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“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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Big news for the CLE from the RNC today as Cleveland and Dallas are the final two cities in the running for the 2016 Republican National Convention. Whatever your political leanings might be, an event like this could bring much attention to Cleveland in a very positive way. Of...
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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...
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Cleveland, baseball, and Randy Newman are forever linked. Ever since Major League hit the big screen in 1989, Newman’s song “Burn on” (1972) has come to be synonymous with Cleveland, the Cleveland Indians, and the start of summer. For us and our responsibility to protect Lake Erie, it means...
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Midges, mayflies, muckelheads, this can all be very confusing. And all of them can be very annoying. We’d like to help clarify a bit of the current bug conundrum. Let’s start here: There are midges (also known as muckleheads), and there are mayflies. They are different, but they’re both...
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