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In April 2012, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, and the U.S. EPA awarded the MWRD $10 million through the Illinois Jobs Now! capital program. That funding supplemented the $21 million in engineering and design costs needed to make the MWRD’s disinfection facilities possible.
Southland residents voted for a major bond in the depths of the Great Depression to fund the construction effort through the desert to deliver essential water supplies and generate badly needed jobs. [citation needed] The post-World War II boom and 1950s dry spells prompted a huge expansion of the Metropolitan service area as new cities began ...
The inartfully named Metropolitan Water Reclamation District long has been the mystery agency for many voters when they enter the polling station. After wading through state lawmakers, municipal ...
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 ...
The new tests will also be able to detect the dominant variants that are currently circulating, including subvariant KP.3.1.1 which makes up nearly 37% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., and KP.3 ...
Fans liked what they saw, too. "From Terminator to Santa, that’s the right path 💪🏻" one person wrote in the comments section. "This is the Hallmark Christmas Movie we deserve 🤣" another ...
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) contracted to use the quarry for stormwater overflow in 1998 as part of the Deep Tunnel or Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) for the metropolitan area. The Thornton Quarry supplies 7.9 billion gal US of stormwater storage, allowing the water to be treated before release into ...
The test positivity rate stayed flat, meanwhile, with just over 8% of PCR tests coming back positive. Overall, Covid hospitalizations and deaths remain low for this time of year compared to ...