Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, and Founding Editor of Chicago Wilderness Magazine
Jun 12, 2019 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
U may have heard that May was the wettest on record for northern Illinois since we started measuring rainfall in 1871, outstripping the prior record, which occurred just last year. Cook Co recorded 8.25” of rain in May, roughly 20% of the total annual rainfall in 1 month! 1/
During the month of May, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Tunnel and Reservoir system intercepted nearly 13.6 billion gallons of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). 2/