What is North Shore Channel?
[[File:North Shore Channel - Wilmette, IL.JPG|thumb|The North Shore Channel near the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.]] [[File:North-Branch-of-the-Chicago-River-01.JPG|thumb|At the south end of the North Shore Channel, the North Branch of the Chicago River flows over a small dam into the confluence. View looking northwest, near River Park in Chicago.]] The '''North Shore Channel''' is a [[canal]] built between 1907 and 1910 to flush the sewage-filled North Branch of the [[Chicago River]] down the [[Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal]].<ref name=Hill>{{cite book|last=Hill|first=Libby|title=The Chicago River, A Natural and Unnatural History|url=https://archive.org/details/chicagorivernatu0000hill|year=2000|publisher=Lake Claremont Press|location=Chicago|isbn=1-893121-02-X|pages=[https://archive.org/details/chicagorivernatu0000hill/page/139 139]–151}}</ref> The sewage carrying duty has been largely taken over by the [[Chicago Deep Tunnel]], but there are still occasional discharges due to heavy rains.<ref name=Willmette>{{cite web|title=CSO - Operational and Maintenance Plan Summary|url=http://www.wilmette.com/departments/public_works/combinedsewerover.aspx|publisher=Village of Willmette|access-date=23 June 2014|archive-date=16 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416122634/http://www.wilmette.com/departments/public_works/combinedsewerover.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Canals]] [[Category:Geography of Chicago]] {{US-geo-stub}}