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Sometimes we get a little emotional, a little romantic. Admittedly, not everyone has the ability to capture the true essence of their emotions in writing. Here, we pour out our hearts and encourage you to share these words of love for water with the ones you love. My dearest...
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Love and beauty are all around us—yes, even at treatment plants that process nearly 200 million gallons of wastewater every day. We offer a few of the photos of love and beauty we’ve captured at our facilities. Seen on the work site during construction of our Renewable Energy Facility....
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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Image by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District O the wonderful world under the microscope. Our Biologist Carrie Millward sent us this image of a non-biting midge larvae she found in a sample of solid material (sludge) in our treatment process. They look scary, but they’re common in wastewater. As...
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Well that’s not something we see every day. These open-air aeration tanks inject air bubbles into the wastewater during the treatment process at our Southerly plant, but this event is something rarely seen before. Here’s what the tanks look like in normal conditions (left image), bubbling and swirling to...
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We love hearing we’ve made an impact on a child’s life. Even more, we love seeing that impact represented in a fifth-grader’s drawn-by-hand-in-marker graph that proves a staggering 9,900% increase! In just 12 weeks! Can’t argue with statistics. It says right there: “amount of good things” the Sewer District...
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A holiday lunch at our Administration offices ended with one of our managers receiving a crocheted mini toilet, handmade by one of our colleagues, Marina. Um yes please. #Adorable #Weird, #ButAdorable pic.twitter.com/mfVtPR9E0M — Spokesdrop, NEORSD (@wallywaterdrop) December 14, 2013 We think Marina made it without a pattern, which makes...
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Throwback Thursday is an opportunity to harken back to a time when we used the words “hence” and “typhoid” in daily American conversation. The 4-minute clip above is from a 20-minute 1928 educational silent film called “Health and Hygiene” which focused on the causes of common diseases and their...
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“It’s a little messy around the edges,” Joe said, referring to his sketch of a combined sewer regulator. I would have described it as intricate, then again, I’m not Joe. Joe Jira is a Geographic Information System Analyst in our Engineering department, and Analyst doesn’t give his enthusiasm for...
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