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Dick Lanyon
May 1, 2024
MWRD, Your Sludge is Showing
Sewage consists of water and a lot of inorganic and organic substances that for simplicty's sake are called bad stuff.
Dick Lanyon
Feb 15, 2024
The Case of a Buried Bridge, the Million Dollar Bridle Path, and the North Side Sludge Line
On a May, 2023, spring day, an underground directional drilling machine for a new pipeline bumped into a solid object and stopped. The...
Dick Lanyon
Sep 25, 2023
Healthy and Sustainable Water Resources
Rapid urban growth of Chicago after incorporation as a city in 1837, gave rise to cholera epidemics aggravated by poor drainage and...
Dick Lanyon
Sep 25, 2023
Chicago Portage: A Lasting Gift
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette passed through what is known today as the Chicago Portage during their Voyage of Discovery in 1673,...
Dick Lanyon
Sep 21, 2023
CSDX39 and the History of the Sludge Express
CSDX is the reporting mark for the District’s local Short Line railroad, and CSDX 39 identifies a former District sludge dump car.
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