PHOTO: Rub a dub dub, four men in a President’s tub?

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• February 18th, 2013
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Of the many fun facts and statistics surrounding the history of presidential plumbing and the White House, one of our favorites is the tale of President William Howard Taft’s bath tub. President Taft’s nickname was “Big Bill” for a reason. At a weight of 330 pounds, his facilities required...

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VALENTINES DAY: You had me at h2o. #LoveCleanWater valentines we’d like to see.

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• February 14th, 2013
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If you want to send your own, check out our Wally Waterdrop’s Pinterest board. Or scroll to the bottom for a printable PDF. Or print your own! #LoveCleanWater printable valentines by Wally Waterdrop

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PIC: 10,000 elephants worth of ash

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• February 13th, 2013
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What better way to mark Ash Wednesday than with ashes? An ash lagoon, more specifically. In this image, crews are cleaning one of three ash lagoons at our Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center. These lagoons are the destination for ash resulting from our incineration process. You can see them in...

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VIDEO: Dead fish near our treatment plant? It’s nature and temperature, not pollution.

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• February 11th, 2013
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Are we poisoning fish by releasing polluted water into the Cuyahoga River? Contrary to the YouTube video’s inaccurate captions above, we are not. We were alerted to this video today, a clip that was posted to YouTube January 31 with the title, “NEORSD sewage kills fish in Cuyahoga River.”...

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LIST: Top 7-and-a-half ways wastewater treatment is like a romantic relationship

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• February 8th, 2013
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OK, it would be way too easy to make a J. Geils Band reference here when comparing romance to wastewater treatment, but there are far more similarities between cleaning sewage and finding that special someone than you may have expected. Here are a few. Don’t be afraid to confront...

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PIC: Mackenzie will soon be looking up at Lake Erie

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• February 6th, 2013
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Mackenzie’s knocking on Lake Erie’s door. The tunnel boring machine that is digging our Euclid Creek Tunnel project—an 18,000-foot journey 200 feet under Cleveland’s east side—is named Mackenzie. And in a few short weeks, the bed of Lake Erie will be 160 feet above her head. The photo above...

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NEWS: Sewage is new source of ski resort snow in Arizona

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• February 1st, 2013
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it… flow? Last month, an Arizona ski resort began making snow entirely from its most reliable water source: Water recycled from Flagstaff’s sewage. Wednesday’s Bloomberg story reads: The ski area near Flagstaff is the first in the U.S. to make snow entirely...

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#RAINMATTERS: Special workshop will welcome local TV weather personalities

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• January 31st, 2013
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This afternoon, we’ve invited local TV meteorologists to join us for a #RainMatters workshop. Chances of a stormwater education? 100 percent. With the help of WKYC Chief Meteorologist Betsy Kling, the Sewer District designed a workshop to present the history of and relationship between sewers and the regional stormwater...

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SLIDESHARE: How and why @neorsd got social

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• January 30th, 2013
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Why is the Sewer District using social media? Because you are. That’s the simple answer we’ve offered before, but we recently presented these slides at a professionals networking event. It gives the past, present, and future of social media’s role in our communication efforts, and even includes a few...

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NEWS: Happy birthday to loo, Crapper’s invention celebrates its 150th

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• January 23rd, 2013
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Here’s one birthday that’s a total crapper. Thomas J. Crapper, actually. January 13 marked the 150th birthday of plumber Thomas J. Crapper‘s invention, a one-piece pedestal for a flushing toilet that would revolutionize their operation—and sanitation in general. The Independent blogged about the birthday last week: …thanks to Thomas...

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