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Residents urge city to oppose sewer district plans that would alter Shaker Lakes

5535982 · August 5, 2025
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Dozens of residents urged Cleveland Heights officials at the Aug. 4 council meeting to preserve Lower Lake and Horseshoe Lake, saying the Northeast Ohio Sewer District’s plans would destroy parkland and historic features; the city announced public meetings with the sewer district on Aug. 11 and Aug. 20.

Multiple residents told Cleveland Heights City Council on Aug. 4 they oppose plans by the Northeast Ohio Sewer District that they say would remove or drastically alter Lower Lake and Horseshoe Lake in the Shaker Lakes park system. Corby Roberts said the sewer district “is not to turn it into a natural space at all, but rather they're turning it into a sewer, space,” and accused the district of planning a maintenance road, removing trees and failing to perform archaeological studies of Native American artifacts. “They are not going…

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