Chicago's Tunnel and Reservoir Plan--Costs Continue To Rise and Completion of Phase I Is Unlikely
CED-81-51
Published: Jan 21, 1981. Publicly Released: Jan 30, 1981.
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GAO was asked to provide updated cost information on Chicago's Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP). Previous reports by GAO pointed out the staggering cost of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago's solution to these problems and questioned whether the country could afford such an expensive and precedent-setting endeavor.
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Construction costsCost analysisEnvironmental engineeringFlood control managementProgram evaluationSanitary engineeringWastewater managementTroubled Asset Relief ProgramInflationArmy corps of engineers