Lower Shaker Lake Project December 2025 updates

In 2018 and 2019, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, with support from Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights, received permitting and sought a contractor to place riprap (large rock) along the embankment at Lower Lake Dam. This work was completed to help stabilize and maintain the earthen embankment. Over time, some of that riprap has been displaced.

As part of the Regional Stormwater Management Program, the Sewer District’s Stormwater Inspection and Maintenance team has contracted with Nerone and Sons to replace washed out riprap along the upstream side of the embankment at Lower Lake. This work is critical to maintaining the existing earthen dam.

The contractor will add a filter fabric base and rip rap where washout has occurred since the original project in 2018. About 100 tons of rock will be installed along 226 feet of the upstream embankment on both sides of the principal spillway. From a permitting perspective, work will be performed under the original Nationwide Permit 3 issued on January 22, 2018, under DA No. 2016-01373, since this is considered maintenance of that previous work.

Our contractor plans to begin maintenance work at Lower Shaker Lake on Monday, December 8 to replace the riprap on the upstream face of the dam. This work is weather-dependent, but the tentative schedule is noted below, subject to change. We will notify Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights if schedules shift.

• Nerone anticipates mobilizing and beginning staging on Brook Road on Friday, December 5
• Work expected to last 3-5 days (weather permitting)
• ~100 tons of riprap to be placed (see map below)
• Our Doan Brook Watershed investments summary (2015-2025) is a helpful resource for more information.

Click here to view additional Lower Lake Project updates from the NEORSD.