WEIRD: Making sense of the smells of wastewater treatment [#cwc5K]

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• June 13th, 2014
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If you thought the smell of victory was unique, you’ve never visited a wastewater treatment plant. Our Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center is hosting the Clean Water Classic 5K run/walk for charity this Saturday, so all of our guests will have a chance to smell both. It has raised some...

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HISTORY: How a dying river saved our lives.

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• June 12th, 2014
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Two men wearing life jackets on a small boat on Lake Erie, 1976. Both the boat and the men are covered in oil polluting Lake Erie. Image courtesy of Cleveland State University Library Division of Special Collections. When the oozing Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, consider that it...

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LOOK: What a 5K course through a wastewater treatment plant looks like. #cwc5K

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• June 9th, 2014
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If you’ve ever wondered… what the inside of a 288-acre wastewater treatment plant looks like, or what the five-kilometer course will be like for our Clean Water Classic 5K charity run/walk this weekend, or where you can listen to Bonnie Tyler’s Holding out for a hero to pump you...

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VIDEO: “Stinks, too.”

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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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PIC: Two eggs you should be glad you didn’t get in your Easter basket

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• April 22nd, 2014
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Maybe the Easter bunny knows we work on holidays. Could these really be Easter eggs inside one of our treatment processes? Could they have survived the journey through the sewer system? Christen Wood snapped this pic at our Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant on Sunday. These are first-stage settling tanks...

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ENTERTAINMENT: #Watermen series will take reality TV to a new low, and it looks filthy.

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• April 15th, 2014
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Reality television is about to hit a new low: Sewers, and the team who keeps things flowing. United Utilities—one of the UK’s largest water and wastewater service providers—will star in a six-part documentary series called “Watermen: A dirty business” on BBC2 starting today. United Utilities will be tweeting along...

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Wedding at a wastewater treatment plant? Hyped headline, but points for creativity.

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• April 14th, 2014
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Oh for goodness sake. A beautiful education center near a wastewater treatment plant mentions the phrase “wedding reception” and suddenly the media thinks they’re inviting couples to say their nuptials waist-deep in poo. See for yourself. King County in Washington operates the Brightwater Center, an education complex and community...

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PHOTO: Eyes playing tricks? Why clean treated water looks darker on mobile maps

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• April 2nd, 2014
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You never know what you’ll find on Google Maps. Like an image that looks like a wastewater treatment plant spewing something unnatural into a Great Lake. Robert saw this today and asked us: @neorsd hey what’s this coming out of your plant? I’m sure it’s safe for the fish...

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APRIL 1: Why we’re not fooling today. #CleanWaterIsNoJoke

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• April 1st, 2014
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We live for potty puns. They help us make complex projects and overlooked services something relevant and interesting to many of you. But on this April Fool’s Day, we’re stepping back to look at the big picture. Hundreds of millions of Americans live with the comfort of clean water...

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PIC: “Water bear” sounds cuddly, actually is pretty terrifying.

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• March 21st, 2014
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A color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of a water bear. Image: Eye of Science/Science Source Billions of nearly indestructible microscopic organisms capable of surviving the extremes of outer space, freezing temperatures, and radiation. Sleep tight. Wired recently ran a great story about the water bear, scientifically known as the tardigrade,...

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