Topics Sewers & Drainage

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

Sewers, Pollution, and Public Health in 19th Century Philadelphia

Black-and-white image of a creek with people around it and a large building behind it

Dock Creek Sewer in 1849: A report on its condition made to City Councils

Black-and-white image showing sewer outlet, retaining walls and body of water

Glossary of Drainage Terms by C. Drew Brown

From Creek To Sewer

Aramingo Sewer, view near Hughes & Patterson and Beach Street Bridge, March 15, 1902

Aramingo Canal, Then and Now

Drainage and Sewerage Report, 1853

Down Under!

Black-and-white image of a brick sewer outlet that drains into a creek with trees and a hill behind it

Thomas Run sewer outlet at Cobbs Creek