Texas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. Flash flooding has surged into the spotlight in the last week with ...

Officials in Chicago are asking residents to once again limit their water usage as heavy rain is expected to hammer the region on Tuesday. According to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District ...

Chicago-area residents are being asked to use less water to help prevent overflowing of storm water management systems ahead of heavy rains this week. According to the Metropolitan Water ...

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District issued an Overflow Action ... “In most of the Chicago area, rainwater goes through the same set of pipes as the water that goes down the drain in ...

The district, in partnership with the Friends of the Chicago River organization, launched the Overflow Action Days initiative in 2016 to alert residents when the sewer system is at risk of backing ...

Tuesday brought both a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event to Chicago and ... keeping water from soaking into the ground and sending it instead toward storm drains that can quickly overflow or ...

Tuesday brought both a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event to Chicago and ... keeping water from soaking into the ground and sending it instead toward storm drains that can quickly overflow or ...