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The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
The July 2023 Chicago Area Flood was caused by a heavy rainfall that occurred on July 2, 2023, in the Chicago Metropolitan Area of northeastern Illinois. Rainfall up to 9.0 inches (23 cm) occurred over an 18-hour period; the majority occurred from early in the morning to late in the afternoon. [1] Flood-related damages across northeastern ...
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 Chicago River rose six feet (2 meters) during the storm, forcing workers to close a series of locks and reverse the river's flow from west to east into Lake Michigan to prevent more flooding ...
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 ...
The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of 156 miles (251 km) [1] that runs through the city of Chicago, ... Chicago flood of 1992
The 2007 Midwest flooding was a major flooding event that occurred in the Midwestern United States in the third week of August 2007. While Hurricane Dean was affecting the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, and Tropical Storm Erin was affecting Oklahoma and Texas, a persistent storm system hung over the Midwest for several days, causing ...
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.