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Spring Garden water testing lab, 1901

Bureau of Water Spring Garden Testing Station, 1901

Immigrant family, ca. 1900

Immigrant family, ca. 1900, nurse in black

Duplex Pumping Engine, Belmont Works

Duplex Pumping Engine, Belmont Works

Belmont Works Engine House

Engine House of the Belmont Works

DeLaval Beauty Shots 6

Electric Pump Installations at Lardner’s Point Pumping Station

Philadelphia Standard Distribution Valve (20040570221083)

Philadelphia Standard Distribution Valve

Engine House of the Belmont Works, R. Newell photo (2004.057.0074.001)

Engine House, Belmont Works

Hands holding a silver river herring fish

River herring from the Schuylkill

PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River

PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

Black and white image of Philadelphia civic and business leaders watching the start of operations at the new Northeast Sewage Treatment Plant, April 6, 1951

Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953