{"id":542,"date":"2012-07-24T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=542"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:43:36","slug":"a-trip-to-an-asce-monument-of-the-millennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/a-trip-to-an-asce-monument-of-the-millennium\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to an ASCE monument of the millennium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a trip to Chicago last week, I had occasion to see one of the American Society of Civil Engineers\u2019 (ASCE) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asce.org\/PPLContent.aspx?id=2147486103\">monuments of the millennium<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asce.org\/People-and-Projects\/Projects\/Monuments-of-the-Millennium\/Chicago-Wastewater-System\/\">Chicago Wastewater System<\/a>.\u00a0 By the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, Chicagoans had heavily polluted the Chicago River by dumping all of their garbage in the water, which flowed into Lake Michigan, the source of the city\u2019s drinking supply.\u00a0 This caused deadly diseases such as cholera and typhus.\u00a0 To solve the problem, the flow of the Chicago River was reversed, sending it in the opposite direction from Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief documentary on the reversal of the Chicago River:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chicago River Reversal [HD]\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SAYtOcZdRmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a trip to Chicago last week, I had occasion to see one of the American Society of Civil Engineers\u2019 (ASCE) monuments of the millennium, the Chicago Wastewater System.\u00a0 By the end of the 19th century, Chicagoans had heavily polluted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/a-trip-to-an-asce-monument-of-the-millennium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,99,62,66,15],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-engineering","tag-places","tag-pollution","tag-u-s-a","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}