Regional Sewer District focuses on planning a well-designed park to follow removal of Horseshoe Lake Dam

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — There’s no peace yet in Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights over the prospect of losing Horseshoe Lake, a beloved scenic amenity that appears to be nearing its end.

Some residents, perhaps many, are still riled up over the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s controversial decision last year to remove the badly aging, 170-year-old Horseshoe Lake Dam. The agency feared that if the earthen dam had collapsed in heavy rains, the 12-acre lake could have sent a wall of water barreling down Doan Brook into Cleveland’s University Circle.

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