Aerial photo of the Lake Erie coastline with Lakewood in the foreground and the Cleveland skyline in the background

Engineering student Joel Hauerwas part of project to build artistic, useful debris catchers for Lake Erie.

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FreshWater: Joel Hauerwas, an undergraduate engineering student, is noted as one of two local college students helping architect Thomas Zung with a project to build octagon-shaped, cage-like structures to catch stormwater debris before it enters Lake Erie.