed the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. But that doesn’t mean the area’s...
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Image by Robert Frank, 1955. Our student assistant Stephanie Harris uncovered a great bit of nostalgia recently when she included the phrase “drive-in theater” in a story about our Southerly wastewater treatment plant in Cuyahoga Heights. That’s right. Our current plant’s footprint covers a space that used to be...
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Scanned from a series of glass-plate slides from the early 1900s, this 1902 blueprint shows a schematic for a primary filter.
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Unidentified photo from NEORSD archives, circa 1909
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