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Sewage and stormwater...just what I'd want in my reservoir...NOT!!!

35:40 That beat is hard as hell🔥🔥🕺

Amazing, we have a Thornton Reservoir here in the UK not far from my home and a great place to trout fish with a fly.

My friend's dad was an executive of Material Service back in the late 70s, who ran the quarry, and he took us down in the quarry to see it. Cool experience.

Illinois Grand Canyons

I didn’t know about the Lockport Hydro plants always hated driving down 1-55 in the summer passing the stickney plant

I didn’t know about the Lockport Hydro plants

So it's an open sewer pit water birds and others can access to spread whatever disease wherever they fly ?

I came to Chicago in Feb 15,59 and up to the present I had heard about Chicago s development but this story about its history is amazing. Thanks. This makes me think as to why my ancestors chose the mountains of PR to live. Fast flowing creeks and rivers and occasional water spring.

I have no idea how I ended up here... but this entire presentation was MASSIVELY fascinating!

I worked on this project I delivered concrete for the liner in the tunnel.

Have you maybe considered, you know, not combining rain water and poo poo water in the first place? Maybe treating the poopoo water before it goes into the giant smelly hole? Iunno, 50 years seems long enough a time to think about stuff like that before you get to this point.

Very interesting, great upload, thanks for sharing.

In The Netherlands we have them underground.

Wow! Great tour and wonderfully engaging presentation. Well done. ❤

That's the area my friends and I had keggers every weekend in the 80's. What an awesome time! Now it smells like San Francisco. What a shame 🙄

Fantastic video! Justin is the best narrator I have seen on RUclips. Great job.

Such a great approach to mitigating water issues.

This guy is great! I’m a Chicago history buff and I learned so much!

This is a wonderful video. When I was a senior in high school at Lyons Township in LaGrange IL (a suburb of Chicago) I had enrolled in an Environmental Science class as an elective & we actually did a tour of the Stickney IL plant. We were all amazed! This occurred in the spring of 1974 if I remember correctly. I must confess to feeling a bit grossed out by the lifesavers I saw hanging around on the various buildings where we were walking. Ok, we were only around 17 years old at the time, so yeah, we got grossed out easily. I'm so glad I took that class. I thought it was a fabulous tour of the facility.

Great virtual tour!

It is amazing how much critical infrastructure is hidden in plain sight. Thank you for putting together this video!

How do you cap off the other end to the sewer?

NO SWIMMING !

SO PEOPLE! GUESS WHAT! WE ARE DRINKING RECONSTITUTED WASTE WATER THAT IS BEING BOTTLED!

EBMUD states on its website regarding the use of rainwater harvested from a roof covered with asphalt shingles: “….While any material is usually acceptable, asphalt shingles may leach toxins and should not be used to collect water for vegetable gardens. ”

Thank you! This is the grate and very useful tour!

This is an amazing video! I was not planning to watch the whole hour, but I did. This man has a calling!

Thank you, using this as a guide for my first rain barrel!

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Truly a great video that coves so much ground in an hour. The presenter is a great choice given a demeanor that informs with a tad of humor -- certainly preferable over a stuffed shirt. The amount of work required to properly treat the wastewater of a large city is pretty staggering and it goes to show just where you tax dollars are going.

Thank your son for the huge improvement 🙏 very informative video! I'm going to look up those detailed historical photos, so interesting, I want to learn more about historical construction

me, at 0:05 - shit, this looks like any given neighborhood in Chicago them, at 0:10 - "We've teamed up with the metropolitan water reclamation district of greater Chicago..."

Well presented!

Powering a sewage plan with poop taking recycled energy to s whole different level lol

I have a question about both the composite and old transitional reservoirs kind of hinted at in the video: What's the process of dewatering them like? Are the tunnels used to divert the water into the reservoir also used to divert it back out, or are there other tunnels we can't see? I assume however it starts back that it has to travel downward. If the initial trip back is through the same tunnel; it also means that any tunnel that branchs off of it has to be valved or protected

Great video! Very educational and Justin doesn't a great job explaining all the machines and what takes place at the facilities. The Thorton reservoir is right next to i294 / i80 going toward Indiana. Very cool to pass by it!

Oh, wow! This was super educational and fun! I had a few questions, though I'm not sure if it adds to the understanding of the process. 1. In the final settling/sedimentation tanks, is the water coming in from the top of the structure in the middle of the tank and raining down, or is it leaving the structure at the center through the entire structure; and how does the treated water from the top leave the tank (gravity, pumping, etc.) and where does it go? 2. And related, how do you guys get what I assume you'd call the "flocculent" that settles after the flocculation process out of the tank? I imagine each municipal system does it little differently, but it's so cool to understand how the water is recycled.

Thank you for this video!

And how much do all these government ran projects cost the people of Chicago? Judging from the city deficit it must be a lot!

So glad i found your video. Your 11 yr old son is a genius.

great job excellent explanation.

Is Cicero considered a Flood Prone Property Acquisition Program?

Do you give tours?

The hose diameter will handle the overflow during a high period of rainfall? Seems small to me and that the barrel will overflow it’s rim during this (probably) short but possible period of time. Maybe drain the barrel before a storm to avoid. Thanks for the short video.

I love this video! I was glued from start to finish. GREAT host!

It takes a shit to know the shit business.

i live on archer in between ashland and Loomis. bubbly creek is 5 blocks away from my house. ever since I was a kid, I am 25 now, Ive always had questions about our sewer system, water treatment, the river, and bubbly creek. thanks for answering just about every question I could ever have

Loved this. Would also love to buy the host a beer sometime!

From the UK - A brilliant tour, well presented and very informative.