Last Blast at MWRD Thornton Reservoir

[@leftyleftme3354]

“Wanna see the most underwhelming video on KZbin?” “Sure, what ya got?”

[@lukecaron831]

Why when all office people come on to a job site with shiny new helmets they never have them on straight

[@ryans9029]

Helmets? You are the office people.. 👏 It's a hardhat.

[@angelo_giachetti]

Lol

[@davidschick6951]

Because wearing them straight is boring

[@JohnWickkkk]

@@davidschick6951this ☝️

[@hanktraynor4423]

​@@ryans9029😂😂😂

[@Repoman46]

Bro's first time ever wearing a hardhat

[@cltransler]

Look at him with his jaunty chapeau...

[@cindymurray6699]

Its now 2018. Water is stagnant. On hot summer days, the stink carries for several miles.

[@victormodjeski4173]

That's just the usual Harvey stench.

[@bambur1]

What did you expect it's an open pit sewer. Im sure this came up in planning meetings, or not :)

[@timc7326]

Absolutely stupid

[@timc7326]

Stinks so bad

[@Mangotheconure]

Who in their right mind would ever consider living withing 4 miles of this gaping eyesore!? I feel for y'all. I drive over this every week and finally, I take a deep dive (no pun intended 🤣) into research and am pleasantly amazed at the vastness of this project.

[@kornami8678]

My friend's dad was an executive of Material Service back in the late 70s, who ran the quarry, and he took us down in the quarry to see it. Cool experience.

[@stephenconnor9385]

I had to go lie down,, I was so taken a back with the excitement

[@mikeyandash]

7.9billion gallons of water that was meant to be treated and discharged but never was

[@rasputinsorphan1260]

I thought we were going to get to see an explosion. Instead, we got Sgt. Safety and his pristine hardhat. Your thumbnail is clickbait and bilateral symmetry has left your face.

[@LuisLopez-rc8ev]

Very familiar for sure like it's on the Illinois side? 80/90?

[@ronald6138]

yes we finished it in 2013 , i started in 1977 at Howard & Mcormick in skoike ,il and in 2018 i retired .Yea

[@TexJester-no8th]

I've been driving by this quarry for decades in a truck. NEVER seen it with more than a bit of stagnant water in the bottom. I do remember seeing haul (dump) trucks going up and down, though ...

[@tedsmith6137]

Was that it? I assume you know the meaning on anticlimax.

[@derek6579]

Was that it?

[@BrainControl2691]

Wait. That was it? That was a pull my finger blast.

[@MatthewW713]

That is an insult to pull my finger blast

[@LuisLopez-rc8ev]

Looks familiar. Where exactly is this located

[@jasminsoto3769]

thornton il

[@ronald6138]

I80 at thorton Il it is /was the material service quarry it is a mile east of halsted st .this is on the north side quarry goes several miles south of the tollway .

[@MitchDonovan]

Hope no one crashes into it

[@davidgeorge5146]

Wow!!!

[@someguydino6770]

this man knows how to wear a hard hat with style

[@Baliverna]

He resembles Dan Aykroyd.

[@carlsaganlives5112]

Jaunty angle on the hardhat, too.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

"So our sewage and storm drainage systems are both ancient, interconnected, and prone to messy failures. We won't do anything about them, we'll just catch some of the mess and deal with that".

[@tomp8871]

so it was a fail and waste of money?

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

@@tomp8871 This is actually a problem with most cities around the Great Lakes. They're old cities built when people thought you could dump any amount of anything in water and it would just go away.

[@IDEALEGACY59]

🥂

[@Grcoon]

not last blast of quarry that’s for sure! house shakes everytime they blast

[@thephantomeagle2]

That's the north one that closed. It's now used as an overflow for downtown Chicago, so they don't have to worry about flooding. They're still using the others, so that's where the blasts are coming from.

[@Grcoon]

@@thephantomeagle2 wrong sir it’s used for sewage i live on wolcott st in thornton they release raw sewage into north quarry

[@thephantomeagle2]

@@Grcoon thanks

[@shaystern2453]

and all those people getting paid to stand there...

[@paulflynn2740]

Pay more taxes and live somewhere nicer duh

[@Grcoon]

it’s not taxes! it’s still cook county and cook county has highest taxes in state

[@JohnR.1968]

I bet that guy doesnt live near there. B.TW.wear your hard hat correctly. Mr. Side tilt.

[@PacoOtis]

Rather underwhelming! Best of luck!

[@silvercabin5130]

That looks more like a tax payers money pit. The only thing it will do is make money for the builders.

[@thelittleguy-ih8nv]

This shows how worthless office people are. And last blast!? Weakest blast I've ever seen and clearly was for show because you barely moved any dirt!

[@danmarklesr6260]

Crap reservoir. Nice hole!

[@SteveBurgess-j1i]

Doesn't even know how to wear a hard hat?

[@RJ-rn3uv]

What a waste.

[@fodank]

Well, that was pretty meh.