{"id":1092,"date":"2017-06-30T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:45:35","slug":"innovation-of-traditional-technology-sparks-mwrd-to-channel-cleaner-chicago-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/innovation-of-traditional-technology-sparks-mwrd-to-channel-cleaner-chicago-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation of traditional technology sparks MWRD to channel cleaner Chicago waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New disinfection technology from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) will push\u00a0the Chicago region one step closer to direct contact of local waterways in time for boating recreation season. The MWRD\u00a0Board of Commissioners, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen, other elected officials, local leaders\u00a0and representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gathered Wednesday to mark this new era of\u00a0cleaner waterways with a ribbon cutting at the O\u2019Brien Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) in Skokie.<\/p>\n<p>The MWRD\u2019s O\u2019Brien WRP introduced ultraviolet (UV) radiation to disinfect water as a final layer to its treatment<br \/>\nprocess to reduce pathogenic bacteria in the water being released from the plant into the North Shore Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New disinfection technology from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) will push\u00a0the Chicago region one step closer to direct contact of local waterways in time for boating recreation season. The MWRD\u00a0Board of Commissioners, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen, other elected officials, local leaders\u00a0and representatives of the U.S. Environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commissionerkaristeele.com\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}