Posted by John Gonzalez August 6 storm causes combined sewer outfall to discharge into Lake Erie Cleveland (August 6, 2019) – This afternoon, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District posted a public advisory at Edgewater Beach; the advisory was posted as a result of a combined sewer overflow (CSO) event at the beach...
Read More Posted by John Gonzalez Storms around midnight August 6 cause combined sewer outfall to discharge into Lake Erie Cleveland (August 7, 2018) – Early this morning, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District posted a public advisory at Edgewater Beach; the advisory was posted as a result of a combined sewer overflow (CSO) event at the...
Read More Posted by John Gonzalez Study says Lake Erie’s outlook is more grim than great, but details show importance of work underway in fight for better future If you are as concerned about the future of Lake Erie as we are, you may be alarmed by headlines surrounding this week’s international report on the...
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Posted by Jared Shepherd 
“We expected this year’s bloom to be a 9 (out of 10). It was actually a 10.5.” That was how Jeffery Reutter, Ph.D. introduced his November 11 City Club presentation on Lake Erie’s hazardous algal blooms, a challenge that has affected water quality in recent years. But a mystery...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd First tunnel under Project Clean Lake now complete, sets benchmark for future cost-saving opportunities Today, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Board of Trustees passed Resolution 238-15, a Final Adjusting Change Order, for the Euclid Creek Tunnel. As a result of outstanding project management, this contract will close $3,602,637.77...
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Senator Marco Rubio sips water during the GOP response to the 2013 State of the Union address. We don’t often talk politics. We talk water. But with the first 2016 Republican Debate taking place this Thursday right here in Cleveland, hey let’s talk both. Water could very well take...
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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...
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When meteorologist Mark Johnson posted a radar image yesterday of a cloud of mayflies swarming over Lake Erie, it was almost intimidating, like something you’d see in a B-movie trailer foretelling a fight scene between mutated bugs and a clan of outmatched but gutsy Clevelanders. One move that came...
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So that blob on the weather radar? It’s not a storm. It’s a swarm. WEWS Chief Meteorologist Mark “Still not a foul” Johnson shared this photo via Twitter last night: Yes… Those are millions of mayflies showing up on Power of 5 Radar. Details: http://t.co/t2q8MReSV6 @MarkJWeather pic.twitter.com/quJaaqcrmj — WEWS...
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Is the toxic algae that led to Toledo’s three-day “DO NOT DRINK” declaration this summer a threat to Cleveland in the future? While Cleveland’s lake conditions differ from those of the western Lake Erie basin, when our Great Lake is threatened, all of its neighbors need to take notice....
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