Water and flooding have long been a concern in the Lomond and Sussex
neighborhoods; history provides clues as to why.
As it meanders through the neighborhoods, Lomond Boulevard roughly
follows the path of a stream bed that ran through the area when it was
farmland. Land speculators who purchased these properties created East View
Village, which encompassed portions of what today are the Onaway, Moreland,
Lomond, and Sussex neighborhoods.
By 1914 the Onaway and northern Moreland areas had been incorporated
into the Village of Shaker Heights. The Lomond and Sussex neighborhoods
became part of Shaker in 1919. All of this activity required planning and
engineering work, and in Shaker it coincided with significant advances in how
wastewater was conveyed and treated.
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