UPDATE / #gatorrescue :: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is Jenni’s new home

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• November 13th, 2012
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This two-foot-long American alligator—affectionately named Jenni—was rescued from Big Creek in Cleveland last Thursday. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo picked her up this morning and will care for her as part of the zoo’s outreach program. See you later, alligator. “Jenni,” the alligator rescued by a Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer...

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TWEET: “We’re not that bad.” And getting better.

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• November 1st, 2012
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Our @WallyWaterdrop came across this tweet from Ohio Problems @Ohio_Probs late yesterday. It’s still getting RT’d today. In typical “Only In Cleveland” fashion, even Wally had a chuckle at this, but the sewage issue caught our attention. While our work can’t improve our baseball team’s standings or locals’ dietary...

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ALERT: Broken sewer pipe reduces traffic to one lane on Warner Road

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• October 20th, 2011
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  A portion of a sewer pipe owned by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has broken and caused a sinkhole on Warner Road just north of Turney Road (near Mill Creek Falls area). Therefore, Warner Road has been restricted to one lane, southbound only, but there have been...

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EVENT: Catch-basin clean-out protocol will be topic at 10/4 meeting

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• September 20th, 2011
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On October 4, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District will host a meeting for service directors and businesses interested in learning more about discharge requirements as they relate to municipal catch basin cleaning. The meeting will be held at the Environmental and Maintenance Services Center, 4747 East 49th Street...

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UPDATE: Sewer maintenance crew at work

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• August 25th, 2011
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Water flows downhill, but sometimes gravity needs a little help. When a City of Cleveland pump station at Mary Avenue and W. 3 St. went down earlier this month, wastewater flow could not be properly routed to the Sewer District’s interceptor sewer responsible for carrying the flow to the...

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Our aging sewers: Complex, creative, critical, and crumbling

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• June 29th, 2011
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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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What is inflow and infiltration?

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• March 25th, 2011
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Did you know? | Inflow and infiltration are common problems in aging sewer systems. As sewers age, cracks form and rain and groundwater rapidly seep into them (infiltration, as seen above). Another problem is inflow, where downspouts or storm lines are improperly connected to sanitary sewers. As a result,...

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Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, [but geez it’s cold out here]…

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• January 14th, 2011
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Sewer System Maintenance & Operation crews transmit GPS coordinates of a sewer manhole location, collecting data for the Sewer District’s geographic information system (GIS).

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The good, the bad, and the history

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• October 18th, 2010
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Combined sewers are at the heart of Cleveland’s sewer history. How were huge pipes designed to divert sewage and stormwater directly to nearby waterways ever considered a good idea? and why are they still in use today? As heard on a recent WCPN 90.3 interview, Director of Watershed Programs...

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