Topics Infrastructure

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

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

Sewage collection and disposal plan

Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912