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Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

These three views show a combined sewer overflow during wet weather in 2010.

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The Wingohocking Sewer outfall is the largest single pipe in the entire Philadelphia sewer system, fitting for a creek that had “two branches and numerous smaller tributaries that totaled 21 miles of surface streams” and which took more than half a century, from the late 1870s to 1928, to finally be encapsulated.