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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 MWRD oversees one of the largest civil engineering projects ever undertaken—the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, better known as the "Deep Tunnel Project." It includes over one hundred miles of tunnels, 9 to 33 feet (10 m) in diameter, each part of an extensive flood mitigation and pollution control project. [ 10 ]
Although the plan was a success, it is still incomplete. According to Macaitis, In 1975, the Clean Water Act was passed, [1] allowing the EPA to tackle the issue of water pollution and fund projects to improve water quality. However, this divided the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan into two phases.
The Deep Tunnel’s massive sewers, capable of holding 2.3 billion gallons, were almost empty, according to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District records. At the end of tunnels hundreds of feet ...
She said storm water is also sent to the plant, is treated the same as water from domestic sewers and uses its connection to the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, also known as the Deep Tunnel, to get ...
English: Aerial view of Phase II of the McCook Reservoir, part of the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (Chicago Deep Tunnel), under construction in September 2023. Interstate 55 and the Des Plaines River are at bottom right; the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is at top left.
Hours before heavy rains swamped Chicago and Cook County suburbs on July 2, the region’s $3.8 billion flood-control project appeared ready as can be to bottle up storm runoff. The Deep Tunnel ...
Work began this week on the largest water tunnel in Westchester County in 80 years, a $1.9 billion project linking the Kensico Reservoir to a treatment facility in Mount Pleasant.