Trap and Contain Storm Water Objects (TACSO) has been named the winner of Cleveland Water Alliance’s Erie Hack 2.0 and took home $40,000. The winning design featured a trash-collecting dome that gathers waste from stormwater runoff and sewer overflows.
“We’re going onto another competition and eventually we want to develop this product to save Lake Erie,” says Joel Hauerwas, a Case Western graduate student and part of the team led by Thomas Zung, the Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects president and senior fellow at Stanford University. The team also included Jason Taft, a senior at Cleveland Institute of Art.
In total, $100,000 was awarded in this innovation competition aimed at bettering Lake Erie.
To learn more about the Cleveland Water Alliance and the competition, including the other winners, visit clevelandwateralliance.org/news/2019/6/21/100k-awarded-in-erie-hack-water-innovation-competition-during-cuyahoga50-anniversary-week.
Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Water Alliance on Facebook.
