Topics Sewers & Drainage

Two views on the water supply, 1939

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1897, with color added

Mill Creek Sewer drawing, cross-section, 1869

Archival Storytelling: Water History Video 4

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

Creek to Sewer: Water History Video 1

Water Department Newsletters, 1959-1997

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

PWD Celebrates Black History Month

Dobson FLP

You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884

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

1914 map showing the plan for the collection and treatment of sewage in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia’s Sewer Problem

MEET YOUR ENEMY: THE RAT

Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks of Frederic Graff Jr.,Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department: Part 1, 1854-1857