Subjects Sewer Pipes

Including sewer pipes in all their sizes, and in all their uses, for stormwater and sanitary waste, combined and separate sewers, and intercepting sewers.

PWD Celebrates Black History Month

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Sewer systems, City of Philadelphia, 1927 and 1929

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

Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today

Wooden Pipes in Philadelphia

Wheeled robotic sewer crawler in sewer pipe

Still photo from a video sewer inspection, 2000

Pen and ink drawing of the proposed Delaware Seventh Street Sewer

Plan and profile of proposed Delaware Seventh St. Sewer, 1850

1830 plan for the Pine Street Sewer

Plan of Pine Street Sewer, 1830

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

Norman Lofton inspects sewer at Ditman and Sheffield, 1987

Norman Lofton inspects sewer at Ditman and Sheffield, 1987

Sewer crawler Clarence Baskerville checks tunnel for leaks. He has faced the dangers of working in sewers for past three years, 1971

Inspector looking for problems in sewer

General view of sewer looking up manhole as other Water Dept. personnel look down.

Sewer crawler Tom Cross, heading down the manhole at 26th and Grays Ferry, 1982

Joe Cerrone, Inspector, Industrial Waste Unit, PWD, enters storm drain to search for source of oil spill, 1989

Norman Lofton enters manhole at Ditman and Sheffield, 1987

Sewer worker Anthony Holston enters sewer, 1990

Black and white photo of a worker with darker skin, wearing protective clothing, gloves, and a hard hat with the number 25 on the front, reaching up out of a sewer manhole, only head, shoulders, and left arm visible.

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Manholes like this give access to city’s sewer system, 1961

Black and white photo of a worker with darker skin, wearing protective clothing, gloves, and a hard hat with the number 25 on the front, reaching up out of a sewer manhole, only head, shoulders, and left arm visible.

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Sewer Inspections: Vintage Images

Black-and-white image of a brick sewer outlet that drains into a creek with trees and a hill behind it

Thomas Run sewer outlet at Cobbs Creek

Black-and-white image showing a man standing in a large concrete half-pipe

Thomas Run sewer outlet during construction