Dave Stadt wrote:

belong
to
your slightly older self.

Chicago gets its water from cribs a couple of miles out in the lake.
During
heavy rain they dump raw sewage into the river and open the locks to let
it
run into the lake.

The last opening was 3 years ago. The deep tunnel and reservoir project
was built
to halt this.

Not much rain the last three years. The deep tunnel has reached saturation
a time or two which resulted in raw sewage going into the lake.

The "reservoir" part of TARP is still under construction, old gravel
quarries converted
to holding ponds. Milwaukee and Indiana discharges will still be an
issue.

JG