Rivers & Creeks Schuylkill River

Water Bureau Newspaper Scrapbook, 1942-1952

Dobson FLP

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

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

Dobson FLP

Requiem for a stream: A brief history of Dobson’s Run

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

Typhoid Fever and sewage tainted drinking water: An 1889 report from the Philadelphia Board of Health

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946

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

State of the Schuylkill River in 1876: Sewage pollution and possible remedies

1830 plan for the Pine Street Sewer

Plan of Pine Street Sewer, 1830

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water