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- September 10th, 2014
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Case No. 2013-1770 Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District v. Bath Township, Ohio, et al.
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- September 9th, 2014
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When one water professional calls out another water professional to a challenge based on buckets filled with the very essence of their work, the results are gonna be interesting. Cheers to DC Water‘s General Manager George Hawkins for accepting our director Ciaccia’s ice-bucket challenge as both men took the...
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- August 5th, 2014
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A major contributor to toxic algae threatening Lake Erie is phosphorus, a key component of agricultural fertilizers and a building block of life itself. While most of it flows to the lake from stormwater runoff, wastewater plants must monitor and manage phosphorus as it makes its way through the...
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- July 30th, 2014
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When a 90+ year old water main broke under the campus of UCLA yesterday afternoon, spewing up to 10 million gallons of water in the air and down streets like waterfalls, it looked like this. USA Today reported that in some places, up to seven feet (!) of water...
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- July 16th, 2014
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While snapping some new aerial photographs for an upcoming publication, photographer J. Quinn let the video camera roll providing us some great footage of our largest treatment plant, Southerly in Cuyahoga Heights.
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- July 7th, 2014
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John Corn, a US Navy and Marines veteran and one-year Sewer District employee, recently shared his story in an interview with Crain’s Cleveland Business at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair at the Cleveland Public Auditorium on June 26, 2014. “The most important thing is...
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- June 19th, 2014
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In this clip from a 1978 documentary, Cuyahoga, James Earl Jones’ booming voice tells the tale of the famous 1969 Cuyahoga River fire that turned national attention on the state of our environment and inspired action in Northeast Ohio and far beyond.
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- June 7th, 2014
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Anthony Body has been with us for several months and he recently went on a wastewater treatment plant tour with his co-workers. He grabbed his phone when he got to the bar screens, large racks that catch all kinds of floating debris that sewers carry into our treatment plant....
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- May 31st, 2014
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You never know what will make it through the sewers and into one of our three treatment plants. And every wastewater plant operator has a story to tell. When we asked Southerly Wastewater Plant Operator in Training Christen Wood what was the weirdest thing she’s seen, here’s what she...
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- May 7th, 2014
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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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