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CLEVELAND -- A crew cleaning sewers rescued an 18-inch alligator from the shallow waters of the Big Creek Friday.

It was limp and nearly frozen when they found it. The crew put the gator in a garbage bag with warm water to revive it.

A surveyor spotted the gator in the creek and alerted a crew with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District doing work nearby on the Jennings Road pump station maintenance building.

The alligator is a female -- and the sewer crew has named her "Jenny" -- since she was rescued on Jennings Road.

The alligator is being house at the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District lab in Cuyahoga Heights.

The've contacted the Ohio Department of Agriculture who is looking to find the alligator a home until then the sewer district will continue care for the creature.

(source: ABC news)