#CIFF38: Silence your phones during the movie, and don’t tweet from the bathroom.

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• March 19th, 2014
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@CIFF @wallywaterdrop gr8 partnerships yield gr8 results (& dry phones) Ty @neorsd for sponsoring gr8est film fest pic.twitter.com/v7VvJwSDL5 — joecimperman (@joecimperman) April 11, 2013 The Cleveland International Film Festival returns today, and with 93,000+ admissions last year, we know all sorts of eyes will be focused on our city—and...

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VIDEO: And you thought you’d never be interested in how a pump station works.

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• March 18th, 2014
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For most people, wastewater treatment just happens. It’s not something many think about. One thing we’ve enjoyed on our social media channels is the ability to bring the real-world work behind cleaning dirty water right in front of people’s eyes. Sure, we’re biased, but we think it’s amazing, and...

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NEWS: Banner and Lombardi out, …wait, what’s that gotta do with clean water?

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• February 11th, 2014
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Cleveland is a football town. So when shake-ups like today’s make things look messy, fans keep hope in a better future, right? We guess something similar could be said for our work: The efforts to clean wastewater and release it safely to the environment can be messy, misunderstood, or...

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LEGEND: Story of toilet surge during big game is a lasting #SewerBowl urban myth

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• January 30th, 2014
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MetLife Stadium, the site of Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday, February 2, 2014. Courtesy Wikipedia. The story goes something like this. Just after the Super Bowl’s second quarter, millions of fans rush to their bathrooms for relief, leading to a tremendous flush-induced surge in sewer systems across the country, large...

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PIC: Sure, some Olympic sports are synchronized, but this? [#h2olympics]

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• January 22nd, 2014
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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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FUN: More proof headline writers love wastewater-treatment stories

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• January 17th, 2014
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Well played, KTOO.

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MEDIA: Golden Globes red carpet soaked with sewage. Please stop snickering.

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• January 13th, 2014
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Last night’s Golden Globes red carpet included a cameo appearance no one expected: Water. On Sunday afternoon, Ryan Seacrest tweeted a photo of a flooded red carpet, caused by either a sprinkler system malfunction or a sewage leak. huge water leak on #goldenglobes red carpet…Bev Hills fire trying to...

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PIC: You never know what creatures you’ll find in the sludge

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• January 11th, 2014
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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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WOW: Bubbling tanks, frigid temps result in wondrous icy landscape

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• January 7th, 2014
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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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WATCH: 5-year-old builds wastewater treatment plant model out of Lego, puts whatever you built to shame

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• December 30th, 2013
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Wally is five years old and he built a wastewater treatment plant out of Lego. Really, it’s quite impressive. That and his narrated tour of the colorfully snapped-together facility is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Not something I’d want to step on with...

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