So Chicago: Deep tunnel, marvelous site

With the capacity to hold 7.9 billion gallons of water, the Thornton Composite Reservoir will create the largest basin of its kind in the world when it comes online. Workers talk about their passion and longtime investment in this massive engineering effort to keep Chicagoland from reverting to its swampland roots. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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[@thephantomeagle2]

I was living in the south Suburbs when this was being built. Once a day, around noonish, there would be a siren, and then a blast. Mind you this was 30 years go.

[@briananderson1246]

Cool 😎

[@cranke99]

I was going to Thornridge 30 years ago and when the little rumbles would happen we knew it was the quarry.

[@loribach534]

That's an immense wealth of knowledge and expertise within that group of men!

[@0fficialdregs]

to think that hole used to be a quarry from what i remember. even as an adult i still remember all the quarry work

[@benpeterson1238]

This was always the final intentions of the site, obviously they had to remove the stone to create the basin and were able to recuperate money by selling the rock

[@0fficialdregs]

@@benpeterson1238 cool

[@Tuberuser187]

@@benpeterson1238 So far sighted of them to have started this while 95% of the City didn't even exist! All the new drainage systems they are quarrying out over the last 150 years to make even larger reservoirs, its amazing!

[@quinnimon]

Been driving past this big hole in the earth for years now.

[@0fficialdregs]

same

[@YoungPatriot-cz1sq]

6 years later same

[@johnkempf1808]

I always thought it was a quarry.

[@westside04]

Thank you Chris walker 😎

[@gelatojack202]

I’ve been living in Chicago my whole life and I always wonder what this giant hole was for

[@DanStratocaster1]

Gelato Jack It was a stone quarry. 🙄

[@0fficialdregs]

@@DanStratocaster1 agreed

[@TeslaBoy123]

Limestone mine now city of chicago renting then to collect and clean billions gallons rain water before dumped In chicago river to go south to Mississippi River 😎

[@pshawnallen]

300' deep!!! I wish Houston engineers could go that deep with ours.

[@KingSpaceySprockets]

Shawn Allen im sure you are aware but Houston topography doesn’t allow that due to it being near to sea level. Also, this quarry is roughly ten miles away from the city. We have multiple ones across the Chicagoland area that serves the respective communities of our city. I visited Houston often as I have relatives down there and I know you guys have two large reservoirs west of Houston with a drainage system of bayous. Hopefully the engineers will figure out a solution for all the flooding that Houston gets as its been a major problem for decades and only getting worse due to climate change. I love Houston as a second city and would hate something like hurricane harvey happening again.

[@edcgearpocketknife]

I remember them building it. It has water in it now I think

[@0fficialdregs]

it was a quarry beforehand.

[@jrespinoza8025]

wow I always see that going over the highway I thought it as used for something else but I now know its used for this wow

[@0fficialdregs]

it used to be a quarry

[@ralfie8801]

It's always been a stone quarry, it's been repurposed now.

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Tunnel workers are great

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Wow those walls are massive. Hope they are solid

[@shakyhandpictures2185]

Safest place in Chicago.

[@rafaeldomingus1735]

Award.

[@MrSecretMansion]

Where is this, I've lived in the Chicago area for my whole life and I've never seen this or heard of it?

[@kobracommader]

+Xpry on I80 on the north side of the highway

[@jeffthomas6818]

You never heard of the deep tunnel? You must live under a rock.

[@neuman35]

This reservoir is located in Thornton Illinois, 27 miles directly South of downtown. I-80 runs through the center of the old quarry, the Northern side will be the reservoir and the other Southern half will remain a active limestone quarry.

[@Machiave11i]

If you've ever driven to Indiana the expressway goes directly over the quarry where the entrance is.

[@0fficialdregs]

@@Machiave11i yup

[@sharonfauber2118]

Amazing

[@JonathanGuzman-jh3sy]

Cool 😎

[@ryanschwartz8226]

So cool

[@cambo1200]

Always wondered what that giant hole was for.

[@denisecosta3275]

awesome

[@Mike351025]

Wow that's crazy

[@tbr2973]

Then why is half of Chicago under water??????

[@HC-cb4yp]

I still don't quite get with this is. Will flood waters go through the tunnels to the dam area?

[@johnkempf1808]

yes

[@JonathanGuzman-jh3sy]

It's a secret hideout for fish

[@michaelriehl7206]

Lock Mayor Beetlejuice Blighthood and her cronies in it....

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[@LShadow77]

I want to walk through this tunnel. Hey, anybody, send me the ticket to Chicago!:)

[@musclerussell8109]

All men work together it’s women who can’t work side by side. Come on man

[@TeslaBoy123]

Nobody know where water go after heavy rain and take a shower 🤔

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[@devoradamaris]

🕊🌐🕊

[@trentonjennings9105]

On a massive municipal project of this scale we can only begin to imagine the possible graft, kickbacks, cost overruns, and other corruption.

[@johnschmidt7588]

That’s the most negative shit I’ve heard about the greatest water reclamation plan man has ever seen. I don’t care what it takes, this is a massive benefit to all people in the Northern Mid-West community. It is probably the most important project the USA has ever done, especially since the Great Lakes are one of the largest fresh water supplies in the world.

[@stiffneck2090]

Here in St. Louis it's known as "Nepotism". The cost is factored in and most people don't even know.

[@johnschmidt7588]

@@stiffneck2090 nepotism, when you get a job or advantage through someone you know. Tell me one person who doesn’t do this. Answer: not one person on this Earth.

[@johnschmidt2964]

Yea ok hater, Chicago has the largest water project in the world to keep water clean and flowing. Wherever you’re from sucks I’m sure of this.

[@luke1035]

I wanna see ken block goon his way through there

[@jacobsena7694]

Yea Ken block and mad mike

[@IllusionGDP]

Sewer

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[@notleo3638]

John Lemon

[@JonathanGuzman-jh3sy]

Lmfao I had to rewatch it to get it

[@IllusionGDP]

Aaaaaa HELL

[@nate4745]

I thought this tunnel was being built by Chicago so that they could sell vast amounts of Great Lakes water to the desert states, and that that was stopped because the Great Lakes Basin is a closed eco-system that maintains itself. In the Basin, all water pumped out of the lakes, but stays within the basin, flows back into the lakes. Every inch the water level goes down is costly for shipping and tourism. The Great Lakes Basin Consortium, which is composed of surrounding states and Canada, strictly controls the water levels in the Great Lakes and doesn't allow water to leave the basin.

[@sauceboy_5930]

You are delusional.

[@luke1035]

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[@WN_Byers]

Lol Nestle

[@ghost307]

Someone's tinfoil hat is on too tight.

[@WN_Byers]

@@ghost307 google Lake Michigan pipeline? The idea been disc used fed for over 25 years

[@debeerpaul]

Godzilla's bathtub.

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[@henrysteinke5584]

Tbm

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[@pinkeye00]

Dude has never been to China

[@richardfoster9499]

It's like that part in the movie die hard with a vengeance when there driving dump trucks thru the tunnel then blow that plug that's holding all the water back flooding the tunnel

[@curtnicholson7771]

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