Cleveland project Clean Lake: sewer bills will significantly increase. Shall it really help Lake Erie to be clean and safe?
High budget - 3 billion dollar - controversial Clean Lake project will touch in one way or another hundreds of thousands of families in Greater Cleveland.
What is the Clean Lake project about? It's a series of capital improvement projects designed to stop raw sewage from entering local waterways, including Lake Erie, during heavy rains.
A proposed $3 billion, 25-year capital program, will reduce the
total volume of raw discharges from 4.5 billion gallons to 494 million gallons annually.
Existing sewers in Greater Cleveland, similar to other mid-west cities, were designed and built to transport both sanitary sewage and rain water in one pipe. During a heavy rain, the pipe can become too full, discharging raw sewage into the environment. Clean Lake project is going to stop this disaster.
What will it mean for residents of Greater Cleveland? Better environment, better quality of water AND - a very significant increase in sewer rates, "rain tax", how many people already called it.
As it touches over a million of people, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) will educate our residents and will hold total of six public meetings between November 4, 2010 and November 17, 2010. The meetings will be held at 7pm at the following locations:
- Monday, November 8 - Hudson @ Barlow Community Center 41 S. Oviatt, Hudson 44236
- Tuesday, November 9 - Cleveland @ Mt. Sinai Church 7510 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland 44104
- Wednesday, November 10 - Maple Heights @ Maple Heights Library 5225 Library Lane, Maple Heights 44137
- Tuesday, November 16 - Cleveland (West) @ Gunning Recreation Center 16700 Puritas Ave, Cleveland 44135
- Wednesday, November 17 - Parma @ Memorial Hall 6617 Ridge Rd, Parma 44129
If you want to know what's going to be done, and how it will affect your families and neighborhoods, please plan to attend.
