Subjects Sewers & Drainage

Pipes, pumping stations, interceptors or intercepting sewers, outfalls, separate and combined sewers, sewage treatment plants, and any other infrastructure related to the collection and treatment of sewage from homes and businesses.

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

Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904

The Water and Drainage History of Philadelphia: A seven-part course

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

The Water and Drainage History of Philadelphia, Part 7

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

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

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

Thomas Run sewer outlet during construction

City officials tour new interceptor sewer, 1953

Devereaux Street Sewer on the cover of Philadelphia magazine, 1911

Devereaux Street Sewer, Philadelphia magazine, 1911

Photo of a work crew constructing a sewer in Rock Run, Tacony Creek, Philadelphia

Sewer construction, Rock Run, 1922