Performance audit affirms new business practices are on target

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• July 28th, 2011
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Today, the Auditor of State released a performance audit for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District which praised many business practices instituted since 2007 and recommended further improvements. The purpose of the audit, which was initiated by the Sewer District, was to examine practices instituted under Julius Ciaccia, who...

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District proposes changes to stormwater code as required by recent court ruling

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• July 25th, 2011
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The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is proposing modifications to Title V, the section of the District’s code addressing the Regional Stormwater Management Program. Download the proposed changes The District is proposing changes at Chapters 6, 8, and 10. Changes in Chapters 6 and 10 are required by...

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Swimming advisories lifted at Edgewater, Villa Angela, Euclid

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• July 21st, 2011
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The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is lifting swimming advisories at Edgewater Beach, Villa Angela Beach and Euclid Beach. Water samples analyzed today indicate good water quality at all three beaches. The advisories were posted as a result of several combined sewer overflow (CSO) events at the beaches on...

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Swimming advisories at Edgewater, Villa Angela and Euclid beaches

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• July 19th, 2011
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Today, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District posted public advisories at Edgewater Beach, Villa Angela Beach and Euclid Beach. The advisories were posted as a result of several combined sewer overflow (CSO) events at the beaches. These overflows discharged raw sewage into Euclid Creek and Lake Erie during today’s...

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Turning pollution into solutions? It’s worth it.

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• July 15th, 2011
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Your sewer bill helps us reduce the amount of pollution entering our Great Lake. This :30 spot is airing on local media outlets throughout the summer to help customers understand their investment. More videos…

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Brown, Sulik, DePiero are re-elected for 2011-2012

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• July 7th, 2011
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(L to R) DePiero, Brown, and Sulik are sworn in at this afternoon’s Board of Trustees meeting Today, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Board of Trustees re-elected Darnell Brown as President, Ronald D. Sulik as Vice President and Mayor Dean DePiero as Secretary for the 2011-2012 year. Brown...

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It’s official: CSO consent decree is signed

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• July 7th, 2011
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The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s combined sewer overflow long-term control plan (CSO LTCP) consent decree was approved by the US District Court on June 30 and filed on the Court’s docket today. The terms of the consent decree are now legally binding on the District. Known as Project Clean Lake, the...

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Our aging sewers: Complex, creative, critical, and crumbling

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• June 29th, 2011
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From the archives: This is a clip of a free lecture delivered by Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland March 23, 2010, sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.

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Now apply for summer sprinkling program online

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• June 23rd, 2011
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Yesterday, our Customer Service department launched its new online application for the summer sprinkling rate-saving program. View the form. The Sewer District has offered the summer sprinkling program since 1993 to benefit residential customers and, until now, only application cards have been use to process requests. The new online...

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Question: Green roofs in Philly, so how about Cleveland?

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• June 6th, 2011
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Several tweets came across our “stormwater” feed over the last week discussing the City of Philadelphia’s $2 billion green-infrastructure stormwater control plan. … The news prompted a great Facebook question, asking whether our Regional Stormwater Management program would offer a “subsidy for green roofs,” similar to the credits we...

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