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Sockpuppet8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/ … nd-storms/
It’s a mile long by 1/2 mile wide and is 450ft deep.
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SockpuppetRe: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
It’s part of one of the most expansive flood water control projects in human history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
First world states have stuff like that.
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Re: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
That's 10x the water of all of the Olympic (50m) pools in the US.
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Re: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
Sockpuppet wrote:
It’s part of one of the most expansive flood water control projects in human history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
First world states have stuff like that.
Substantially funded by the Federal Government.
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Re: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
Imagine the toilet shrimp in that!
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Re: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
Looks like there’s a big empty hole next to it. 
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SpankyRe: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
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Looks like there’s a big empty hole next to it.
That's an active aggregate quarry. Also, one of the largest in the world.
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SpankyRe: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
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That's 10x the water of all of the Olympic (50m) pools in the US.
That's an interesting factoid. Where did you get that from?
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Phillip_McCavityRe: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
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Imagine the toilet shrimp in that!
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SpankyRe: 8 billion gallon Thornton Quarry Reservoir is 94% full. If it overflows, 15 Chicago suburbs could be wiped out.
Phillip_McCavity wrote:
I missed that comment.
That's pretty good.
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