Posted by Jared Shepherd In 1914, Australians apparently took their yard work very seriously. This ad for Dunlop Garden Hoses as seen on Wikipedia takes us back to a different time in fashion. But it also reminds us of two points relevant today. First, if you have a lawn or garden and water...
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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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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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Next time you pass a manhole cover in the street, think of it as a cast-iron canvas and your design could last a lifetime. As the Sewer District prepares new green infrastructure and Project Clean Lake construction, we are offering northeast Ohioans the chance to design the cast-iron manhole...
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If this is what it looks like under your kitchen sink, there has to be a better way. Better for you, better for our water, and better for the environment. From eco-friendly cleaning solutions, to disposal tips for those trash items that don’t belong on your curb, we have...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd Woah that’s a lot of toilet paper. It happened at a soccer match in Belgium. While we have absolutely no idea how much toilet paper this actually is, let’s make a few calculations and take a guess. Let’s say this was one corner of Cleveland Browns’ First Energy Stadium,...
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Cleveland, baseball, and Randy Newman are forever linked. Ever since Major League hit the big screen in 1989, Newman’s song “Burn on” (1972) has come to be synonymous with Cleveland, the Cleveland Indians, and the start of summer. For us and our responsibility to protect Lake Erie, it means...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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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It’s not made of vibranium, but could a manhole cover keep Cap protected?Original Captain America rendering—without the manhole cover—by R. Meinerding. The latest Captain America movie is big news in Cleveland, and particularly big news with us at the Sewer District. So that led us to an obvious question:...
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Jerry Mach, one of our Sewer System Maintenance & Operation team members, needed to snap a photograph during a recent sewer inspection. When he did, he didn’t realize he had accidentally changed the camera settings to black-and-white. The awesome result is an eerie but revealing image of the infrastructure...
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