LEGEND: Story of toilet surge during big game is a lasting #SewerBowl urban myth

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• January 30th, 2014
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MetLife Stadium, the site of Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday, February 2, 2014. Courtesy Wikipedia. The story goes something like this. Just after the Super Bowl’s second quarter, millions of fans rush to their bathrooms for relief, leading to a tremendous flush-induced surge in sewer systems across the country, large...

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PIC: Sure, some Olympic sports are synchronized, but this? [#h2olympics]

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• January 22nd, 2014
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Seeing double in the Gentlemen’s Loo at the Olympic Biathlon Centre #Sochi pic.twitter.com/a1HoilU9zn — Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) January 20, 2014 It’s fitting to promote unity at the Olympic games, but this might not be what many expected. BBC’s Steve Rosenberg shared this photo of a men’s restroom at one...

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FUN: More proof headline writers love wastewater-treatment stories

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• January 17th, 2014
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Well played, KTOO.

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MEDIA: Golden Globes red carpet soaked with sewage. Please stop snickering.

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• January 13th, 2014
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Last night’s Golden Globes red carpet included a cameo appearance no one expected: Water. On Sunday afternoon, Ryan Seacrest tweeted a photo of a flooded red carpet, caused by either a sprinkler system malfunction or a sewage leak. huge water leak on #goldenglobes red carpet…Bev Hills fire trying to...

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PIC: You never know what creatures you’ll find in the sludge

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• January 11th, 2014
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Image by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District O the wonderful world under the microscope. Our Biologist Carrie Millward sent us this image of a non-biting midge larvae she found in a sample of solid material (sludge) in our treatment process. They look scary, but they’re common in wastewater. As...

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WOW: Bubbling tanks, frigid temps result in wondrous icy landscape

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• January 7th, 2014
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Well that’s not something we see every day. These open-air aeration tanks inject air bubbles into the wastewater during the treatment process at our Southerly plant, but this event is something rarely seen before. Here’s what the tanks look like in normal conditions (left image), bubbling and swirling to...

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WATCH: 5-year-old builds wastewater treatment plant model out of Lego, puts whatever you built to shame

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• December 30th, 2013
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Wally is five years old and he built a wastewater treatment plant out of Lego. Really, it’s quite impressive. That and his narrated tour of the colorfully snapped-together facility is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Not something I’d want to step on with...

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VIDEO: 1928 school film shares how to treat sewage, how to set rat traps, and how not to catch malaria, typhoid, or the bubonic plague

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• December 5th, 2013
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Throwback Thursday is an opportunity to harken back to a time when we used the words “hence” and “typhoid” in daily American conversation. The 4-minute clip above is from a 20-minute 1928 educational silent film called “Health and Hygiene” which focused on the causes of common diseases and their...

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#h2olloween / LIST: 5 scary-looking microscopic wastewater creepy-crawlies

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• October 17th, 2013
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Black cats, haunted houses, things that go bump in the night, none of these Halloween mainstays evoke the level of fear that dirty water should. We asked our Analytical Services staff to share some of the scariest creatures they find thriving in the wastewater treatment process. Here are their...

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VIDEO: Follow the flow beyond the drain

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• October 2nd, 2013
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We have a few “Where does it go?” videos of our own, but this one from The Value of Water Coalition might be a new fave of ours. Our treatment process is very similar, but we provide a different method of disinfection. Still, Walter the Water Droplet and our...

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