Neighborhoods Northwest Philadelphia

Queen Lane Reservoir pumping station

Queen Lane Pumping Station, proposed design

Down Under III: A walk in the Dobson’s Run Storm Relief Sewer, June 15, 2010

Dobson FLP

Requiem for a stream: A brief history of Dobson’s Run

Requiem for a stream: Still House Run in Manayunk

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

The Manayunk Expressway

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Manayunk and the Schuylkill Navigation

Roxborough Works (1869)

Germantown Works (1851) and Mt. Airy Works (1882)

The Chestnut Hill Works (1859-1911)

men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue