Jardine Water Purification Plant

The Jardine Water Purification Plant, formerly the Central District Filtration Plant, is a

water filtration plant located at 1000 East Ohio Street, north of Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. It draws raw water from two of the city's water cribs far offshore in Lake Michigan

and supplies two thirds of City of Chicago consumers in the northern, downtown, and western parts of the city and to many northern and western surrounding suburbs.

The plant was constructed in the 1960s and began functioning in 1968.

Milton Olive Park was designed by Dan Kiley, and a statue, Hymn to Water, by Milton Horn

graces the front entrance.

The southern portion of the city and many southern suburbs are served by a separate plant, the Sawyer Water Purification Plant.^[2] Together the two plants supply water to about 3 million households in the city and 118 suburbs.^[3]

Filtration methods used by the Jardine Water Plant is extraction and adding chemical additives; with the use of sand and gravel to filter the water, while the chemical additives being fluoride to fight off tooth decay, phosphates to avoid corrosion from the pipes, and chlorine for disinfection.^[4]41°53′41″N 87°36′22″W / 41.8947°N 87.6062°W / 41.8947; -87.6062

Notes

^ "Water Purification". Eastland Memorial Society. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
^ "South Side Water Filtration Plant Named After Late Mayor Eugene Sawyer". 19 September 2016.
^ "World's Largest Water Treatment Plant Optimizes Procedures Based on ALGOR Fluid Flow Results". ALGOR, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
^ "How Chicago Purifies One Million Gallons of Water Every Minute". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2021-11-17.

[Inficad-1] "Water Purification". Eastland Memorial Society. Retrieved 2007-09-30.

[2] "South Side Water Filtration Plant Named After Late Mayor Eugene Sawyer". 19 September 2016.

[ALGOR-3] "World's Largest Water Treatment Plant Optimizes Procedures Based on ALGOR Fluid Flow Results". ALGOR, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-13.

[4] "How Chicago Purifies One Million Gallons of Water Every Minute". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2021-11-17.

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