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2. Jardine Water Purification Plant - Wikipedia

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   The plant was constructed in the 1960s and began functioning in 1968. [1] The plant was renamed after James W. Jardine (1908-1977), a 42-year city employee, who served as water commissioner from 1953 until his retirement in 1973. Shortly thereafter the Ohio Street Beach was formed in the bay created by the

3. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

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   In 1910, the North Shore Channel was completed to provide drainage for the marshy areas north of the city and to direct lake water into the North Branch of the Chicago River for dilution. The Cal-Sag Channel was ready for operation in 1922, which also was the year the first treatment plant of the Sanitary District of Chicago was completed. The ...

4. Sawyer Water Purification Plant - Wikipedia

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   The plant was under construction for many years, slowed by the Great Depression. Its construction was approved in 1930 and the plant began operation in 1947. [2] Water is drawn from a crib in Lake Michigan that has an intake about 20–30 feet below the surface of the lake and is then drawn through a tunnel below the lake bed to the treatment plant, and then put through several steps to filter ...

5. Endorsements for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

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   So-called CSOs have been an environmental challenge in the Chicago area for decades. The MWRD owns and runs seven water reclamation plants, 560 miles of sewers and mains and 23 pumping stations ...

6. Publicly owned treatment works - Wikipedia

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   The term is used extensively in U.S. water pollution law (i.e. the Clean Water Act), regulations and programs. [1] [2] Many POTWs were established or expanded with grants or low-interest loans from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [3] There are over 16,000 POTWs in the U.S., serving 75 percent of the total population. [4]

7. Why removing Chicago's lead service lines for water ... - AOL

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   It would also improve sampling protocols used by public water systems. All of this, a monumental task, especially for cities like Chicago. "We're number one in the country, 400,000 lead service lines.