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Flood-prone areas hope for relief
Chicago neighborhoods that suffer sewer backups with every bigstorm should get "instant relief" - in eight to 30 months - from thecity's planned $64 million project to slow the flow of storm waterinto sewers, Ald. Michael Wojcik (30th) said Tuesday.
Aldermen and residents from flood-prone areas met with MayorDaley to tell him their woes of sewage backup, stench and healthproblems. Residents had been calling for new and larger sewers, butseemed cautiously optimistic they would get relief from the plan toinstall an inlet control system.
The system would put "vortex valves" in catch basins, slowingthe entry of water into the city's …
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