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One of several actions we take to keep your drinking water safe and protect you and your family from the risk of lead in water is optimizing our water chemistry to minimize corrosion of pipes and plumbing.

Cleveland Water has awarded nearly $7 million to eight suburban service communities for 11 water main replacement projects. These awards are part of our Suburban Water Main Renewal Program and our $25 million annual investment in buried infrastructure.

Our treatment process can take nearly anything out of the water to make it safe to drink, but it’s easier and cheaper if we don’t have to. The first step in providing affordable, safe water to your tap is keeping our source water clean.

Keeping plastic waste out of Lake Erie makes it easier – and cheaper – for us to deliver consistently safe, quality water to your tap. Here are some actions that you can take to start reducing your reliance on single-use plastic.

Each summer, pockets of water with low levels of dissolved oxygen develop in at the bottom of Lake Erie’s Central Basin. These pockets are sometimes referred to as the “dead zone.”

Dissolved oxygen (also called DO) is gaseous oxygen dissolved in water that you can’t see. The level of dissolved oxygen in Lake Erie can have several implications.