Sewer History: Photos and Graphics


	Construction of "Kerrigan" Combined Sewer in Nashville, Tennessee. Built circa 1900, it started at 30 inches and ended at the regulator with a diameter of 18 feet. Source: Vernon (Wes) Frye, PE; Special Projects Manager, Metro Water Services, Nashville, Tennessee.
	Early sewer installation practices. Source: unknown.
	Deepening Arizona Canal on north side of Granite Reef Camp. Photo by Walter J. Lubken, March 1907. Source: Courtesy of SRP Research Archives.
	Table Showing Data (for the Fiscal Year 1907) Relative to Sewerage and Sewage Disposal in Certain American Cities and Towns. Part I. Source: "Sewerage Statistics: Collected and Tabulated by the Sanitary Section of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers," Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Volume 42, No. 3 (March 1909), insert between pp. 146-147.
	Table Showing Data (for the Fiscal Year 1907) Relative to Sewerage and Sewage Disposal in Certain American Cities and Towns. Part II. Source: "Sewerage Statistics: Collected and Tabulated by the Sanitary Section of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers," Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Volume 42, No. 3 (March 1909), insert between pp. 146-147.
	Table Showing Data (for the Fiscal Year 1907) Relative to Sewerage and Sewage Disposal in Certain American Cities and Towns. Part III. Source: "Sewerage Statistics: Collected and Tabulated by the Sanitary Section of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers," Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Volume 42, No. 3 (March 1909), insert between pp. 146-147.
	Table of Data Relating to the Maintenance of Sewerage Systems. Source: "Sewerage Statistics: Collected and Tabulated by the Sanitary Section of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers," Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Volume 42, No. 3 (March 1909), insert between pp. 146-147.
	Gravity outfall sewer from Salt Lake City to sewer farms. Pipe made of wood stave pipe assembled in the trench. 1908. Source: Utah State Historical Society, Photo no. C-601 #1651. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.
	Wood stave gravity sewer pipe, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1908. Assembled in the trench. Source: Utah State Historical Society, Photo no. C-601 #1652. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.
	Gravity outfall sewer, concrete invert up to spring line, multiple-layer brick arch forms the crown. Wood false work holds up brick arch during construction. Utah, 1908. Source: Utah State Historical Society, Photo no. C-601 #1678. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.
	Steam-powered Buckeye Traction Ditcher, 1909. Source: Utah State Historical Society, Photo no. C-601 #1694/5. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.
	Workers in the Garrison Creek storm sewer tunneling operation, Toronto, 1912. Source: Unknown.