Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District protects public health and the environment by leading effective wastewater and stormwater management. As the largest wastewater treatment provider in the State of Ohio, the Sewer District spans 363 square miles, manages 489 miles of streams, serves 63 communities and one million residents, and treats nearly 90 billion gallons of wastewater a year.

In addition to its award-winning treatment plant and laboratory performance, the Sewer District’s Project Clean Lake construction program will reduce annual Lake Erie pollution by 4 billion gallons by 2036, while its Regional Stormwater Management Program addresses widespread inter-community problems like flooding, pollution, and erosion.

Our mission

Provide progressive regional management of sewage and stormwater that protects the environment and serves our community.

Our vision

Be the environmental leader in enhancing quality of life in the region and protecting its water resources.

Our values

Ethics, Honesty, and Transparency:

Maintain the highest standards with our customers, our business partners, and each other.

Environmental stewardship:

Initiate and maintain effective practices of environmental sustainability through a commitment to a better tomorrow, a healthy environment, and strong communities.

Customer Focus:

Collaborate effectively with internal and external customers when considering decisions, policies, and programs.

Balanced and Informed Decision Making:

Formulate quality decisions based on objective metrics, analysis of our systems, customer needs, safe practices, and organizational goals, ideas, and perspectives.

Progressive Culture:

Facilitate positive changes and innovation that benefit the organization, our industry, and the region while fostering a learning environment and an engaged workforce.

Equity:

Ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion principles, policies, and practices are embedded into our work at all levels of the organization.

Accountability:

Accept responsibility, account for one’s action, and deliver on individual and collective commitments.

Respect:

Demonstrate high regard, value, and consideration for self, others, community, and the environment.