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Two important early projects included the reversal of the Chicago River, designed to carry wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in 1900 which aided in the flow of water away from Lake Michigan, the source of the region's drinking water.
Journalist Gregory Tajeda of the Chicago Argus said in an article on April 21, 2009, that "Crestwood's tainted water "cover-up" is not a surprise to political observers." [54] Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune in an article he wrote on June 10th 2009 [55] alleges that there was "a systematic coverup of Crestwood's routine use of its ...
They found that out of the 2,059 water samples collected from the beaches, 285 exceeded the RWQS, for a total of 14% exceeding samples. According to Dick Durbin, the opening of the two new sewage treatments plants in Skokie and Calumet was designed to improve the overall water quality of the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS). [6] The two ...
Apr. 13—DANVILLE — How Danville customers are billed for city sewer, solid waste collection and public safety pension fee will be separated from bills owed to the Danville Sanitary District.
It owns and operates 16 water and waste water utilities, and operates 90 municipal water and waste water systems through public-private partnerships and contract agreements. [1] The company has over 2,300 employees, and in 2013, United Water generated $764 million in revenue, and managed $3.2 billion in total assets. [1]
However, sewage still flowed into the lake and polluted the city's drinking water. In 1863, work began on a two-mile Chicago lake tunnel, sixty feet under the lake, out to a new intake crib. that would draw cleaner water farther from the city. [9] Eventually, however, sewage water seeped all the way to the crib, giving Chesbrough a third chance ...
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