Tuesday, February 19, 2013
State officials made a stop in Lakewood last week to go over some fixes.
Some members of the Ohio EPA believe that the city of Lakewood isn’t doing enough to comply with the Clean Water Act, stemming from the city’s excessive storm-water runoff. Not so fast, say city officials. “We’ve done a substantial amount of work,” said Lakewood Mayor Michael Summers. State officials visited the city last Thursday to go over some of the city’s work to fix the issue. “It (was) a big meeting because the Ohio EPA has several members who feel we haven’t done enough,” he said. “It’s an act of ignorance on their part.” Lakewood has already spent “tens of millions of dollars” on upgrading the sewers since 1987, he said. That work includes separating sewers lines and studying and improving the process, Summers added. In addition…
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
City officials say increases will help offset EPA sewer regulations.
Water and sewer rates are going up for Lakewood residents again in 2012. Residents can expect a 2-percent rate increase in their water bills and a 10-percent hike in their sewer bills as they begin to arrive in Lakewood mailboxes in February. This is the second year of water and sewer rate increases. Joe Beno, the city’s director of public works, said the increases will help offset costs from meeting EPA regulations of wastewater overflow into Lake Erie. “Every city around here, everybody’s got sewer rates going up at least 10 percent,” he said. The city of Vermillion had an 11 percent rate hike last year; Willoughby a 26 percent increase; and the city of Euclid is raising its rates by nearly 50 percent this year. “Everyone along a lake or…
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Officials hope to comply with federal guidelines, but with a price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars, the city can’t swing it.
City officials concede that for the past 100 years in Lakewood, “the solution to pollution was dissolution.” That’s no longer an option. With Lakewood reporting in 2010 that 91.4 million gallons of storm/sewer water were dumped into Lake Erie, the EPA is forcing the city to make some changes. Those fixes to the city’s infrastructure could be expensive — as much as $500 million. The city is working on an agreement with the US EPA to address the problem. Lakewood’s combined sewers are designed to take all flows to the treatment plant, which can process about 20 million gallons per day. However, during storms, the volume of water entering the combined sewer system can exceed both the capacity of the combined sewers and the treatment plant. …
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Susan Kaminski
1:48 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
In 1997-98, Lakewood was undergoing a project to repair the roads and including replacing the sewer/water drain pipes. If I recall, the streets were evaluated and the worst streets were targeted first, there was also federal money or grants provided because home owners could apply for a 20% rebate on certain home repairs (new roof for example). If replacing sewer/water drains was the case, … more ›