CLEVELAND -- Swimming advisories are in effect for Edgewater Beach, Villa Angela Beach and Euclid Beach after heavy rain and sewer outfalls caused raw sewage to spill into Lake Erie.
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District says several sewer overflows spewed sewage into Euclid Creek and Lake Erie during the heavy rain.
Visitors, particularly children, the elderly and those in ill health, are advised to avoid contact with water and debris.
The sewer district says they have cut the number of sewer overflows in half over the past 40 years. The sewer district is also in the midst of the 25-year, $3 billion Project Clean Lake, an effort to further reduce the level of raw sewage entering the waterways.
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