Topics Water Supply

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The Water and Drainage History of Philadelphia, Part 2

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Watersheds: Learning to care for and protect our local water resources

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Images from ‘The Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia by a proposed Aqueduct from Norristown Dam’

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Frankford Creek: Sad History of an Urban Stream title page

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