Chicago Water Treatment Plant Tours

You may access a virtual tour of our o brien water reclamation plant on our youtube channel.

Chicago water treatment plant tours. The plant was completed as a design build process is leed certified and utilizes many innovative treatment technologies. Stickney water reclamation plant tour metropolitan water reclamation district of greater chicago. Go behind the scenes of one of the largest wastewater treatment facilities in the world. We offer facility tours for groups of up to 30 tuesday friday.

The jardine water purification plant formerly the central district filtration plant is a water filtration plant located at 1000 east ohio street north of navy pier in chicago illinois it draws raw water from two of the city s water cribs far offshore in lake michigan and supplies two thirds of city of chicago provided water to consumers in the northern downtown and western parts of the. Tours are tuesday through friday and are scheduled upon request. While the launch coincides with a broader lack of access to site tours due to the covid 19 pandemic cabuang said the motivation for creating an online experience was to ensure everyone everywhere could learn about the importance of the urban water cycle. Tours are available at the following facilities.

And must start no later than 1 00 p m. 2 5 hour tour stickney wrp 6001 w. You ll get to see the first pumping station built in 1930 and also take a tour of the new state of the art facility built in 2007. You ll get to see the first pumping station built in 1930 and also take a tour of the new state of the art facility built in 2007.

The western treatment plant is one of our most popular tour sites. The lincoln facility is much closer to uiuc s. Water reclamation plants wrp. Stickney water reclamation plant tour go behind the scenes of one of the largest wastewater treatment facilities in the world.

We also had the opportunity to tour the lincoln avenue water treatment facility.