November 3, 1933 – Good news arrives in the city as the Federal Public
Works Administration sends an $8,000,000 check to the Chicago Sanitary District
as a down payment on the work that must be done in order to meet a U. S.
Supreme Court mandate that the city cut its diversion of Lake Michigan water
from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 1,500.
Another $130,000,000 for the project remains pending. The contract accompanying the allotment runs
to 33 pages and will ultimately lead to the employment of more that 3,000 men
in the completion of sewer work, primarily on the south and west sides of the
city, necessary to make the system ready for the impending drastic reduction in
lake water running through the river, the primary system for more than three
decades for cleansing the channel. Begun in 1922 the Calumet Sewage Treatment Works, pictured above, was expanded significantly with the money that came from the Federal Public Works Administration.
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