Stickney Water Reclamation, Cicero, Illinois, USA
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Chicago and its outlying suburbs create 1.5 billion gallons of wastewater every day. Since this isn’t the 1880s anymore and you can’t just let the effluence run back into Lake Michigan, you’ve got to clean it. Here. At the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth.
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The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is located on 570 acres of Cicero, Il, just southwest of Chicago. That’s big enough to warrant having its own railway—which it does. Processing upwards of 1.2 billion gallons per day (up from 787 million gallons/day in 2008), it serves 2.38 million people over 260 square miles including central Chicago and 43 suburban communities. It is one of six wastewater treatment plants and 23 pumping stations in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC). The Sanitary District has seven sectors, each delivering their bounty to one of the seven treatment plants via the sewers.
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