Episode 9: Chicago's Backwards River
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Episode 9: Chicago's Backwards River
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In this Episode of H2O and Beyond, join Mr. Dick Lanyon, former executive director of the Chicago MWRD, as we talk about how Chicago managed to reverse the flow of its river!
In the mid-late 1800s, the Chicago River, heavily polluted with human waste, flowed into Lake Michigan, the only water source for residents at the time. Waste began to accumulate in Lake Michigan, and so Ellis Chesbrough, the chief engineer of the city, devised a radical plan to reverse the flow of the river to divert the waste away.
0:00 Intro
2:10 What was happening in Chicago in the 1800s?
6:52 Consideration of possible solutions
8:01 Logistics of reversing the river
14:18 Construction begins
20:03 Role of immigrants in construction
24:38 What changed for Chicago?
29:28 Consequences on the communities downstream
32:24 Invasive species infiltrating the river
37:38 State of the river today
43:25 Closing
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