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- The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Illinois is one of the largest wastewater-treatment facilities in the world, serving about 2.3 million people and cleaning an average of 700 million gallons of wastewater a day. During rainfall, the facility can handle a whopping 1.44 billion gallons of wastewater in a single day - that's a million gallons every minute.
The clean water is released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, and the sludge that is removed from the water is converted to biosolids, which are a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers.
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I just received my water garbage and sewage bill from the city of Chicago watching this makes me want to to pay my bill now
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This man is on a campaign against wipes and I’m here for it.
Do u guys not use water ?
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@@zakiboug6685 Honestly, just use a bidet.
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The Engineering behind these machines is outstanding.
Flushable wipes aren't flushable? How are companies allowed to get away with calling them flushable? 🤔
MONEY!
Joe needs to file a lawsuit asap - he must be too busy being practical.
What do you mean, you can flush them that's the whole thing. They don't say they'll break down, just that you can flush them...
I can tell you from experience that they cause many many problems within the system. The bar screens are inadequate to filter them out.
They’re trying to get the PSA out, not to flush wipes. It’s not just the bar screens that get fouled. They plug pumps and ultimately settle out in the digesters, where they consume space and cut detention times until the digester can be cleaned. STOP FLUSHING WIPES PEOPLE!
The smell that greets drivers on I-55
Smells like a pay check to me
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Instant Pink eye 💀
Ah yes the smell of this on the Stevenson. Kinda like the smell on the Eisenhower passing through Hillside.
Stinkney! Glad to finally see a solid video on what goes on there. Makes me appreciate it even more
Wish this flick was longer, I would definitely enjoy a 45-minute deep dive into the specifics of that facility. Good Job
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I went here in highschool, very interesting place. The smell is absolutely brutal though. As soon as you drive into Stickney, it just hits you. 😂
@@dannyfleck9051what does it smell like?
@@davidsuch8942 kinda like a giant farted. Interstate 55 goes past the area.. Anyone who's driven around there knows that smell
Every country needs this
Every state needs it too
Bro, your water is not ment for human consumption in my country😂Greeting from a Dutch guy😂
@@Daniel-qz8bpthis is waste treatment to go back into system, not to provide drinkable water. Does nationalism make you dense or is it just naturally difficult?
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@@Daniel-qz8bp it’s literally in video. How about you go and watch it and save us brain cells from your idiocy. Stop embarrassing your fellow countrymen.
If you were still flushing "flushable" wipes before seeing this video, this is your sign to stop doing so henceforth.
No
Just make sure you flush after every single wipe Do not get a bunch of them in there
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My dad worked in both water & wastewater treatment, so I visited both treatment plants several times growing up. I always found it fascinating, even the wastewater plant, but the smell definitely isn't fun.
The smells isn’t bad only in the grit room
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6:38 casually has raw sewage in a jar on his desk
who doesn't?
When you working that field you get used to it but yeah don't drop the jar the soap won't help you
AND HE GRABBED IT WITHOUT GLOVES
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I live less than two miles from here. Glad to see the process in action. I'll never complain about the smell ever again
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This process is so underrated.
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Hundreds of farms across America used wastewater sludge as cheap fertilizer to fertilize crops for people and animals to graze, but absurd levels of PFA's levels were detected in the meat and vegetables above the FDA allowed levels.
And heavy metals
It's almost like there's corruption in the government, particularly when big corporations are allowed to police themselves. 🤔
Wastewater sludge should be sent to landfills, not used as fertilizer. There are likely many substances including PFAS present in the sludge, I would be concerned about microplastics as well.
Nice narrator, clear enunciation and nice voice. She did a good job
With the power of AI
i know right, its so soothing
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@@Phoenix-zu6onshe has been working with different accents. Each time I hear her voice she is trying to g in a new accent.
I like how she enunciated “fartilizer”
I live in Chicago and I didn't know anything about the water treatment plant... Is amazing... I promise never flush any wipes on my toilet, I will make sure my childrens do the same...
Every country should be envy of this.
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The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant's innovative approach to transforming waste into resources is a compelling example of sustainable urban infrastructure. This facility not only safeguards public health by treating wastewater but also contributes to environmental conservation by recycling it into energy and fertilizer. 💧
Did you know its possible to get sick from tap water? and that brain eating amoebas can be in tap water? The water could be worse, but there is an outdated bare minimum so it could be better. The USA has NASA technology for filtration that is only privately used, when it could be utilized for the public.
This reminds me of my internship era. I was assigned to evaluate industrial waste water treatment, and this video is very acurate. They didn't sugar coat about the smell 😂
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God bless all of these people for their hard work! Thank you.
I never realized how clean a waste water treatment plant would be. This was fascinating!
Also if new to cooking, please when handling waste cooking oil, put it into a waste container (bunched up aluminum foil works), let it cool/solidify & chuck it into the trash. Simply dumping in your sink puts at high risk your sewer pipes clogging once cooling & solidifying.
The combination of cooking oil & toilet paper does in even the craziest of sewage pipes.
This coming from a water resources engineer.
Second this as a sewer service technician
Thank you for taking care of the things that i flush ❤
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I work at Upper Occoquan Service Authority in Virginia. It is cool to see another organization’s process. I thought we were big at 38MGD!
Great video. Really put everything I just learned in my intro to environmental engineering course at uni into perspective. Makes me want to contribute!
This was really fascinating!
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I love that I just stumbled upon this clip!
I would've liked a mention of PFAS (forever chemicals), heavy metals, etc and how they are (or are not) removed from the biosolids.
Exactly what I said. Those little savior pellets they love are ruining farmers lives and possibly damaging our health along the way. Pfas, lead other toxic forever chemicals are plentiful and now they're planting it directly into our food source...
They are not.
Most water treatment plants aren't equipped to remove or treat water from pfas/micro plastics. Recently the EPA has been authorized to come after PFAS manufacturers that knowingly release it into the environment, and water municipal suppliers will have to get equipment to detect and remove 6 types of PFAS chemicals. (There's a lot more forms of PFAS chemicals but these 6 are the most widely circulating and toxic)
Personaly I'm wondering how water bottle manufacturers are gonna repackage water.
If they stay in our bodies and they find them in rain then I'm sure they arent removing them anytime soon. It's already in the rain cycle and all sorts of other things.
You know they're called 'forever chemicals' for a reason right? The relative low reactivity of perfluronated compounds makes removal without more elaborate (and expensive at this scale) infrastructure impossible. Same applies for heavy metals, a simple ion-exchange resin/bed would do but again - expensive. Given we're talking public infrastructure, thats coming out of the taxpayers pocket first.
This is impressive.
It is a fascinating story of the work done by remarkable people who are rarely seen but make a great difference to the quality of life and living.
I love my flushable wipes
They keep me so clean inside😮😊
What a great project👍🔥🇰🇿
Good job! Keep it up
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So thankful people are willing to work at these plants as many of us wouldn't be able to take the smell.
Great thing. Every city should have someting like that or similar
15 yr operator in Ontario, this video was pretty good aside from attributing primary sludge reoval to the grit tanks. Looks all disturbingly too familiar
Where are you located? Just wonder where alot of the discharge for major population centres end up.
@@bok.. Ends up in the rivers and lakes. Ontario’s major cities have really high wastewater discharge standards
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Same here, peel and Hamilton
Amazing! Everyone should watch it this and might learn something at least I did.
This is incredible engineering and science.
I work at Blue Plains Wwtp in DC..I find this fascinating
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Very educational.
Here in the UK when we get excessive rain the water companies just dump untreated sewage straight into the rivers and waterways.
Having worked for Waste Management I couldn't help but smile when the guy was talking about the crazy things he's seen come down. I can definitely relate/imagine 😂😂😂😂😂
Love his Chicago accent ❤
Did some plastic lining of a plant in Australia, honestly the smell isn't that bad you get use to sewer pretty easy, grease traps are way worse. Funny though i didn't see any ducks in their ponds, we use to have a bunch of ducks in the long tanks...
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They don't called it "Stinkey" for no reason...😂😂 every time I drive past it I have to remember to close the windows and turn the air on recirculate lol
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Smells really nice working there
Very cool! I wonder if microplastics entering the fertilizers is a concern at this stage (and ways to minimize it)
Very interesting video
Glad to see my career field being shown too the masses many people never give a second thought when they flush
In the UK we just dump it straight into the rivers and seas. Very refreshing to see the process here.
It really depends on the wipe, generally those wipes never break down (as seen from the jar lol). I've had brands that disintegrate after sitting in the toilet water, but they suck for wiping.
Just get a trash can with a lid and throw them away instead.
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They are not flushable ! My toilet advertises flushing 8 billiard balls at once. Does not mean I am going to do it.
A remarkable feat of engineering!
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Very, very good, I like it.
Lol the swisher wrapper 0:38
A suggestion which US can implement to remove flushable wipes is to promote the use of health faucets to clean
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I’m gonna start flushing wipes now 😁
Sadly, we (locals)aren't allowed to collect some the compost anymore :/ they cancel the program
Judging from all the pickup trucks I’ve seen filling up over on Pershing, people were probably abusing it and turning a profit.
(Student here) You cant pick up the treated sludge as fertilizer anymore?
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The company speaker looks like he loves his job 😊
Most communities allow citizens or school students tour facilities when asked. Some even have open houses yearly for public awareness. Most people are shocked and amazed seeing what's involved with wastewater treatment.
Million gallons of water cleaning wonderful machines
After working in a facility with a 1mgd capacity; 1mg per minute is insane.
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Are they going to do anything about PFAS in water with these processes?
I asked myself this question where does all these soap liquids sewers oil especially when I go to those big stores and I saw dish washing liquids go am in ny great job Georgia
How I wish I could have the chance to work in such facility after I graduated. But too late now as I’ve forgot most wastewater treatment theory learnt in university 😅
I lived in Stickney for 12 years (grew up around Stickney my whole life). We call it Stinkney for a reason. The whole village smells like $#!t after heavy rains. Add being in the direct flight path to Midway Airport's Runway 13C, and low-flying planes coming in for arrival every 3 minutes, and it's a great place to live!
Amazing
I got to visit here for boyscouts. A lot went over my head but it is extremely interesting. It also only really smells bad at that first part with the screens, the rest of the plant is pretty tolerable
Beautiful Voice.
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can you explain this process to thames water company in london ? they are about to go bankrupt but still pay shareholders dividends
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With a properly designed negative pressure system, your headworks can smell exactly like it does outside.
Seen it done.
Yes I’m a building mechanical engineer and this is part of our design
3:30 Use freaking bidet! fking wipers
30 years ago I visited my towns wastewater facility with my school, they did things exactly the same back then, the only difference is that here we are not allowed to use the bio solids as fertilizer because of the high levels of heavy metals, it's kind of sad to see that now 30 years later they still haven't found a solution to that problem (but I guess it all comes down to funding, more important to give tax cuts to the 1%)
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In the process of making biofertilizers does small or micro plastic gets into the fertilizer?
In Pittsburgh, at Alcosan the water goes back into the river as drinking water. That should be the standard.
Be careful to unferstand that Chicago has many combined sewers. That is, rainwater (aka stormwater) goes into drains that enter the sewer system. Many years ago, Chicago constructed a huge underground storage system for combined sewer overflows that occur when the sewage collection system is overwhelmed by rainwater and would BEFORE the construction of underground storage, go directly to the river. Now it slowly goes to the wastewater treatment plant. Modern development of small cities have a separate collection system for stormwater. This allows wastewater treatment plants to operate far more efficiently.
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5 year WW and fresh water operator in NW Indiana. I'd love to visit this plant.
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“We have to get those removed” may be the most ominous phrase ever said at a waste treatment facility
I could never shake that dude’s hand
It's it's everywhere and I'm cleaning it cleaned up
😅My dad was a class A waste water treatment plant operator for decades in Sarasota. As a kid,I went to work with him sometimes so I've seen this on a much smaller scale. So yes, it smells, lol.
Ive fixed many valves and actuators
lol the swisher sweet pack
Would it be practical to incinerate the physical waste collected (that is sent to landfills) and generate additional energy to the plant? The output of the incinerator can then be run through wet scrubbers that are serviced by some of the treated water and this could be then fed back into the treatment system to handle the additional sludge.
here in Chicago we call that town Stinkey
Send this to CDMX ❤
You mean built this in all México.
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Back in university we used biosolids for the nutrient base in microbiology agar plates and tested several pathogenic bacteria to see how they grew.
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Getting off of the Central exit on the 55. He said it doesn’t smell bad, but u think his nose got so used to it. Im in my car and it still smells really bad during hot days 🤣
Working for outhouse cleaning or city jobs tht one new hire always says “damn y’all smell tht,” I always respond with “Smells like Money my boy mmm” 😂🤝🏽
The guy in this video could be with Chris Farley, Mike Myers, etc. in the Bears Superfans skits on SNL.
There was no mention of the effluent being disinfected by chlorine or UV light before being released into the environment. Where I’m from, all of water reclamation plants use chlorine before releasing the water.
This plant is massive. TBH I’m good on the wastewater treatment. Potable water is so much easier to do plus a heck of a lot less work. We treat usually 20-30 million gallons per day at my plant and it’s pretty chill.
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4:17 Bro been working there for years ofcourse he used to the smell for saying it doesn't smell so bad.😂
What about medication remainings inside the water?
These folks are doing the lords work…🙌🙌
Went to this place for a tour when i went to moraine community college. It was awesome but the smell was horrendous 😂
Jakarta needs this
Does this process kill all diseases, oros the water contaminated
No tertiary treatment? How can they discharge to surface water without disinfection?
Also the biosolids are a PFAS contamination risk.
Cleaned these tanks out plenty of times.
Do like LA and run it thru filters and put it back for people to drink !