Flooding rains over the past few weeks have focused new attention on Cook County's massive deep tunnel system. In a FOX 32 special report, Dane Placko looks at how the system works and sometimes doesn't work as some question whether it will be able to handle more intense storms caused by climate change.
looks at how the system works and sometimes doesn't work as some question whether it will be able to handle more intense storms caused by climate change.
"It's huge, but we build big here in the Chicagoland area, but it's also to service this large population," said Patrick Jensen, MWRD principle civil engineer. "It fills pretty quickly, and it takes a while to empty it," said Dan Lyvers, MWRD’s chief operating engineer. When the rain stops, the water in the reservoirs is pumped to filtration plants where it's cleaned, then sent downriver to theThat's because more than 100 years ago, engineers pulled off a miracle and reversed the flow of the Chicago River, to keep raw sewage out of the water we drink in Lake Michigan.
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