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Calumet River Cook County and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago East Dundee Barrington Hills South Barrington Barrington Inverness Deer Park Palatine Rolling Meadows Buffalo Grove Arlington Heights Wheeling Prospect Heights Mount Prospect Deerfield Glencoe Northbrook Winnetka Northfield Glenview Kenilworth Wilmette L A K E M I C H I G A N Elgin Streamwood Bartlett Hoffman Estates Hanover Park Schaumburg Roselle Salt Creek Elk Grove Des Plaines Des Plaines River Rosemont Park Ridge Niles Golf Morton Grove Skokie Lincolnwood Evanston North Shore Channel North Branch Population (2000) Square Miles Chicago 2,896,016 228 Suburbs 2,480,725 726 Cook County 5,376,741 954 Population over 50,000 Arlington Heights Berwyn Cicero Des Plaines Evanston Mount Prospect Oak Lawn Oak Park Orland Park Palatine Schaumburg Skokie Population over 30,000 Calumet City Chicago Heights Elk Grove Village Glenview Harvey Hoffman Estates Niles Northbrook Park Ridge Streamwood Tinley Park Wheeling Bensenville Northlake Schiller Park Franklin Park Melrose Stone Park Park Norridge Harwood Heights River Grove Elmwood Park River Forest Oak Berkeley Bellwood Park Hillside Maywood Elmhurst Forest Park Broadview Westchester North Berwyn Riverside Cicero La Grange Park Riverside Brookfield Stickney Western La Stickney Springs Grange Forest View McCook Hinsdale Countryside Summit Indian Head Park Burr Ridge Hodgkins Bedford Park Justice Burbank Bridgeview Willow Springs Hometown Hickory Hills Des Plaines River Cal-Sag Channel Palos Hills Chicago Ridge Oak Lawn Chicago River Main Channel Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Evergreen Park Chicago Lemont Palos Park Worth Palos Heights Alsip Merrionette Park Calumet Blue Park Island Orland Park Oak Forest Robbins Crestwood Midlothian Posen Riverdale Dixmoor Harvey Phoenix Dolton Little Calumet River Burnham Calumet City Cook County Limits Orland Hills Tinley Park Country Club Hills Markham Hazel Crest East Hazel Crest Homewood South Holland Thornton Lansing MWRDGC Limits 1 5 North Miles The MWRDGC has responsibility for Stormwater Management for all of Cook County, including areas that currently lie outside the MWRDGC's boundaries. Frankfort Matteson Richton Park University Park Flossmoor Olympia Fields Park Forest Chicago Heights South Chicago Heights Glenwood Ford Heights Steger Sauk Village Lynwood i
METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO 2009 BUDGET DESCRIPTION OF THE METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO: ITS HISTORY, LOCATION, SIZE, POPULATION, AND TYPE OF GOVERNMENT District and History The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District) is an independent government and taxing body encompassing approximately 91 percent of the land area and 98 percent of the assessed valuation of Cook County, Illinois. The District is a separate legal entity sharing an overlapping tax base with the City of Chicago, the Chicago Board of Education, the Chicago School Finance Authority, the County of Cook, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Public Building Commission, the Cook County Community College District, and various municipalities and school districts outside the City of Chicago but within the District’s boundaries. The District was originally organized as the Sanitary District of Chicago in 1889 under an act of the Illinois General Assembly which has been modified from time to time to increase the District’s authority and jurisdiction. The enabling act in 1889 was in direct response to a long standing problem with contamination of the water supply and nuisance conditions of the rivers. The District reversed the flow of the Chicago and Calumet River Systems to stop the discharge of sewage to Lake Michigan and instead, discharge it to the Des Plaines River, where it could be diluted as it flowed into the Illinois River and eventually the Mississippi River. Prior to the District’s construction of a 61.3 mile system of canals and waterway improvements, the Chicago and Calumet River Systems were tributary to Lake Michigan. These river systems are now tributary to the Illinois River system. From 1955 through 1988, the District was called The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. In order to provide a more accurate perception of the District’s current functions and responsibilities, the name was changed effective, January 1, 1989, to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Mission and Responsibilities The mission of the District is to protect the health and safety of the public in its service area, protect the quality of the water supply source (Lake Michigan), improve the quality of water in watercourses in its service area, protect businesses and homes from flood damages, and manage water as a vital resource for its service area. The District collects wastewater from municipalities in its service area, conveys it to wastewater reclamation plants, provides full secondary treatment and discharges clean water to local waterways. The District is also responsible for stormwater management for all of Cook County, including areas outside of the District’s corporate boundaries for wastewater services. Services The District’s seven modern water reclamation plants provide excellent treatment for residential and industrial wastewater, meeting permitted discharge limits virtually at all times. The treatment process is protected by a pretreatment program to guard against hazardous substances and toxic chemicals. These are strictly regulated pursuant to federal and state requirements. The District routinely monitors all industries and nonresidential sources to assure that wastes are disposed of in an environmentally responsible and lawful manner. Treated wastewater, along with runoff from rainfall, enters local canals, rivers and streams that serve as headwaters of the Illinois River system. Stormwater in the separate sewered area is controlled to reduce flood damages by a number of stormwater detention reservoirs. In the combined sewer area, the District’s tunnel and reservoir project has significantly reduced basement backup and overflows to local waterways. Flow within the District’s waterway system and the Lake Michigan discretionary diversion flow are controlled by three inlet structures on Lake Michigan: Wilmette Pumping Station, Chicago River Controlling Works and O’Brien Lock and Dam. The single outlet control structure is the Lockport Lock and Powerhouse. While exercising no direct control over wastewater collection systems owned and maintained by cities, villages, sewer districts and utilities, the District does control municipal sewer construction by permits outside the city of Chicago. It also owns a network of intercepting sewers to convey wastewater from the local collection systems to the water reclamation plants. Facilities The District is located primarily within the boundaries of Cook County, Illinois. The District serves an area of 883.5 square miles which includes the City of Chicago and 125 suburban communities. The District serves an equivalent population of 10.35 million people; 5.25 million real people, a commercial and industrial equivalent of 4.5 million people, and a combined sewer overflow equivalent of 0.6 million people. The District’s 554 miles of intercepting sewers and force mains range in size from 12 inches to 27 feet in diameter, and are fed by approximately 10,000 local sewer system connections. ii ii
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