tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26037117623096929362012-05-25T10:44:58.857-04:00Official blog of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer DistrictNortheast Ohio Regional Sewer Districthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14426572140033700241noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603711762309692936.post-9964700443925678192012-05-25T10:44:00.004-04:002012-05-25T10:44:58.864-04:002012-05-25T10:44:58.864-04:00

Beginning the week of June 4, Sewer District contractors will begin the latest phase of Euclid Creek Tunnel construction along Lakeshore Boulevard from East 156th Street to Sycamore Street. The work includes open-cut construction methods in which a trench is dug along Lakeshore Boulevard, new sewer pipe is installed, the trench is filled, and the road is repaired. To minimize traffic

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Our Euclid Creek Tunnel is one of several huge projects underway on the east side of Cleveland. This image we posted on Pinterest has the latest information and a fine overview to give you the project basics. For copies of this information as a handy information card, send us a request at community at neorsd dot org. Source: Uploaded by user via Wally on Pinterest

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"We’ll continue to work on this until we exhaust all our leads. We are working with other entities as well. Cleveland Metroparks, Ohio EPA, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, everyone is working together to try and figure this one out." Sewer District Director of Watershed Programs Frank Greenland spoke to several media outlets this afternoon regarding the ongoing investigation of the possible

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The Collinwood Observer ran a feature on our Euclid Creek Tunnel earlier this month following a pair of neighborhood meetings about the project. As promised, we previously have shared a link about the tunnel's construction along Lakeshore, but the map above is a better full-screen resolution for reference. Columnist Nan Kennedy closed her story with important information based on residents'

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We love sharing clean-water fun with students of all ages, and we're even more excited when classes share their experiences in return. Eighth-grade teacher Rachel Smith received some of our coloring books, posters, and pencils last month, and this morning we smiled reading her email: Thank you so much for all the wonderful classroom materials you gave me, my co-teacher, and all my students.

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Piece by piece, the gigantic tunnel digger that will burrow the underground route for the Sewer District's Euclid Creek Tunnel is arriving on site in Cleveland. The behemoth is known as a tunnel boring machine, or TBM, and it will take several truckloads and a few more weeks to assemble. The photo above shows the five primary pieces of the cutterhead. They will be welded together to create a

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The Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District, with jurisdiction over Cuyahoga County, today rejected a second round of appeals from groups opposing the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Stormwater Management Program. The initial appeals were dismissed March 30. Appeals for Reconsideration were filed by both communities opposing the regional program—Beachwood, Bedford Heights,

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If you're driving east on I-90 and pass the construction to your right just before the Lakeshore Boulevard exit, you'll see a clearing and a massive amount of construction. That's the site of several Sewer District projects, including a huge tunnel shaft, electrical substation, and a new pump station, all designed to help reduce pollution in Lake Erie. The Euclid Creek Tunnel is well underway,

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Your Sewer District partnered with Drink Local. Drink Tap. along with the Cleveland Division of Water and other partners to help more than 200 local middle- and high-school students better understand the value of clean water and our own water resources. In celebration of World Water Day, DLDT coordinated a march from Cleveland City Hall to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

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As part of the Euclid Creek Tunnel project, the Sewer District will be constructing the Lakeshore Boulevard Consolidation Sewer along Lakeshore Boulevard from the Easterly treatment plant to East 150th Street. The Lakeshore Boulevard Consolidation Sewer project will include the installation of monitors at the foundations of various residences along the project route. These monitors will be

Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer Districthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14426572140033700241noreply@blogger.com014614 Lakeshore Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44110, USA41.571696556016626 -81.5805244445800841.56872655601663 -81.58545994458008 41.57466655601662 -81.57558894458008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603711762309692936.post-37702929467183421362012-03-01T14:23:00.002-05:002012-03-01T14:23:17.345-05:002012-03-01T14:23:17.345-05:00

Timothy J. DeGeeter, Mayor of Parma, has been appointed to the Sewer District's Board of Trustees by Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. In addition, Ronald D. Sulik and Walter O’Malley have been re-appointed for additional five-year terms by the Suburban Council of Governments and City of Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson, respectively. These changes are effective today, when they were

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Beginning the week of February 27 through the first week of April, Sewer District contractor Nerone & Sons, Inc. will work around the clock on a construction project at Wolf Creek near the intersection of Henry Street and Southern Avenue. The work will help reduce pollution by capturing more flow in the Mill Creek Tunnel system during heavy rainstorms. Due to the nature of this work—preventing

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On February 15, 2012, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Thomas J. Pokorny issued an opinion in the case of Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District vs. Bath Township, Ohio, et al. (CV-10-714945). This is the second ruling from Judge Pokorny reaffirming the Sewer District’s authority to implement a regional Stormwater Management Program; the first ruling occurred in April 2011. The

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Our Facebook page followers saw a question we posted earlier today: Wondering how Super Bowl viewing affects water usage—would usage surge during halftime or post-game when viewers hit the restroom?—we asked a superintendent for a flow report for last Sunday. We didn't see a game-to-flow correlation in our Westerly plant's report, but you'll notice little surges throughout the day (marked by

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Our monthly email blast—environotes—has been around for several years in several forms. First, it was a limited distribution print newsletter, then an email newsletter, and now a collection of the month's social-media highlights from your Sewer District. At one time, we focused on public-officials news, then shifted to Sewer District accomplishments, and most recently widened the view to

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Administered by partners at the Cleveland Housing Network, Wastewater Affordability Program applications are now available as a PDF download from CHN's website. Link to CHN's utility assistance programs Download a Wastewater Affordability Program PDF application Learn more about our cost-saving programs The Sewer District's wastewater affordability program—along with expansion of its

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Caption: "Westerly sewage treatment plant, West 58th and Lakefront, inside oflaboratory showing arrangement and equipment. View: Looking north." A closeup of the gentleman and equipment on the right.

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There are no "normal" business hours because, well, people are doing their business at all hours of the day. Many residents may not realize our three wastewater treatment plants—Southerly in Cuyahoga Heights, and Easterly and Westerly in Cleveland—are operated by staff working around the clock to treat wastewater and protect public health and the environment. Most of our support services

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How are we keeping our Great Lake great and controlling costs? We take our customers' investment in our work very seriously. Clean water protects the health and safety of all the citizens in our region, and we are proud of the work we do. But we understand customers want to be sure we are managing their rates efficiently, especially in the first year of a rate increase. Here are several

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As part of its plan to reduce the amount raw sewage entering local waterways, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District submitted its green infrastructure plan [PDF] to the United States Environmental Protection Agency yesterday. The plan is a component of the Project Clean Lake consent decree signed between the Sewer District and the federal government which details the long-term program for

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On January 1, 2012, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's rates and billing structure is changing. Here is a summary to help you better understand the changes. No more minimum charge Before 2012, users were charged a for 1,000 cubic feet of water (1 MCF, or 7,480 gallons) of water consumption, even if their actual usage was lower. This year, that minimum charge is eliminated and replaced

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Customers, construction, communication, community, what made our list of top headlines in 2011? Here's what we posted, but let us know what you think we may have missed.

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When Wally Waterdrop posted his first tweet in 2009, we didn't know how we might use Twitter, or Facebook, or YouTube for our customers' benefit. Our top tweets reveal a few ways in which we hope our social media efforts made a difference. Check it out on Storify.

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Our Ask Us! page recently received the following email from a customer who spends several months a year out west: I spend the winter in Arizona. I shut my water off but I still have sewer charges. Is there any way of avoiding these charges since i'm not using my water for almost 8 months? It's a good question. The direct answer is "No," but I'll quickly follow-up by saying, "but here's what

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Scanned from a series of glass-plate slides from the early 1900s, this 1902 blueprint shows a schematic for a primary filter.

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