The Chicago area has traditionally been a pretty wet place, going back thousands and even millions of years.
at 4:30 p.m. July 23 at Pullman Exhibit Hall, 11141 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
“Oftentimes, the Illinois River would dry up, so this additional water was like a godsend,” he said. “But then as the sewage made its way down, along with the solids in the sewage, it became a real nuisance for cities right on the river like Joliet and Peoria. An odorous nuisance.” But converting the Calumet wouldn’t be as easy as the celebrated 1900 Chicago River reversal, which had caught the eye of officials in Washington, D.C.
“So the original Calumet-Sag Channel was very small,” Lanyon said. “It was no bigger than the I&M Canal in terms of width. That made it only a partial reversal of the Calumet River.” Now, “the Calumet plant treats the sewage from everything basically south of 87th Street — a population of a million or a million and a half people,” Lanyon said.
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