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The Thornton Composite Reservoir came online at the same time as disinfection facilities at the MWRD’s Calumet Water Reclamation Plant in Chicago, which also serves the southern area of the county. Working in tandem, the combination maximize water quality while minimizing flooding. The third and final piece of TARP is the McCook Reservoir.
Aerial view of Phase II of the McCook Reservoir under construction in 2023. The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the harmful effects of flushing raw sewage into Lake Michigan by diverting ...
Combined Sewer System. The change in the river's water flow was estimated to provide enough treatment-by-dilution for up to a population of three million. [1] However, in 1908, it became clear to the Chicago Sanitary District that the city’s population was continuing to grow and that the population would soon exceed the treatment capacity that the canal offered.
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [4] [5] [6] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [7] [8] [9] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas.
It draws raw water from two of the city's water cribs far offshore in Lake Michigan and supplies two thirds of City of Chicago consumers in the northern, downtown, and western parts of the city and to many northern and western surrounding suburbs. The plant was constructed in the 1960s and began functioning in 1968. [1]
After Houston area hospitals determined it would be unsafe to discharge patients to homes without power, several locations became backed up, prompting city officials to organize overflow beds in ...
The city and county jointly sponsored an architectural competition that Holabird & Roche won by unanimous vote. [12] Construction of the county building (east wing) began in 1905, and by 1907 some county offices were already beginning to move in. [12] Construction of city hall (the west wing) was delayed until 1909 because the city had to wait for the State to increase its borrowing authority ...
The city began a cleanup in June 1993, replacing 58,300 cubic yards of topsoil and installing "groundwater recovery systems" to remove water contaminated with motor fuel and chlorinated solvents. Fugro Environmental Inc. reported to the City of Houston that the cleanup put the site in compliance with Environmental Protection Agency standards.