After figuring out how wastewater treatment facilities get out a good majority of dissolved solids (Federal Law states 85% of dissolved solids must be removed), we turned to our Driving Question Board to see what questions we could answer. We've figured out A LOT about dirty water!
But we're still left with more questions that have surfaced! So we added new questions to the DQB, and two stuck out to the classes, which seem to focus on the next part of what we've figured out so far: Where does water go after the WWTF? Is it always a river? What about here in Chicago?
So we turned to using Google Maps again, looking for nearby bodies of water closest to two wastewater treatment facilities we've identified in Chicago: O'Brien and Stickey. Here's some screenshots of the areas around and connected to bodies of water that we saw near the two wwtf. We'll be trying to come to consensus tomorrow about where we think Chicago's treated water goes!