Showing posts with label archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archives. Show all posts
Thursday, October 29, 2015

#TBT: Yes, THAT James Earl Jones narrated this 1978 documentary about the Cuyahoga River

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The melodious tones of James Earl Jones' golden pipes grace the narration track of this Cuyahoga River documentary from 1978. This cli...
Monday, February 9, 2015

GATOR: February 9 was Alligators in the Sewers Day. We did not know this.

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Chickasaw, formerly known as Jenni, rescued from Big Creek by our crews in 2012. Photo by George Uhl. Blogosphere, we have let you down...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

HISTORY: Barrels of alcohol down the sewers? Looking back at 1919 #Prohibition and environmental effects

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Image courtesy Library of Congress Happy anniversary! On this date in 1919, America officially became a "dry" country as proh...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

GAMES: "You have died of cholera," and other health lessons #OregonTrail teaches us

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You have died of cholera. Ah, the memories. Adults who grew up with Apple IIs in the classroom in the 1990s are having a nostalgia fie...
Friday, April 18, 2014

VIDEO: "Police of the underworld," Vienna's sewer brigade of 1934

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The city of Vienna once had a police squad specifically trained for sewer patrols. This 1934 British newsreel showcases the "canal br...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

#TBT: They don't make garden hose advertisements like this anymore.

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In 1914, Australians apparently took their yard work very seriously. This ad for Dunlop Garden Hoses as seen on Wikipedia takes us back...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

PHOTO: Safety first, top hats are a priority.

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Quite dapper for a sewer tunnel tour, no? These gents were friends of English civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette attending a tour of the m...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

VIDEO: 1928 school film shares how to treat sewage, how to set rat traps, and how not to catch malaria, typhoid, or the bubonic plague

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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 A...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

HISTORY: Next time you tap an address into your GPS, thank a pigeon. #GISday

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Image courtesy Wikipedia Before there was Google Maps, there were pigeons. Every November, GIS Day showcases geographic information ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

HISTORY: No power was no problem our plants couldn't handle

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"We had people showing up at the plants asking how they could help." That's how our then Director of Operations Tim Tigue...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

ARCHIVES: Her name is Peggy.

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Who was she? We posted this image on our Facebook page in 2011 but had no other information on her at the time. No one in our sewer ma...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

ARCHIVES: A photograph that changed everything

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Like rummaging through family photos from a dusty hatbox in the attic, finding a photo in our Sewer District archives can have amazing emo...
Friday, August 17, 2012

VIDEO: "OK, class, we have a film for you today."

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Ah, the new school year is upon us. And it brings back memories of science-class filmstrips and the clickety-clack of the projector. Here...
Friday, July 27, 2012

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

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Expansion of our Easterly Wastewater Treatment Plant. April 5, 1932. Our history predates our creation. Make sense? This year marks th...
Friday, December 2, 2011

ARCHIVES: "Detailed plan, 1902"

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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.