NEWS: Appellate Court rejects stormwater-program opposition’s second round of appeals

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• April 11th, 2012
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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...

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PROJECTS: Glimpse of pump station at Bratenahl site [Architect rendering]

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• April 10th, 2012
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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,...

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EVENT: World Water Day march turns students’ attention to lake, resources

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• March 22nd, 2012
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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...

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NOTICE: Lakeshore Blvd. sewer project preparations underway

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• March 8th, 2012
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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...

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TRUSTEES: Mayor DeGeeter sworn in, O’Malley and Sulik reappointed

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• March 1st, 2012
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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...

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NOTICE: 24-hour construction in Garfield Heights to repair culvert, reduce pollution

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• February 24th, 2012
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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...

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STORMWATER: Court rules program can move forward, charge fee for services

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• February 16th, 2012
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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...

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TRIVIA: The answer behind the surge

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• February 10th, 2012
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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...

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QUESTION: What would you like to see?

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• January 31st, 2012
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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...

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ARCHIVES: Lab, 1940

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• January 20th, 2012
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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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