Help close to home: How we plan projects, help neighbors, and see the future
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Project Engineer Christine Umerley works in the planning group of the Sewer District's Engineering & Construction department. She explains how the District plans for future projects and her own involvement helping neighborhoods through the Local Sewer System Evaluation Study (LSSES) and the Member Community Infrastructure Program (MCIP), unique efforts that support local projects with regional benefits. Some other acronyms mentioned in this episode: • CSO: Combined Sewer Overflow • SWIM: Stormwater Inspection & Maintenance • TBM: Tunnel Boring Machine • EIFA: Equity Investment Focus Area This episode also features excerpts from a conversation between Sewer District CEO Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells and WKYC Channel 3 Meteorologist Jason Mikell on the urban water cycle, the cost of clean water, and planning for the impacts of climate change and "wetter, warmer, wilder weather." The full interview can be found at https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAGRAnDgbYKl?s=20 
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