Overflow Action Day Heads up, Chicagoland got 2.2" of rain…
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Overflow Action Day
Heads up, Chicagoland got 2.2" of rain last night and another Flood Warning for tonight with another 1"-2"/ hour forecasted tonight.
The deep tunnels reservoirs designed to hold these large excess water events have been steadily moving to capacity from last night. So localized flooding is likely going to happen, along with a discharge into lake Michigan, you can do your part by minimizing your contribution by delaying big water usage (e.g. baths, laundry, car washing, etc) a couple of days.
https://mwrd.org/community-action/overflow-action
Can sign up for alerts above.
By the numbers, McCook reservoir is at \~90% which holds most of Chicago's excess is 3.1 Billion Gallons full and will take Stickney Water Reclamation Plant a couple of days to process (1.44 Billion Gallons per day at max capacity).
Status on the three reservoirs.
https://mwrd.org/what-we-do/tunnel-and-reservoir-plan-tarp/tunnel-and-reservoir-plan-tarp-reservoir-levels
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Heads up, Chicagoland got 2.2" of rain last night and another Flood Warning for tonight with another 1"-2"/ hour forecasted tonight.
The deep tunnels reservoirs designed to hold these large excess water events have been steadily moving to capacity from last night. So localized flooding is likely going to happen, along with a discharge into lake Michigan, you can do your part by minimizing your contribution by delaying big water usage (e.g. baths, laundry, car washing, etc) a couple of days.
https://mwrd.org/community-action/overflow-action
Can sign up for alerts above.
By the numbers, McCook reservoir is at \~90% which holds most of Chicago's excess is 3.1 Billion Gallons full and will take Stickney Water Reclamation Plant a couple of days to process (1.44 Billion Gallons per day at max capacity).
Status on the three reservoirs.
https://mwrd.org/what-we-do/tunnel-and-reservoir-plan-tarp/tunnel-and-reservoir-plan-tarp-reservoir-levels
#local
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