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Historic resources from our archives - images, maps, documents, and more.

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

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

Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914

Pipe Test, 1914

Diagram of the Philadelphia Water Department's wastewater treatment process

Wastewater Treatment Process diagram

Photo of a woman looking at a jar of raw, untreated sewage

Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000

Centerfold of 1955 brochure depicting the Southeast Sewage Treatment Works

Southeast Sewage Treatment Works diagram, 1955

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Photo of Allegheny Avenue Sewer, Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918

Allegheny Avenue Sewer at Pier 126, 1918

1914 map showing the plan for the collection and treatment of sewage in Philadelphia.

Plan for the Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Sewage, 1914

Two bottles of water from a river, one dark with pollution and one clear after filtration

Water Before and After Roxborough