[3] This system relies on pumps, not on gravity flow, to move the clean water.
[4] The 68th Street / Dunne cribs feed water to this filtration plant.
[2] On September 19, 2016, the City of Chicago renamed the South Water Purification Plant to the Sawyer Water Purification Plant to honor the former Mayor Eugene Sawyer.
[5] The water filtration plant is located at 3300 E. Cheltenham Place on the South Side along the lake near Rainbow Beach Park.
The work is estimated at $74.5 million, and will include restoration of the roof of the 1941 building and a 1964 addition.