Posted by Jared Shepherd When a 90+ year old water main broke under the campus of UCLA yesterday afternoon, spewing up to 10 million gallons of water in the air and down streets like waterfalls, it looked like this. USA Today reported that in some places, up to seven feet (!) of water...
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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...
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...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd Image via anywheresports.com Maybe they should move the tarp from the field in Oakland into the clubhouse bathrooms. In an endless flow of opportunities to connect clean-water news to current events, today we take you to Oakland, California where the Cleveland Indians will open the 2014 season against the...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd As the country has turned its attention to green solutions to infrastructure challenges in recent years, there are cities and regions whose green work is already underway and blazing a trail others can follow. In a new document released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Northeast Ohio is...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd People have asked me what surprised me the most here in Sochi. It’s this. Without question … it’s … THIS. pic.twitter.com/1jj05FNdCP — Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) February 4, 2014 Journalists covering the Olympics are tweeting their experiences as they have arrived in Sochi this week. Two words: Not good. Despite...
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A recent survey shows 60% of Super Bowl viewers plan to use a mobile device while watching the big game. While we haven’t commissioned a “sur-vey” , our intuition tells us 100% of Super Bowl viewers also will either use the bathroom,...
Read More Posted by Jared Shepherd Seeing double in the Gentlemen’s Loo at the Olympic Biathlon Centre #Sochi pic.twitter.com/a1HoilU9zn — Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) January 20, 2014 It’s fitting to promote unity at the Olympic games, but this might not be what many expected. BBC’s Steve Rosenberg shared this photo of a men’s restroom at one...
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