Topics Water Supply

Ornate black-and-white title page to the 1836 sheet music for The Fairmount Quadrilles

The Fairmount Quadrilles, 1836

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount

Stand Pipe of Philadelphia Water Works

Water Works Standpipe, 1853

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River

PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

Six people and dozens of sandbags performing a load test on a concrete pipe, 1914

Pipe Test, 1914

Diagram of the Philadelphia Water Department's wastewater treatment process

Wastewater Treatment Process diagram

Photo of a woman looking at a jar of raw, untreated sewage

Jar of raw sewage before treatment, 2000

Centerfold of 1955 brochure depicting the Southeast Sewage Treatment Works

Southeast Sewage Treatment Works diagram, 1955

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River July 15, 1918

Swimmers at Pier 126, Delaware River, July 15, 1918