It only happens when Chicago area waterway levels become higher than Lake Michigan.
Opening the flood gates and locks into the lake reduces river flooding and creates more capacity for stormwater in the area reservoirs. Chicagoland has a system of tunnels and reservoirs--part of the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan --to collect stormwater. Wednesday's storms filled the McCook reservoir to 90% of capacity.
The Kirie TARP system is comprised of the Kirie Tunnel and Majewski Reservoir.The McCook TARP system comprises the Mainstream Tunnel, Des Plaines Tunnel, and McCook Reservoir.Des Plaines Tunnel is 16% full=64 million gallonsThe Calumet TARP system comprises the Calumet Tunnel and Thornton Composite Reservoir.Thornton Composite Reservoir is 19% full=1.5 billion gallonsHere is a listing of the times MWRD took action to send water into Lake Michigan.
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