Topics Streams & Rivers

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

Black-and-white image shows a trolley car emerging from a building with men standing alongside

Filling Low Land: A Story of Ash-Dumping in the Wingohocking Creek Watershed

Delaware River Harbor Police Report, 1884

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

Schuylkill River Harbor Police Report, 1884

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

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

The Schuylkill and Wissahickon banks in 1858

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

Glossary of Drainage Terms by C. Drew Brown

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