Project announced complete will be finished in thirty years

The Deep Tunnel Project began thirty years ago. The 109 miles of tunnels under Cook County, Illinois were built to keep sewage and storm water runoff out of the Chicago River, Lake Michigan, as well as residential basements.

Well, it's done. Sort of. I don't know who to blame, the government agency in charge of the program, or whoever wrote this story, but here is the first paragraph of the CBS 2 Chicago article about the "completion" of Deep Tunnel:

It required 30 years of work and $9 million, but at long last, the Deep Tunnel is done.

And the last...

The final phase of the Deep Tunnel project is a series of reservoirs holding 10 billion gallons of storm runoff. That will take the next 30 years.

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