Emulated around the world and known famously as the Chicago region’s “Deep Tunnel,” TARP reduces flooding, improves water quality in Chicago area waterways and protects Lake Michigan from pollution caused by sewer overflows. 

In addition to providing healthier, safer and more inspiring outdoor spaces for students, these projects will help manage stormwater in neighborhoods that face frequent flooding.

These reaffirmations underscore the rating agencies’ ongoing confidence in the MWRD’s financial management, operational stability and commitment to maintaining long-term fiscal responsibility while protecting the region’s water environment.

“Case for Open-Source Process Control Algorithms in Wastewater Treatment to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Call to Academia for Climate Action” was recently published in the Environmental Science & Technology Journal.

MWRD commissioners, staff, local leaders and environmental experts exchanged strategies and success stories that focused on climate resilience, infrastructure improvements and community engagement.

Presentation topics at the workshop covered the MWRD’s stormwater management partnership programs, state emergency coordination framework, public health and community resilience, flood insurance coverage and consumer protections.

Board meetings are open to the public and can be streamed online.

Board meetings are open to the public and can be streamed online.

Considered an engineering marvel that reversed the flow of the Chicago River and transformed the city’s destiny, water from the Chicago River officially flowed into the canal for the first time in January 1900.

The MWRD will analyze the most at-risk portion of the local sanitary sewer system to determine infiltration and inflow sources within the nine communities, which are considered disproportionately impacted areas.