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$28M in federal flood aid designated for Chicago area

Plans move forward for Albany Park flood-control project

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago will chip in half of the money needed to build a tunnel designed to prevent flooding in the city’s Albany Park neighborhood.

The water district’s Board of Commissioners green-lighted Thursday a $24.7 million payment to the City of Chicago for the design and construction of the underground diversion tunnel. The city will match the MWRD’s contribution for the construction of the tunnel.

New fund aims to improve Chicago, Calumet rivers

MWRD green-lights contracts for Chicago River disinfection

Plans to disinfect the Chicago River are moving forward after the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners signed off Thursday on a pair of contracts with companies that will install disinfection facilities for portions of the river system.

Scientists testing Lake Michigan for microplastic pollution

Federal court to shape future of Chicago-area flood prevention

A federal judge is expected to rule by the end of this year on an agreement that governs how the Chicago area intends to prevent flooding and contaminated water, which has lately wreaked havoc on both Chicagoland properties and local waterways.

Plastic beads are the latest pollution threat to Great Lakes

Durbin blasts House cuts in Great Lakes spending

After tedious trip, giant magnet reaches Fermilab

Public meetings to flesh out sprawling MWRD stormwater legislation

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District will hold four public meetings over a two-week span to solicit feedback on the agency’s 159-page Cook County Watershed Management Ordinance, legislation that has been six years in the making.

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