Water Reclamation Department
The Water Reclamation Department employs thirty-eight full time employees at two locations located on Lakeshore Boulevard and Lakeland Boulevard.
The Water Reclamation Department employs thirty-eight full time employees at two locations located on Lakeshore Boulevard and Lakeland Boulevard. The Lakeshore facility processes the wastewater and the Lakeland facility processes the solids accumulated from the waste stream and disposes of them. The Department has five sections within itself, these sections consist of the Laboratory, Maintenance, Operations, Sewer Maintenance and Stormwater. The Water Reclamation Facility receives, tests, and treats wastewater from five different communities. The communities that we serve include Euclid, Richmond Heights, Wickliffe, Willoughby Hills, and Willowick. The Department, with the assistance of the Service Garage employees are responsible for the maintenance and repairs to the hundreds of miles of storm and sanitary sewer within the collection system and its pumping stations. Annually, the facility receives and treats in excess of five billion gallons of wastewater, discharging it into Lake Erie for reuse. The Department is in the process of finishing a nine-year construction project that includes upgrading the facility to state-of-the-art Membrane Bioreactors. This upgrade has increased the facility’s ability to treat sixty-six million gallons daily with the ability to store up to an additional fifteen million gallons, up from the previous system that treated up to twenty-five million gallons daily. With the upgrade of the facility, there has been a huge learning curve that comes with modern technology. The entire staff has been fantastic adapting to and learning the operation & maintenance of the new treatment system.
