Topics Sewers & Drainage

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

Mill Creek Sewer drawing, cross-section, 1869

Archival Storytelling: Water History Video 4

Plans and maps of the Pennypack Creek Watershed in Philadelphia

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

Color image of a grassy field with trees and buildings surrounding it and white lines drawn on the grass mimicking the path of a creek.

Drawing Dock Creek

Requiem for a stream: Still House Run in Manayunk

Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868

State of the Schuylkill River in 1876: Sewage pollution and possible remedies