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Water History: Repurposing Old Infrastructure
Frankford Pumping Station Plans and Diagrams, 1870s
Cresheim Aqueduct
Drainage area plan, early 19th century
Sassafras (Race) Street Survey, 1819
Pine Street sewer plan, 1848
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
Philadelphia Navy Yard, July 1872
Diagram from sewage treatment plan for Philadelphia, 1912
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