CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is proposing a $20 million plan to eliminate the long-standing sewage outfall at Edgewater Beach, a highly visible issue that has plagued the popular lakefront destination for decades.

Despite previously meeting federal standards, new engineering solutions have made removing the outfall feasible. Here are five takeaways from the original article by cleveland.com:

1. New $20 Million plan target high-profile problem

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is voluntarily undertaking a new $20 million project to completely eliminate the raw sewage outfall at Edgewater Beach. Although the outfall already meets U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards by overflowing only a few times a year, its location at a popular publi

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