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.

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

Black-and-white image of a body of water with trees and shoreline in the far distance

Delaware River at Arch Street from the New Jersey side, 1914

Black-and-white image showing sewer outlet, retaining walls and body of water

Cohocksink Sewer System outlet at Laurel Street

Black-and-white image of a table with numbers in columns

Bacteria in Delaware River, Torresdale Filters, 1913

The Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works in 1914

Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works, 1914