A new resource produced by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) aims to help communities manage stormwater through green infrastructure techniques that employ natural solutions to mitigate flooding and improve water quality.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) will kick off Black History Month with the sixth annual Pan-African flag raising ceremony at the Barbara J. McGowan Main Office Building and at all seven of the MWRD’s water reclamation plants on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, at 10 a.m.

Board meetings are open to the public and can be streamed online.

How and why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed

During their meeting, Durbin and President Steele spoke about securing federal reimbursement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for construction of the reservoir.

The reservoir has a capacity of 7.9 billion gallons and is connected to Chicago's Deep Tunnel network to prevent flooding — both in the form of basement backups and in the form of overflow of the banks of Thorn Creek.