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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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@user-ye9sn5hp6c 26 дней назад

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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@Insider 21 день назад

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@izy0321 28 дней назад

This man is on a campaign against wipes and I’m here for it.

@zakiboug6685 25 дней назад

Do u guys not use water ?

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@modest_spice6083 22 дня назад

@@zakiboug6685 Honestly, just use a bidet.

@damian02161986 22 дня назад

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@Joe-sg9ll 21 день назад

@@zakiboug6685Pakistani?

@Alpha-Scythe23 21 день назад

The Engineering behind these machines is outstanding.

@user-bm6xz6pq5z Месяц назад

Flushable wipes aren't flushable? How are companies allowed to get away with calling them flushable? 🤔

@JFTW1337 Месяц назад

MONEY!

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Месяц назад

Joe needs to file a lawsuit asap - he must be too busy being practical.

@weasle5022 Месяц назад

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...

@clayrush1 Месяц назад

I can tell you from experience that they cause many many problems within the system. The bar screens are inadequate to filter them out.

@dgulley33 Месяц назад

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!

@joejonas3684 21 день назад

The smell that greets drivers on I-55

@robcaballero7964 19 дней назад

Smells like a pay check to me

@orangejjay 16 дней назад

@@robcaballero7964ok boomer

@SirCavemaninthewest 16 дней назад

Instant Pink eye 💀

@jpgtr84 16 дней назад

Ah yes the smell of this on the Stevenson. Kinda like the smell on the Eisenhower passing through Hillside.

@Maderasdesign 14 дней назад

Stinkney! Glad to finally see a solid video on what goes on there. Makes me appreciate it even more

@RamblingOmarr 22 дня назад

Wish this flick was longer, I would definitely enjoy a 45-minute deep dive into the specifics of that facility. Good Job

@Insider 21 день назад

Thanks for watching!

@dannyfleck9051 19 дней назад

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. 😂

@davidsuch8942 17 дней назад

@@dannyfleck9051what does it smell like?

@creativemindplay 17 дней назад

@@davidsuch8942 kinda like a giant farted. Interstate 55 goes past the area.. Anyone who's driven around there knows that smell

@hemanthkumar3757 Месяц назад

Every country needs this

@boohere2 Месяц назад

Every state needs it too

@Daniel-qz8bp 26 дней назад

Bro, your water is not ment for human consumption in my country😂Greeting from a Dutch guy😂

@Hikayuhuy 25 дней назад

⁠@@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?

@Daniel-qz8bp 25 дней назад

@@Hikayuhuy Back to where, make it make sense kid😭

@Hikayuhuy 25 дней назад

@@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.

@audikool Месяц назад

If you were still flushing "flushable" wipes before seeing this video, this is your sign to stop doing so henceforth.

@TheTotallyRealXiJinping 29 дней назад

@sitdowndogbreath 25 дней назад

Just make sure you flush after every single wipe Do not get a bunch of them in there

@gopackgo4036 24 дня назад

@@sitdowndogbreathtroll?

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@ManabiLT Месяц назад

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.

@Lumber91 26 дней назад

The smells isn’t bad only in the grit room

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@jkfdkjjd Месяц назад

6:38 casually has raw sewage in a jar on his desk

@olpporsetty Месяц назад

who doesn't?

@sitdowndogbreath 25 дней назад

When you working that field you get used to it but yeah don't drop the jar the soap won't help you

@drunkdonutboy 24 дня назад

AND HE GRABBED IT WITHOUT GLOVES

@jamesdick2604 24 дня назад

@@drunkdonutboy what's it like being extremely stupid?

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@beskarflowers 28 дней назад

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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@Insider 21 день назад

Thanks for watching!

@kode4420 20 дней назад

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@Martin_Priesthood 17 дней назад

😮😮😂😂😢

@pinga858 Месяц назад

This process is so underrated.

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@InYoPie 23 дня назад

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.

@350speedfreak 22 дня назад

And heavy metals

@orangejjay 16 дней назад

It's almost like there's corruption in the government, particularly when big corporations are allowed to police themselves. 🤔

@caladr9367 13 дней назад

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.

@eh.440 Месяц назад

Nice narrator, clear enunciation and nice voice. She did a good job

@hattemalhaar3135 25 дней назад

With the power of AI

@Phoenix-zu6on 25 дней назад

i know right, its so soothing

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@mytravls 23 дня назад

@@Phoenix-zu6onshe has been working with different accents. Each time I hear her voice she is trying to g in a new accent.

@Whitemink32 21 день назад

I like how she enunciated “fartilizer”

@quiensoyyo900 20 дней назад

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...

@stingawel 25 дней назад

Every country should be envy of this.

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@EcomCarl 22 дня назад

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. 💧

@HockeySniping 18 дней назад

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.

@noobricer Месяц назад

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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@Danny-fs1hk 20 дней назад

God bless all of these people for their hard work! Thank you.

@ntatenarin 11 дней назад

I never realized how clean a waste water treatment plant would be. This was fascinating!

@pauljackson171 23 дня назад

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.

@nathanielswanberg1612 19 дней назад

Second this as a sewer service technician

@darthandres3428 25 дней назад

Thank you for taking care of the things that i flush ❤

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@robcaballero7964 19 дней назад

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!

@iESTO818 18 дней назад

Great video. Really put everything I just learned in my intro to environmental engineering course at uni into perspective. Makes me want to contribute!

@Cadychan Месяц назад

This was really fascinating!

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@bdbeaudette 14 дней назад

I love that I just stumbled upon this clip!

@redbloodedbutterfly 29 дней назад

I would've liked a mention of PFAS (forever chemicals), heavy metals, etc and how they are (or are not) removed from the biosolids.

@TTOS69 27 дней назад

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...

@ImCaveJohnson 27 дней назад

They are not.

@codegeassfan4life28 26 дней назад

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.

@sethnaugle984 26 дней назад

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.

@ElSuperNova23 26 дней назад

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.

@kasondaleigh 23 дня назад

This is impressive.

@pooransingh1882 21 день назад

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.

@tevinlong4888 22 дня назад

I love my flushable wipes They keep me so clean inside😮😊

@amangeldimukayev 22 дня назад

What a great project👍🔥🇰🇿

@umairafzal13 27 дней назад

Good job! Keep it up

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@cactuscannon 22 дня назад

So thankful people are willing to work at these plants as many of us wouldn't be able to take the smell.

@ichdu3689 21 день назад

Great thing. Every city should have someting like that or similar

@patrickshea9392 Месяц назад

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

@bok.. 28 дней назад

Where are you located? Just wonder where alot of the discharge for major population centres end up.

@fredfeng5716 26 дней назад

@@bok.. Ends up in the rivers and lakes. Ontario’s major cities have really high wastewater discharge standards

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@tctk1 16 дней назад

Same here, peel and Hamilton

@ozzierun123 23 дня назад

Amazing! Everyone should watch it this and might learn something at least I did.

@DrewCuttill79 19 дней назад

This is incredible engineering and science.

@mattaford55 28 дней назад

I work at Blue Plains Wwtp in DC..I find this fascinating

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@davisluong2060 23 дня назад

Very educational.

@matt3789 20 дней назад

Here in the UK when we get excessive rain the water companies just dump untreated sewage straight into the rivers and waterways.

@ChiLouis69 9 дней назад

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 😂😂😂😂😂

@creativemindplay 17 дней назад

Love his Chicago accent ❤

@weasle5022 Месяц назад

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...

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@TimMorrall 3 дня назад

Retired from Fox Metro Water Reclamation. 33 years with a wonderful, dedicated family!

@dalouiev 27 дней назад

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

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@MasterslayerG 23 дня назад

Smells really nice working there

@anshumansuri2354 21 день назад

Very cool! I wonder if microplastics entering the fertilizers is a concern at this stage (and ways to minimize it)

@trentbulen3854 22 дня назад

Very interesting video

@dereckperez2624 14 дней назад

Glad to see my career field being shown too the masses many people never give a second thought when they flush

@mhwatts1 18 дней назад

In the UK we just dump it straight into the rivers and seas. Very refreshing to see the process here.

@defeatSpace Месяц назад

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.

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@robcaballero7964 19 дней назад

They are not flushable ! My toilet advertises flushing 8 billiard balls at once. Does not mean I am going to do it.

@TreDogOfficial 28 дней назад

A remarkable feat of engineering!

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@kingmanga.guatemala4229 19 дней назад

Very, very good, I like it.

@Splashhh_Ganggg 17 дней назад

Lol the swisher wrapper 0:38

@gaganabhishek7583 29 дней назад

A suggestion which US can implement to remove flushable wipes is to promote the use of health faucets to clean

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@mattck92 4 дня назад

I’m gonna start flushing wipes now 😁

@ismaela.6973 Месяц назад

Sadly, we (locals)aren't allowed to collect some the compost anymore :/ they cancel the program

@ebe2023 29 дней назад

Judging from all the pickup trucks I’ve seen filling up over on Pershing, people were probably abusing it and turning a profit.

@jubatus6420 26 дней назад

(Student here) You cant pick up the treated sludge as fertilizer anymore?

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@24mech 21 день назад

The company speaker looks like he loves his job 😊

@ryankortina9141 14 дней назад

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.

@mayurireddy8196 20 дней назад

Million gallons of water cleaning wonderful machines

@dwrecktheanimal 24 дня назад

After working in a facility with a 1mgd capacity; 1mg per minute is insane.

@RussianFans-vn6cj 23 дня назад

@FlameWaffle 20 дней назад

Are they going to do anything about PFAS in water with these processes?

@RishiSingh-cf9iv 19 дней назад

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

@qiyaan253 15 дней назад

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 😅

@mikeytown 19 дней назад

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!

@SydneyLee-hk2jm 14 дней назад

Amazing

@joshraebel2438 15 дней назад

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

@Wagonrider89 Месяц назад

Beautiful Voice.

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@simoncelt5590 Месяц назад

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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@alexanderx33 23 дня назад

With a properly designed negative pressure system, your headworks can smell exactly like it does outside. Seen it done.

@arnoldignacio1425 21 день назад

Yes I’m a building mechanical engineer and this is part of our design

@errminor3044 23 дня назад

3:30 Use freaking bidet! fking wipers

@erueru2014 24 дня назад

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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@vishalmangaraj 21 день назад

In the process of making biofertilizers does small or micro plastic gets into the fertilizer?

@trevorc4052 16 дней назад

In Pittsburgh, at Alcosan the water goes back into the river as drinking water. That should be the standard.

@cleanjordanlake 28 дней назад

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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@micahhopper346 Месяц назад

5 year WW and fresh water operator in NW Indiana. I'd love to visit this plant.

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@brimstonebull 20 дней назад

“We have to get those removed” may be the most ominous phrase ever said at a waste treatment facility

@daniell.6463 20 дней назад

I could never shake that dude’s hand

@LindaLouMiddleman-br1vi 19 дней назад

It's it's everywhere and I'm cleaning it cleaned up

@slick1ru2 23 дня назад

😅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.

@tttarms1970 16 дней назад

Ive fixed many valves and actuators

@Goofiest369 5 дней назад

lol the swisher sweet pack

@ds-xq7rr 13 дней назад

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.

@SnDigg 13 дней назад

here in Chicago we call that town Stinkey

@danielfernandeznungaray8996 Месяц назад

Send this to CDMX ❤

@DelPueblo-iy6oe 29 дней назад

You mean built this in all México.

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@JoeNielsen44 25 дней назад

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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@joshuamontanez3851 16 дней назад

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 🤣

@donjulio1292 22 дня назад

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” 😂🤝🏽

@JMB129 19 дней назад

The guy in this video could be with Chris Farley, Mike Myers, etc. in the Bears Superfans skits on SNL.

@poohmaster54 23 дня назад

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.

@goalieman206 24 дня назад

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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