The Chicago Medical Recorder Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Chicago Medical Recorder FEBRUARY, 1913. Original articles. CHICAGO DRAINAGE. By ARTHUR R. REYNOLDS, M. D. Faulty management by the trustees... more » of the Sanitary District during the past twelve or fifteen years has brought the drainage problem of Chicago and vicinity to a crisis. The scheme of drainage for Chicago, as laid out by its founders and enacted into law by the state of Illinois in 1889, was intended to be ample for the disposition of Chicago sewage by dilution for all time, as well as to provide a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river. It was intended that this sanitary waterway should be developed progressively in connection with a deep waterway from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The state law creating the Sanitary District provided that the rock cut of the canal should have capacity for a flow of not less than ten thousand cubic feet per second. The law directed the removal of the two state dams in the Illinois river and the removal of obstructions and the improvement of the channel in the Illinois and Des- plaines rivers for the purpose of avoiding overflow and damage. In a separate act the same Legislature, by joint resolution of the Senate and House, requested the United States to aid in the construction of a channel not less than twenty-two feet deep across the Chicago Divide between Lake Michigan and Lake Joliet and to project a channel of a depth of not less than fourteen feet between Joliet and La Salle on the Illinois river, all to be designed in such a manner as to permit future development to a greater capacity. The Government was requested to stop work upon the locks and dams then building at La Grange and Kampsville in the lower Illinois river and to apply its funds in such manner as to develop progressively all the de...« less