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Dave Stadt wrote:
"George Patterson" wrote in message
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But those airports don't sit in the water supply for 7 million
people.

Chicago used to pull its water from the river and dump its sewage in
the
lake.
This has changed?

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights
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.

Many beaches are closed for extensive periods in the
summer due to you know what. They call it some fancy name but the truth
is
it is crap in the water.

Mostly storm sewer overflow, little solid matter visible.

Storm water overflow does not cause beaches to be closed. Raw sewage does.
You don't need to see solid matter for the sewage to be present.