Great to see the engineering work all come together.
@richb5562
8 жыл бұрын
congrats to the carpenter's and all the hard work
@Romany1111
4 жыл бұрын
The carpenter's what?
@bababooey7576
4 жыл бұрын
@@Romany1111 I do that all the time to people who don't understand apostrophes. Haha
@carlsaganlives5112
3 жыл бұрын
They stopped recording/touring after Karen passed away due to anorexia. Richard still performs as a solo act occasionally.
@geoffreylee5199
4 жыл бұрын
The aroma must be cheerful ... those the quarries on either side of Interstate west of Chicago?
@Mangotheconure
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, can be seen from I-80 / 294. I'm delivering a load to Thornton tomorrow and decided to finally research these giant holes. I thought it was a mining site but after digging deeper (no pun), I learned about the flooding issues Chicago faces on the regular. Very interesting.
@bindig1
3 жыл бұрын
So I guess now driving over the facility on I-80 smells really bad?
@nomdeplume8355
6 ай бұрын
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
@mwrdgc
6 ай бұрын
We have a pumping station at our Calumet Water Reclamation Plant to pump water out of the Calumet TARP system, including Thornton Reservoir, to be cleaned before it is released to the river. The pumping station is the lowest point in the system, below the elevation of the floor of the reservoir - kind of like a giant sump pump. The reservoir drains out the the same tunnel where the water flows in... and that tunnel is sloped slightly uphill to the reservoir. Although there is a gate structure to isolate the reservoir from the tunnels if necessary, it is normally kept open and water is drained out of the both the reservoir and tunnels together. The water in the whole system flows downhill by gravity to the lowest point, the pumping station at our Calumet plant. Does this make sense? 🧐
@tytrehalf5354
8 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on job well done.
@ILGuy2012
3 жыл бұрын
How does the water get pumped out of the reservoir to be cleaned? Is it pumped back through the tunnel or is there a separate return pipe?
@carlsaganlives5112
3 жыл бұрын
It flows back naturally during low tide.
@dustinboyd7568
8 жыл бұрын
I hope they plan to address the smell.
@tomforum1
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, they did, they did. They moved it to the Thornton Composite Reservoir.
@raven1bjr888
8 жыл бұрын
Would that have prevented our basements from being flooded during the big 2008 storm? Will that prevent all 182,000 buildings from flooding?
@trueword247
Жыл бұрын
It's not an absolute and guaranteed fix for every southland residence but it is a VERY SIGNIFICANT help to prevention of residential and commercial flooding.
@Valkron11
Ай бұрын
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 🙄
@erikthe10man
9 жыл бұрын
Who in the hell downvotes a reservoir???
@ddsr86
9 жыл бұрын
+erikthe10man A dumbass
@dscot
8 жыл бұрын
I thought about down voting because of the raindrops obstructing the view, but I didn't wanna be a jerk who missed the point...or be on the receiving end of comments like this one.
@leerusch7392
6 ай бұрын
Come smell it today. You'll understand why. 🤢🤮
@rael5469
2 ай бұрын
NO SWIMMING !
@miseagency
9 жыл бұрын
Hoping to talk to someone with MWRD Public Affairs about a project for the Thornton Quarry, who would be the best person to reach out to?
@iamrepete
9 жыл бұрын
+Brent Beck For additional information, to register for a facility tour or to sign up for news releases, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 312-751-6633 or e-mail: public.affairs@mwrd.org. I don't know the best person for your project,but someone will be able to help you;the MWRD is a helpful organization.
@katadored5699
9 жыл бұрын
+Brent Beck that IS the Thornton Quarry.
@KingSpaceySprockets
Жыл бұрын
that's a lot of dookie
@raven1bjr888
8 жыл бұрын
This thing did no good whatsoever during the last flood in South Holland. VERY DISAPPOINTED!
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