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  2. Chicago area water quality - Wikipedia

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    The State of Illinois created a drainage commission for the Chicago area in 1852 to deal with a potentially contaminated city water supply. [2] The commission made the master drainage plan in 1856. The master drainage plan was centered around raising the city by 3m and constructing new sewers that drained into the river and not the lake.

  3. Hard water - Wikipedia

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    A bathtub faucet with built-up calcification from hard water in Southern Arizona. Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum, [1] which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates.

  4. Mahomet Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    The Mahomet Aquifer is the most important aquifer in east-central Illinois.Composed of sand and gravel, it is part of the buried Mahomet Bedrock Valley.It underlies 15 counties and ranges from 50 to 200 feet (15 to 60 m) thick.

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    The pump's water is drawn from a natural aquifer 31–85 feet (9.4–25.9 m) deep and is untreated. [3] [4] Compared to Chicago tap water, it has less copper and scant iron, with slightly higher pH and high levels of dissolved minerals.

  6. Illinois Town's $13 Million Water System Will Remove PFAS - AOL

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    Freeport is a small industrial city of 24,000 in northwest Illinois. For a price tag of $13 million, it's building a new public water system to tap deep into new, uncontaminated water sources.

  7. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

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    The MWRD operates the largest water reclamation plant in the United States, the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, Illinois, in addition to six other plants and 23 pumping stations. These seven plants range in capacity from 1.44 billion gallons per day at the Stickney Plant to 4 million gallons per day at the Lemont Plant.

  8. dGH - Wikipedia

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    Degrees of general hardness (dGH or °GH) is a unit of water hardness, specifically of general hardness. General hardness is a measure of the concentration of divalent metal ions such as calcium (Ca 2+) and magnesium (Mg 2+) per volume of water. Specifically, 1 dGH is defined as 10 milligrams (mg) of calcium oxide (CaO) per litre of

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