Topics Sewers & Drainage

Colored ink drawing showing drainage areas and sewer inlets in Philaelphia in the early 19th century

Drainage area plan, early 19th century

Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Dobson FLP

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

Black-and-white diagram showing streets and the Little Tacony Creek

Frankford Creek Watershed: A historical overview of the Philadelphia section

Frankford Creek Watershed Historical Timeline

Down Under III: A walk in the Dobson’s Run Storm Relief Sewer, June 15, 2010

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

Down Under, Part 2: Beaver Creek as it appears today

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

Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908

Kensington Water Supply in 1883

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer