Posted by Jared Shepherd 
Many of us are thankful for our pets, but this year, we at the Sewer District were glad to contribute to two happy endings that saved the lives of two very special animals. Jenni, a two-foot-long alligator, and Rosco, a German Shepherd/Rottweiler mix pup, were both rescued by quick...
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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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This two-foot-long American alligator—affectionately named Jenni—was rescued from Big Creek in Cleveland last Thursday. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo picked her up this morning and will care for her as part of the zoo’s outreach program. See you later, alligator. “Jenni,” the alligator rescued by a Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer...
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Today, crews from the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District rescued an alligator from the shallow waters of Big Creek. A surveyor saw the reptile in the creek near a sewer outfall and alerted Sewer District crews who were conducting maintenance on the agency’s Jennings Road Pump Station. In an...
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Wind speed, rainfall, wave height, temperature and more data will be collected soon using a new weather-monitoring station being installed at Wildwood Marina in Cleveland. A Sewer District maintenance crew was on site this morning attaching a solar-powered monitor to a 20-foot-tall pole positioned above the marina breakwall. The...
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Water flows downhill, but sometimes gravity needs a little help. When a City of Cleveland pump station at Mary Avenue and W. 3 St. went down earlier this month, wastewater flow could not be properly routed to the Sewer District’s interceptor sewer responsible for carrying the flow to the...
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