Subjects Water Supply

Pipes, distribution mains, transmission mains, filtration plants, pumping stations, and all other appurtenances, either above or underground, that relate to providing drinking water to homes and businesses. In tandem with sewer systems, properly-designed water supply systems are what make densely-populated urban areas possible.

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

Centre Square Water System

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Roxborough Works (1869)

Germantown Works (1851) and Mt. Airy Works (1882)

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)

Fairmount Water Powered Works Expansion (1859 to 1861)

Fairmount Water Turbine Wheels (1851)

Fairmount Water Powered Water Works (1822)

Twenty-fourth Ward (or West Philadelphia) Works, 1855

The Centre Square Works, 1801

State of the Schuylkill River in 1876: Sewage pollution and possible remedies