Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
 
 
 
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Depends on where you live, actually.

Older sewers carry stormwater with sewage to a treatment plant, but many suburban sewers drain stormwater right into the environment.
When it rains, water soaks into the ground and eventually trickles to Lake Erie, or it falls on hard surfaces and flows into street sewers via catch basins (the street openings that allow water to enter the sewers).

In older cities like Cleveland, rain on streets, sidewalks and roofs flows to a combined sewer (which carries rain and sewage in the same pipe) and then to a wastewater treatment plant.

Most suburbs and newer communities have separate sewers for stormwater: They carry that flow to the nearest stream or directly to Lake Erie. Here are the basics:
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