![Philadelphia harbor and rivers chart with points of interest](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1912_Delaware_Schuylkill_Port_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
![Philadelphia harbor and rivers chart with points of interest](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1912_Delaware_Schuylkill_Port_AEL-scaled.jpg?w=300)
![Pumping stations after Philadelphia's incorporation, 1854](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1_ConsolidationMap.jpg?w=300)
Main Pumping Stations for Philadelphia Drinking Water
![Black-and-white image of a brick sewer outlet that drains into a creek with trees and a hill behind it](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/thomas-run-sewer-outlet-at-cobbs-creek.jpg?w=300)
Thomas Run sewer outlet at Cobbs Creek
![Black-and-white image showing a man standing in a large concrete half-pipe](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/thomas-run-sewer-outlet-under-construction.jpg?w=300)
Thomas Run sewer outlet during construction
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2008.001.0055_edit-pdf.jpg)
Color Diagram of Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia
![Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Load-test-concrete-sewer-pipe-1914_20040920278.jpg?w=300)
Pipe Test, 1914
![Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Pier126-Sewer-AlleghenyAvenue-20040920279-1.jpg?w=300)
Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918
![1914 map showing the plan for the collection and treatment of sewage in Philadelphia.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/1914-Plan-2004.058.0065-RESCAN-rev2-reduced.jpg?w=300)
Plan for the Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Sewage, 1914
![The Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works in 1914](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_PennypackWorks1914rpt119.jpg?w=300)
Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works, 1914
![Devereaux Street Sewer on the cover of Philadelphia magazine, 1911](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_June1911.jpg?w=300)
Devereaux Street Sewer, Philadelphia magazine, 1911
![A list of rules governing the sanitary maintenance of privy vaults in Philadelphia in 1915](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_PrivyRegs.jpg?w=300)
Privy Regulations
![Black-and-white photo of privies, waterless wells used to collect human waste](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Privies_EmeraldSt_20050060006.jpg?w=300)