Dealing with the city’s wastes in the mid-19th century
Down Under!
Two reports on the state of the Schuylkill River, 1867
Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’
Plan and profile of proposed Delaware Seventh St. Sewer, 1850
Plan of Pine Street Sewer, 1830
PWD Drinking Water Treatment diagram
Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883
Sewer Demand Taken to City Hall, 7/25/32
Bridge Street Draw, Cofferdam, ca. 1896