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Chicago asks residents to use less water now

CHICAGO — Rainfall from Hurricane Beryl has prompted an urgent water usage alert in Chicago.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago issued an Overflow Action Day Alert for Tuesday, July 9. MWRD asks that until the current Overflow Action Alert is lifted:

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No showers
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No baths
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No clothes-washers
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No dishwashers
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Less frequent toilet flushing

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MWRD, which treats wastewater and manages stormwater across Chicagoland, says this helps reduce basement backups and flooding by conserving water before, during, and after rainstorms.

Areas in southeastern Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana fall under this level and could see the heaviest rainfall totals of up to three to five inches on Tuesday and Wednesday. As a result, Cook, DuPage, Will, Kankakee, Grundy and Iroquois counties in Illinois and all of Northwest Indiana will be under a Flood Watch from 4 p.m. Tuesday to 1 p.m. Wednesday.

A Flash Flood Warning is in effect until 6:45 p.m. for southern Cook and Lake County in Northwest Indiana. WGN Weather producer Bill Snyder says up to three inches of of rain has been reported over a span of 30 minutes near Dolton as an area of convergence between Beryl remnants and a lake breeze has set up some torrential downpours.

Multiple reports of street flooding impacting the area include the Pullman and Hegewisch neighborhoods and suburban Blue Island and Calumet Park.

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Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Beryl raged through the Caribbean to Texas, unleashing heavy downpours, downed power lines and trees, and severe flooding.

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