Flashback Friday … the 13th!: We get creepy with a loathed sewer creature
December 13, 2019 | Adam Levine, PWD Historian
Sewer crawlers face many challenges in their work, including rodent nests.
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Be Thankful You Don’t Live in Pre-Flush Philly: World Toilet Day and our messy journey to sanitation
November 22, 2019 | Public Affairs
Historian Adam Levine helps us flush out some interesting insights about the relationship between toilets and our evolution toward a metropolis that once topped 2 million poop-making people.
Read More →Customer Service Week Spotlight: Inlet Cleaning Crews: You Call, They Unclog - But That’s Not All.
October 9, 2019 | Public Affairs
You may see these crews providing customer service on your block. Get details on three specialized tasks they perform and tips on getting help with a clogged drain that’s causing flooding.
Read More →New ‘Sewer U’ Serves Infrastructure Workers: Gold LEED-Certified Site Trains Increasingly Gender-Diverse City Workforce for Critical Infrastructure Jobs
May 16, 2019 | Public Affairs
A sort of campus that serves as a state-of-the-art training and operations hub for the City’s sewer infrastructure workforce, the project cost approximately $17 million to build.
Read More →Infrastructure Week 2018: Highlighting Your Investment in Clean Water
May 15, 2018 | Public Affairs
The sixth-annual Infrastructure Week, a national effort to highlight the importance of maintaining and improving the pipes, treatment plants, roads, bridges, runways, communications systems, and other shared resources that make modern society possible kicked off on Monday, May 14 and runs through May 21
Read More →Can You Decode Street Paint?
May 18, 2017 | Brian Rademaekers
Beneath your feet, there’s an invisible universe of infrastructure. This world is hidden from view, but painted lines on the surface reveal exactly what’s there—if you know what to look for…
Read More →Infrastructure Week 2017: Our Time to Build
May 15, 2017 | Brian Rademaekers
May 15-19 is Infrastructure Week 2017, and the Philadelphia Water Department is joining fellow utilities, cities, organizations and businesses around the country to highlight the importance of investing in infrastructure. Infrastructure is what makes our communities work. It’s the investments we make together to make life better…
Read More →Through Rain, Sleet, Snow and Papal Madness, We’ll Be Here
September 22, 2015 | Brian Rademaekers
With Pope Francis just days away from his historic visit to the City of Brotherly Love, you can almost feel the excitement in the air. Like other city agencies and utilities, we’ve been engaged in months of planning to make sure the visit goes smoothly.
Read More →From the Archives: Mill Creek Sewer under construction 1883
October 18, 2013 | Public Affairs
This has become an iconic photograph, used in books, articles and other publications to illustrate both 19th-century sewer building and, more specifically, the process of building a combined sewer in a stream bed.
Read More →From the Archives: Work gang in the Torresdale Conduit, December 18th, 1906
September 18, 2013 | Public Affairs
This group of workmen filling a crack in the Torresdale Conduit. They are using slurry of concrete, sometimes called grout, which is being pumped into a crack from the metal basin in the foreground through the nozzle held by the man in the background.
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