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The Thornton Reservoir is known far and wide for providing many locals, and some passersby, with a lingering smell of sewage. “I can smell it going down I-80,” said Thornton Village Administrator Doug Beckman of the Deep Tunnel reservoir, which has been online since late 2015. But Beckman said the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is now taking a proactive approach to .