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PHOTO: Salty sewers? Winter’s residue builds up beneath the streets

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January 22nd, 2013
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Snow on the roads this morning makes traveling treacherous, but what’s going on below the surface? Our Sewer System Maintenance and Operation crews inspect sewers all year round, and during periods of road salting and deicing, the calcium deposits in sewers can build up quickly. In the above photo...

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July 27th, 2012
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HISTORY: 40-year anniversary, 100+ years of history?

Expansion of our Easterly Wastewater Treatment Plant. April 5, 1932. Our history predates our creation. Make sense? This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Cleveland Regional Sewer District, which would later be renamed the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. But that doesn’t mean the area’s...

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July 16th, 2012
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ARCHIVES: Drive-in was Southerly neighbor in 1960s

Image by Robert Frank, 1955. Our student assistant Stephanie Harris uncovered a great bit of nostalgia recently when she included the phrase “drive-in theater” in a story about our Southerly wastewater treatment plant in Cuyahoga Heights. That’s right. Our current plant’s footprint covers a space that used to be...

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June 18th, 2012
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PHOTOS: Where’s Wally? Austria. Sort of.

Former Sewer District summer student Robert Nedrich sent us a few photos of his time in Vienna, Austria. A true validation of the impact we had on Robert, he was quick to see the resemblance between a Vienna water treatment facility mascot and our own Wally Waterdrop, our official...

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April 19th, 2012
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TUNNEL: I love it when a TBM comes together.

Piece by piece, the gigantic tunnel digger that will burrow the underground route for the Sewer District‘s Euclid Creek Tunnel is arriving on site in Cleveland. The behemoth is known as a tunnel boring machine, or TBM, and it will take several truckloads and a few more weeks to...

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December 2nd, 2011
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Scanned from a series of glass-plate slides from the early 1900s, this 1902 blueprint shows a schematic for a primary filter.

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PHOTO: Salty sewers? Winter’s residue builds up beneath the streets

HISTORY: 40-year anniversary, 100+ years of history?

ARCHIVES: Drive-in was Southerly neighbor in 1960s

PHOTOS: Where’s Wally? Austria. Sort of.

TUNNEL: I love it when a TBM comes together.

ARCHIVES: “Detailed plan, 1902”

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PHOTO: Salty sewers? Winter’s residue builds up beneath the streets

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HISTORY: 40-year anniversary, 100+ years of history?

ARCHIVES: Drive-in was Southerly neighbor in 1960s

PHOTOS: Where’s Wally? Austria. Sort of.

TUNNEL: I love it when a TBM comes together.

ARCHIVES: “Detailed plan, 1902”

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