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The National Weather Service is forecasting rain through the early morning hours and into the\u00a0afternoon. As little as 0.3 inches of rainwater can trigger a combined sewage overflow (CSO) into\u00a0the Chicago River when the system gets overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
Here’s a tip:<\/p>\n
Quicker Showers
\nA 10 minute shower can use as much as 40 gallons of water. Try a five minute shower instead.<\/p>\n
Get more information<\/a>\u00a0on Friends of the Chicago River\u00a0#OverflowAction Day effort The National Weather Service is forecasting rain through the early morning hours and into the\u00a0afternoon. As little as 0.3 inches of rainwater can trigger a combined sewage overflow (CSO) into\u00a0the Chicago River when the system gets overwhelmed. Here’s a tip: Quicker Showers A 10 minute shower can use as much as 40 gallons of water. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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