Clean Water Works
CLEVELAND, OHIO: From the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, an in-depth and fun conversation led by Donna Friedman and Mike Uva on any and all topics related to clean water, wastewater treatment, stormwater management, and the people, projects, and programs serving Lake Erie and our local waterways and communities.
Clean Water Works
Cleveland's Hidden Streams: An Interview with Dr. Roy Larick (Pt. 1)
"Working with rain is better than fighting it."
Dr. Roy Larick is an archaeologist who investigates the weave of natural and human forces in building inner-ring urban landscapes. In Part 1 of our interview, Dr. Larick discusses his work to identify buried ravines under Cleveland and show how some flooding issues could be remedied by reconnecting to those stream systems. We talk about old maps and more modern methods of discovery, and Dr. Larick shares a brief history of Kingsbury Run and the Sidaway Bridge.
Read more:
Here's a 2019 Plain Dealer feature on Dr. Larick.
Here's a Cleveland Historical Society feature on the Sidaway Bridge.
