Title and State, Please!!!! Traditional Cache
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Title and State, Please!!!!
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Chicken in a car, See car go - That is how you spell "CHICAGO". Some history about when in 1900 the flow of
Chicago River reversed.
The sewerage system of early Chicago was primitive, with gutters serving as drains in many streets. Improvements were made in the sewerage system using underground pipes, but they discharged either directly into Lake Michigan or into the river which flowed into the lake. The water cribs were being pushed farther out into the lake to escape the wastes, but the effort was not successful. People were plagued by typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery.
In 1854, a cholera epidemic took the lives of 5 1/2 per cent of the population. Deaths from typhoid fever between 1860 and 1900 averaged 65 per 100,000 population a year. The worst year was 1891, when the typhoid death rate was 174 per 100,000 persons. Disease resulting from water polluted by human waste brought about a state of emergency.
In 1887 it was decided to attempt a bold engineering feat and reverse the Chicago River. Rudolph Hering, chief engineer of the drainage and water supply commission, noted that the Great Lakes drainage system was separated from the Mississippi River drainage system by a summit or ridge approximately 8 feet high located some 12 miles west of the lake shore. A plan was evolved to cut through that ridge with a canal from the southerly tip of the south branch of the Chicago River and carry the wastes away from the lake and down to the Mississippi River through the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers. The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago was created in 1889 under a law passed by the state legislature to effect this plan.
Just your typical utility cache? When you log your find, be sure to include your "Title" (King, sir, Mrs., Ms, Old Guy) or nickname you go by. Also include your "State". This may be where you were born, favorite vacation spot, where you hope to retire or your current mental condition. Watch for muggles. No need to stomp the flowers to pick up this one.
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