Turning pollution into solutions? It's worth it.

Brown, Sulik, DePiero are re-elected for 2011-2012

(L to R) DePiero, Brown, and Sulik are sworn in at this afternoon's Board of Trustees meeting

Today, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Board of Trustees re-elected Darnell Brown as President, Ronald D. Sulik as Vice President and Mayor Dean DePiero as Secretary for the 2011-2012 year.

It's official: CSO consent decree is signed

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's combined sewer overflow long-term control plan (CSO LTCP) consent decree was approved by the US District Court on June 30 and filed on the Court's docket today. The terms of the consent decree are now legally binding on the District. Known as Project Clean Lake, the 25-year consent decree outlines $3 billion of investments that will reduce the amount of pollution entering our Great Lake.

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

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.

Now apply for summer sprinkling program online

Yesterday, our Customer Service department launched its new online application for the summer sprinkling rate-saving program. View the form.

Sewer District to open doors for Open House later this summer

Question: Green roofs in Philly, so how about Cleveland?

Several tweets came across our "stormwater" feed over the last week discussing the City of Philadelphia's $2 billion green-infrastructure stormwater control plan. ...

Trustees approve sewer rate increase for 2012-2016

Today, Trustees of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District voted to accept the recommendation to increase sewer rates effective January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2016. The dissenting votes were Parma Mayor Dean DePiero and Middleburg Heights Mayor Gary Starr.