![Thomas Meehan](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5d_FINAL_Thomas-Meehan_edit.jpg?w=300)
![Thomas Meehan](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/C.5d_FINAL_Thomas-Meehan_edit.jpg?w=300)
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Dauphin-Sydenham-1978-01-17-05.jpg?w=300)
Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978
![William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/MixedDrink_Inq_1899-04-06_Morgan_crop2.jpg?w=300)
“A Decidedly Mixed Drink,” April 6, 1899
![Yellow Fever, Philadelphia, 1793](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/yellowfeverphila.jpg?w=300)
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
![Black-and-white photo of a trolley car atop debris with several workmen around and atop it](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Wingohocking-Ash-Cars-Cox-p77b.jpg?w=300)
Car 5615, later P-16 and the second D-31, Brill, 1911, Curtis C-1112 trucks
![Gillette Schuylkill mud cartoon](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/D.6c_FINAL_2004.012.0027R_Typhoid_1906_edit-scaled.jpg?w=300)
‘Gillette, All By Himself, Gets Fine New Idea On Germ Slaying’
![Pegg's Run](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/PeggsRun_WAnnals_p436v1_AEL.jpg?w=300)
Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)
![Photo of a woman looking at a jar of raw, untreated sewage](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_SewageJar.jpg?w=300)
Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000
![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](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_NESTWOpeningBrochurep5.jpg?w=300)
Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951
![Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Pier126-Sewer-AlleghenyAvenue-Swimmers-20040920280-1.jpg?w=300)
Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918
![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
![Devereaux Street Sewer on the cover of Philadelphia magazine, 1911](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_June1911.jpg?w=300)