WMRC - Illinois River Project - Videos

Mud to Parks Video Clips

These video clips show the handling of sediment from the Illinois River's Peoria Lake where it was excavated and loaded into barges to the unloading in Chicago and placement on the site. The clips illustrate the consistency and handling quality of the sediment throughout the process. The mud will provide topsoil for the slag field at the old US Steel South Works site that will become a city park.

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Mud to Parks Overview
This clip show the whole process in 38 seconds. The other videos provide more detail.

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Mud to Parks - Loading Barge
Mud is excavated from Peoria Lake with a Cable Arm™ clamshell bucket and placed in standard 1500 ton hopper barges for the 168 mile trip to Chicago. It takes about four hours to load a barge.

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Mud to Parks - Unloading Barge
A crane removed mud from barges in Chicago and placed it in mining trucks that could be used because they remained off-road.

Mud to Parks Loading Trucks View from Above

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Mud to Parks - Loading Trucks
An elevated view of the mud dropping into the trucks shows its cohesiveness after a week in the barge.

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Mud to Parks - Dumping Sediment
The mud poured from the trucks and formed cohesive piles that did not require dikes to keep the material from flowing off site.

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Mud to Parks - Bulldozing
A bulldozer spreads poured mud on the slag field. The tracks leave ruts that aid the drying process. Material is piled up to eight feet high. These clips were shot between April and July. An endloader was used occasionally.