Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan
Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’
Fairmount Water Works, W.H. Bartlett, 1839
Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833
Relative to Philadelphia's water and sewer systems, this includes pipes, pumps, plants, water works, reservoirs and other water storage facilities, and other aboveground and underground structures related to the city’s water supply, sewerage system, and drainage. In a larger sense, infrastructure includes many other human-made structures, including roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, canals, and other things of that nature.