The Stickney, Illinois Water Reclamation Plant is one of the largest wastewater treatment facilities in the world, serving approximately 2.3 million people and cleaning an average of 700 million gallons of wastewater. wastewater per day. If it rains, the facility can treat 1.44 billion gallons of wastewater in a single day, or one million gallons per minute.
The clean water is released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, and the sludge removed from the water is converted into biosolids, which provide a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers.
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