Restoration of wetlands, stream underway at Cleveland's Wildwood State Park: "Tuesday evening's open house at Wildwood State Park presented goals and challenges involved in restoring wetlands and stream meanders near the mouth of Euclid Creek..." For the full Cleveland.com story, click here.
Conservation Fund offers $14.75 million to buy, preserve Acacia Country Club land in Lyndhurst: "A nonprofit conservation group is chasing Acacia Country Club, a 160-acre swath of open space that has kept developers salivating for decades. Shareholders at the private club are considering yet another deal to sell their land, a high-profile golf course property in Lyndhurst. But for the first time, the would-be buyer isn't a real estate developer or corporation..." For the full Cleveland.com story, click here.
City of Lyndhurst makes purchase offer of $16 million for Acacia Country Club property; would partner with a developer: "The city has countered an offer made last week by the Conservation Fund to purchase Acacia Country Club, offering $16 million for the 160-acre property bordered by Cedar and Richmond roads. A week ago, the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Virginia, offered $14.75 million for the country club. The Acacia board is expected to vote on the Conservation Fund offer Sept. 6. If that offer is accepted, the Conservation Fund plans to keep the property a greenspace..." For the full Cleveland.com story, click here.
Residents criticize plan to move South Euclid-Lyndhurst library from historic mansion: "Some residents in South Euclid and Lyndhurst are criticizing a plan that would move the library out of a historic mansion on Mayfield Road to a new building on Green Road..." For the full Cleveland.com story, click here.
My Ohio: Concrete allows rain to soak through, sidesteps need for sewers to take away water - Cleveland sewer headquarters tries new pavement: "There are more the 1,400 miles of sewer lines criss-crossing in the world below the surface of Cleveland. The rain that falls finds its way to street catch basins, which gulp in the water bound for sewer lines that take the rain to Lake Erie.
However, there could be a cost savings if the concrete pavement actually were able to soak up the rainwater instantly, allowing it to soak into the soil below.
That prospect excites Rachid Zoghaib, commissioner of Cleveland Water Pollution Control, the service that maintains Cleveland's sewer lines. As part of an experiment, Zoghaib's group has laid a patch of pervious concrete half the size of a football field.
Resembling a cake of Rice Krispies cereal, this concrete is porous enough to allow water to flow through. There is no need for sewer lines to take away the rainwater that falls on this part of the Water Pollution Control's parking lot. The water vanishes as soon as it hits the pervious concrete...."
For the full News 5 Leon Bibb story or to see the video demonstrating the permeable concrete in action, click here.
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