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Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998
30th Street Sewer
‘Gillette, All By Himself, Gets Fine New Idea On Germ Slaying’
State Street pipeline construction, 1904
Belmont Filters construction, 1903
Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902
Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown
Standard Philadelphia (B) Hydrant
Diagram showing heights of reservoirs, dams, standpipes &c, 1894
Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912
Typical house drainage
Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943
Wastewater Treatment Process diagram
Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000
Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951
Bingham Street Sewer, East of Tacony Creek, 1921
Water Before and After Roxborough
Upper Roxborough Filter Bed Construction, 1902