Topics Infrastructure

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

The Chestnut Hill Works (1859-1911)

men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue

Wheeled robotic sewer crawler in sewer pipe

Still photo from a video sewer inspection, 2000

Upper Roxborough filter beds

Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902