Posted by Jared Shepherd 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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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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(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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd 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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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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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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd Today, Trustees of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District voted to accept the recommendation to increase sewer rates effective January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2016. The dissenting votes were Parma Mayor Dean DePiero and Middleburg Heights Mayor Gary Starr. Sewer District bills are based on water consumption of...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd It’s changing, but don’t think of it as new and improved. See it as rebranded and expanded. This summer, the Sewer District‘s small business enterprise program, formerly known as SBE, is being rebranded the Business Opportunity Program with a wider focus on minority-owned, women-owned, and small businesses. “Our goal...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd During April and May, six public meetings provided customers opportunities to hear and react to the Sewer District’s proposed 2012-2016 rate schedule and new affordability program. More than 490 residents attended, and a summary report will be provided to District Trustees this week. The report summarizes the attendance figures,...
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