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i wonder if barbe will live under here

Good place to stick all the illegal immigrants

Good stuff champ. Always wondered abt these reservoirs

To have the Chicago Spire be replaced is just wrong! Somebody hurry please! Make a petition to stop the spire from being replaced!

We need some new all time high skyscraper that are noticable other than the sears tower(yes sears tower).

Retired MWRD pollution control officer here…made it as far as the drop shafts and visited numerous sampling locations where combined wastewater would enter the tunnel. Fortunately, the reservoirs are capable of handling the volume of water the tunnel can’t because those 1,000 year rain events are occurring every year and the tunnel only holds a few billion gallons. By the time I retired, Thornton still had some kinks to work out, McCook was good to go, and of course maintenance. Thornton is massive! For the record, the District is a self-taxing government body. We’re not affiliated with the city or Cook county, but home owners will recognize the organization in their property tax bill.

Why didn't they move further inland to build Chicago?

And the city stopped flooding people's basements with sewage after it was built

This might be the part alot of 1st timers are looking for 6:36

Ohh i bet that smells lovely in the quarry now.

Born and raised in a bungalow I guess I never knew the name n history til now

SNAKE PLISSKEN wanted this so when it get bad in Chicago may have an extra escape route.

It's a new ponzi scheme, check out how successful the deep tunnel was in Milwaukee. In this case successful means steals money.

since ive ever been doing chicago construction, and the surrounding towns, every contract has the property keeping all of the storm water on site, either in detention ponds, or underground chambers that are underneath the pavement. It adds like a million dollars to each job because the concrete chambers are like 400 grand, and then the labor and stone backfill. MWRD is your daddy, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, and you aren't building a single thing until you tell them where the water will go, and they say its okay to do that. I just had to bring it up cause you only mentioned bioswales, which are tiny and dont hold much anyways. Thats why theres a huge pond outside of every building, cause its cheaper to dig out a pond and haul off the dirt, then it is to dig out under the pavement and buy expensive concrete chambers, and still have to haul the dirt out.

I grew up in one of them in a city made of them. Just outside Chicago.

how to elliviate flooding 101

The Chicago "deep tunnel project" was started in the late 1960's and will NEVER BE FINISHED!!! The EPA, Bureau of Mines, et al: refuse to give further permits for work to proceed until an estimated $3 TRILLION dollar "human disruption" study is done. No one currently has an engineering degree in "Human Disruption", and no University offers the course...Your Feddle Tax Dollar$ at WA$TE!

I am 💯 sneakin in there

Great little video - tyvm. Keep in mind the context - Chicago is here BECAUSE if is flat and doesn't drain well - ( up ) the Chicago River - up a small hill and then trough a swamp ( Portage Park ) and you are on the Desplaines, which goes to the Illinois, and then to the Mississippi. This is the link between the Atlantic and the Gulf, and why people chose to live in a swamp.

Where'd they put the spoils?

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So are we just going to ignore the fact that all of these quarries that are being used to hold water are already contaminated with toxic tailings water? Filling the pits with water is just going to contaminate that water with the extremely toxic tailings water and spread that everywhere. This is shocking

Great video. You should look into Milwaukee's Deep Tunnel Project. It has been operational since 1994 and can hold over 500 million gallons of water!

The great lakes republic!

Wow! There’s something else going on besides vicious gang violence in Chicago. Cool

I never knew what that was for but always wonder but yes that is massive when you pass one. I see the one going to Indiana a lot

You know, I think the sewage overflows still happen in Chicago today. I know for a fact they happen in Milwaukee still. I think an average of five times per year, Milwaukee has to dump raw sewage into Lake Michigan because there is so much pavement and the storm drains cannot handle so much flash flood rain water at one time

I worked at a Chicago Engineering firm downtown in the 90's. We had to count every single main, valve and junction. Tedious job indeed.

Okay but I will be above ground ty. Good luck with that. The infastructure lay out feels like such a mess at times, what is going underground going to do? Doubt it helps. Yall put too much concrete and steel into 1 area, get over it.

There's something I don't get about this green infrastructure thing. Is it considered a good solution because the water is absorbed by the soil right at the place of deposition (untreated)? But the whole point of building the reservoirs was not to release untreated water into rivers and lakes, right?

I remember when they were dynamiting back in 1976 at my grandparents apartment and the whole building used to shake by elston and Lawrence

So instead of separating stormwater and wastewater and implementing water-sensitive urban design muricans decided to create combined gigantic tank for water mixed with shit. Interesting.

It moves very slow, just like everything in Chicago. Homes flood during big rain storms, so they better hurry up in this “project”. Should people submit claim damages to the city whenever basements flood at their homes during storms, until these “engineers” finally complete this so called “tunnel project”.

McCormick Res is in MCook, IL, not Bedford Park, it was long a quarry

The roads are higher in neighborhoods like piksen is because that is where all the debris from the Chicago fire went, they did it just raise it. It’s garbage

Chicago is the only chance of a new city with a new tallest building

I used to work in those tunnels in the 90s and early 2000's and was asked to resign when I accidentally discovered a plethora of hidden crypts which, it pains me to say this, which contain....vampires. Lots of vampires who masquerade as Chicago's financial elite at night but by day, they all sleep down there...resting and waiting. I never went down there night, of course. Only a complete fool would go down there at night...

I’ve lived in the Chicago suburbs my whole life, but the Deep Tunnel Project was just a name to me. Thank you for this very informative video!

Dude this hole has been there for 30+ years, don't monetize it.

I used to live in the suburbs and remember driving on a highway cutting across a quarry. I never read up on it though, and it's fascinating to learn about that really deep tunnel!

I always wondered what that big hole was.

Funded by el Chapo

What an amazing video! Very educational and well presented!

Can you believe Some people think the reason why there's houses that are much lower than the street is because of the "mud flood" catastrophe!!?? Like WTF ? And the buildings of the chicago world fair were actually from a long lost civilization called Tartaria. Which were demolished to cover this "knowledge" up 😂😂

Wow...I was on Google Earth trying to lookk this up a few weeks ago.

IT'S JUST A MONEY PIT THAT LIBERALS ARE STEALING TAX PAYERS MONEY FOR NOTHING. IT STILL FLOOD EVERYWHERE WHEN IT RAINS.

Oh, so this is what Cities Skylines was based off of... If you know, you know.

Curious how they "permanently" seal these reservoirs and tunnels

Chicago and Illinois has become politically motivated in everything they do. I absolutely do not trust anything the city or state does for the benefit of the people. Mark my words.

My husband is a MWRD (Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago) engineer.