Topics Sewers & Drainage

Several people stand atop the Aramingo Sewer during construction, June 7, 1900

Creek to Sewer: Water History Video 1

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part 1, with Adam Levine

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water