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A Brief History of the District
A Brief History of the District In the late 1950’s, Wood County had minimal water and sewer facilities in the county (except for the larger and medium-sized municipalities). Fostoria, Bowling G...
Northern Ohio, Algae Blooms, and Lake Erie Legislation
Northern Ohio, Algae Blooms, and Lake Erie Legislation 3/26/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site MARCH 26, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD What’s a blog? That simple question is diffi...
Water contracts affecting cost, quality, capacity, and confidence in utilities
Water contracts affecting cost, quality, capacity, and confidence in utilities 4/8/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WORDPRESS SITE (PRETTIER PICTURES!) It’s another bloody...
Please Join Us: Our Annual Open House Happens on May 3rd!
Please Join Us: Our Annual Open House Happens on May 3rd! 4/14/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site APRIL 14, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD Sunday, May 3rd is our Annual Open House at...
Northwestern Water & Sewer District Helps Wood County Economic Development
Northwestern Water & Sewer District Helps Wood County Economic Development 4/27/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site APRIL 27, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD With the CSX intermodal ...
Northwestern Water & Sewer District Board of Trustees
Northwestern Water & Sewer District Board of Trustees 5/1/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site MAY 1, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT I thought it might be of interest for you to learn a...
Advantages of a Regional Water & Sewer District
Advantages of a Regional Water & Sewer District 5/5/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site MAY 5, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD Ever since the Northwestern Water & Sewer District was ...
Our State and Federal Elected Officials
Our State and Federal Elected Officials 5/16/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site MAY 16, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD Wood County is well-represented by county, state, and nationa...
Let’s really protect the environment
Let’s really protect the environment 6/4/2015. Filed under Blog. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WORDPRESS SITE (PRETTIER PICTURES!) Let’s Really Protect the Environment The Ohio legislature is currently...
Wood County Summer Events
Wood County Summer Events 6/8/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site JUNE 8, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD We challenge ourselves to involve the Northwestern Water & Sewer District in...
Drinking Water Recommendations
Drinking Water Recommendations 6/17/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site JUNE 17, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD During these months of warmer temperatures with more outdoor activiti...
Algae and common sense
Algae and common sense 6/19/2015. Filed under Blog. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WORDPRESS SITE (PRETTIER PICTURES!) Common Sense, Algae and Drinking Water The employees at NWWSD work hard, are well qua...
Dealing with the rain
Dealing with the rain 7/1/2015. Filed under BlogNotices. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WORDPRESS SITE (PRETTIER PICTURES!) NWWSD Dealing with the Rain! We’ve seen plenty of rain this summer and especia...
WaterSheds!
WaterSheds! 7/3/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site JULY 3, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT The Northwestern Water & Sewer District has chosen to offer an alternative to bottled water t...
Update: Let’s Really Protect the Environment- CORD Helps Remove Potentially Negative Legislation
Update: Let’s Really Protect the Environment- CORD Helps Remove Potentially Negative Legislation 7/6/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site JULY 6, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT Someti...
It’s the Law!
It’s the Law! 7/13/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site JULY 13, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT Calling before you dig is important not only for safety reasons, but also because IT’S...
NWWSD Mission
NWWSD Mission 7/14/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site JULY 14, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD Mission Statements are very important. The statements provide reasons for an organizat...
More on the NWWSD Board
More on the NWWSD Board 7/30/2015. Filed under Blog. Click here to go to the WordPress Site JULY 30, 2015 / LEAVE A COMMENT I wanted to give you all a better glimpse into how our Board of Trustees...
CodeRed Blog
CodeRed Blog 8/14/2015. Filed under BlogNotices. Click here for WordPress Site CodeRED I believe it is important that you all hear from some folks who work at the District. Below you will find a ...
Check Valve Blog
Check Valve Blog 8/14/2015. Filed under BlogNotices. Click here for WordPress Site Importance of a Check Valve Hello! I have another guest blogger today: Stephanie Keefer from the Northweste...
Bottled Water Blogging
Bottled Water Blogging 8/19/2015. Filed under BlogNotices. CLick Here for WordPress Site This time of year, when you are apt to grab a cold bottle of water to drink, I want you to think about the...
Aquahawk Blog
Aquahawk Blog 9/3/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site People have been asking about our free Aquahawk program. Well I can tell you that it’s very cool. Simply, it’s a f...
Auditor of State Award with Distinction
Auditor of State Award with Distinction 9/15/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Clickhere for WordPress Site I wanted to send a big shout out and congratulations to the staff of our Accounting and ...
CORD and ORWA join forces
CORD and ORWA join forces 9/21/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site Many organizations first become involved in legislative activities as the result of the introduction of...
Blog: Ethics training at NWWSD
Blog: Ethics training at NWWSD 9/23/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress site Approximately every two years the Northwestern Water & Sewer District Board and staff receives t...
Paying Late Hurts Everyone
Paying Late Hurts Everyone 9/29/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site Recently I asked Pam Gaffin, our Assistant Customer Service Manager at NWWSD to write about the eff...
Sunshine Laws
Sunshine Laws 10/14/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. CLick here for WordPress Site OCTOBER 14, 2015 / JERRYGREINERNWWSD The state’s public records law and open meetings law are known as “Ohio...
21 years and counting!
21 years and counting! 11/20/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. CLICK HERE FOR WORDPRESS SITE All public employees were required to meet OSHA standards beginning July 1, 1994. This was done when Hous...
NWWSD TWEETS!
NWWSD TWEETS! 11/23/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site (more pictures!) Hello all. I thought I would share with you how we use Twitter here at the Northwestern Water & ...
Cold weather preparedness
Cold weather preparedness 12/21/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Don’t let cold weather catch you unprepared Pipes do freeze, and they do burst. And while our autumn weather has been great, I am s...
Northwestern Water & Sewer District’s Operations Challenge Team competes at North American Championships
Northwestern Water & Sewer District’s Operations Challenge Team competes at North American Championships 12/28/2015. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site I am so proud of our ...
You Can Help: Can the Grease and Wipe out Wipes!
You Can Help: Can the Grease and Wipe out Wipes! 1/5/2016. Filed under BlogNotices. Click here for WordPress Site Can the Grease: We at the Northwestern Water & Sewer District have seen rising ca...
The Power of Maps
The Power of Maps 1/14/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site It is really wonderful these days to be able to use digital and interactive web maps. The ability to use thes...
The 2016 Budget
The 2016 Budget 1/20/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site Governments must balance their budget each year with their income and expenses. However, our revenue here at the ...
Be a Hydrant Hero!
Be a Hydrant Hero! 2/9/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site February 9, 2016 / jerrygreinernwwsd Okay, we have had our January thaw, and the groundhog predicted an early s...
Regional Water Studies
Regional Water Studies 2/11/2016. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site February 11, 2016 / jerrygreinernwwsd The next few months will be busy with the release of several regional water...
Regional Water Studies – Part 2
Regional Water Studies – Part 2 2/16/2016. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site February 16, 2016 / jerrygreinernwwsd Last week I outlined several regional water studies underway in t...
Regional Water Studies-Part 3
Regional Water Studies-Part 3 3/2/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site March 2, 2016 / jerrygreinernwwsd Over the past few weeks I’ve outlined several regional water stu...
NWWSD Employee Milestones
NWWSD Employee Milestones 3/7/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site March 7, 2016 / jerrygreinernwwsd Several of our employees at the Northwestern Water & Sewer District re...
Blog on Blogging
Blog on Blogging 4/18/2016. Filed under Blog. Click here for WordPress Site I’ve “blogged” for 12 months now. Actually about 42 times in 52 weeks. All-in-all it’s been a good effort with ...
Regional Water Studies blog
Regional Water Studies blog 5/20/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site The area’s three water studies should be out soon. These will give the three areas of our region di...
McComb Merger
McComb Merger 5/24/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site The Northwestern Water & Sewer District’s board approved a merger with the Village of McComb at our board meeting...
Regional water studies available
Regional water studies available 7/20/2016. Filed under Notices. Several water supply studies have recently been released detailing long-term water supply options for various entities in Northw...
Regional water studies blog
Regional water studies blog 8/30/2016. Filed under NoticesBlog. Click here for WordPress Site Over the past few weeks, three regional studies have been completed and publicly released. These incl...
Regional Water Update
Regional Water Update 1/13/2017. Filed under Blog. Regional Water Update January 13, 2017 LINK TO BLOG SITE Full Support All purchasers and seller (Toledo) approved a resolution to support a regi...
TMACOG Water Study
TMACOG Water Study 1/10/2017. Filed under Blog. TMACOG Water Study January 10, 2017 / A recent Toledo Blade article covered the ongoing issue of regional water. It explains a forthcoming meetin...
Regional Water Participation
Regional Water Participation 2/6/2017. Filed under Blog. Regional Water Participation February 6, 2017 What does that mean to you as a customer? It should mean that a regional entity, most likely ...
Regional Water Discussion
Regional Water Discussion 3/17/2017. Filed under Blog. Regional Water Discussion – March 2017 March 17, 2017 / LINK TO BLOG SITE Last week, the City of Toledo shared its proposal on regional wat...
Open House
Open House 5/3/2017. Filed under Press Releases. Wednesday, May 3, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Northwestern Water & Sewer District Open House BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, – The Northwestern Water and ...
Funding Discounts
Funding Discounts 5/15/2017. Filed under Blog. Senior Discount MAY 3, 2017 / From time to time our board is asked to consider public policy ideas that affect a minority of our users, rather than a ...
THE LEAK: Affordable Water
THE LEAK: Affordable Water 5/24/2017. Filed under Blog. Click to comment on this post of THE LEAK. I recently read an article on water affordability called “Affordable Water in the U.S.A.: A Burgeo...
THE LEAK: What is Cord?
THE LEAK: What is Cord? 7/7/2017. Filed under Blog. Coalition of Ohio Regional Districts There are approximately 100-120 water and/or sewer organizations in Ohio providing public utilities under Oh...
Regional Water Talks Continue
Regional Water Talks Continue 9/14/2017. Filed under Blog. The Northwestern Water & Sewer District (The District) continues to participate in the Toledo Chamber of Commerce funded regional water di...
Purified Water Sold at 10 WaterShed Locations in Northwest Ohio.
Purified Water Sold at 10 WaterShed Locations in Northwest Ohio. Our WaterShed locations are stand-alone buildings owned by the Northwestern Water and Sewer District. They have a reverse-osmosis,...
Milestone Northwest Ohio Economic Development Project
From time-to-time, we get called upon to provide help for economic development projects in our area. Sometimes, they are simple plant expansions, extensions for subdivision or retail needs, or ques...
Where The District Stands (Today) on Regional Water
BLOG – Entry by Jerry Greiner, President of The Northwestern Water & Sewer District June 21, 2018 At The District, we continue to explore options for water for our 6,500 customers in Northern Wood ...
Facing (Rate) Challenges Head on
The District has never backed away from the challenges that come with running a water and sewer utility. Perhaps one of the largest issues facing the water industry in the United States today is ...
Regional Water Update
August 14, 2018 The Northwestern Water & Sewer District is monitoring on-going studies of water options in Northwest Ohio. I hope this helps your understanding in our continued discussions on To...
Helping Our Economy Grow
BLOG 10-25-2018 Economic Development in Wood County It’s been a very, very good year for economic development in Wood County. How good? Companies have committed to invest $750 million in new ...
Continued Economic Development Efforts in Wood County
Continued Economic Development Efforts in Wood County A blog from District President, Jerry Greiner The District finds itself in the middle of all of the recent economic development announcements i...
District Merger Update
District Merger Update Henry County Regional Water and Sewer and Northwestern Water and Sewer District In the last two weeks, both our District and the Board of Henry County Regional Water and Sewe...
Five years ago today…
This year marks the five-year anniversary of the “Do Not Drink Tap Water Advisory” for people in the City of Toledo’s water service area. In the early morning hours of August 2, 2014, aroun...
Toledo Water Agreement – Is it Good?
The City of Toledo’s mayor and administration sent to their city council an ordinance asking for approval for the mayor to sign a new water agreement with the suburbs. This agreement called the “Un...
