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Water History: Repurposing Old Infrastructure
Frankford Pumping Station Plans and Diagrams, 1870s
Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872
Lower Dublin township in 1848
Fire Underwriters’ Map, 1949
Navy Yard on the Delaware River (Picturesque America)
Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897
Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869
Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram
Fairmount Dam Fishway sign
PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass
Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005
PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, with canal lock and esplanade, 1873
Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956
Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868
Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.
Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, 1895
Diagram from sewage treatment plan for Philadelphia, 1912
Queen Lane Pumping Station, proposed design
Listening for leaks
Centre Square Water Works, Frederick Graff, Sr. Plans, 1799
Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue
Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
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