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See Les Egouts de Paris for a collection of photos and articles about the Paris sewers. |
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Cutaway of Paris sewer, 1820.
Source: Bruno de Ville d'Avray, Mairie de Paris / Direction de la protection
de l'environnement, Section de l'assainissement de Paris; and Lucien
Finel, previous Deputy to the Mayor of Paris (in charge of water and
sanitation management).
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Paris above and below ground, illustration from an 1854
article about life in Paris.
Source: "Life
in Paris - Sketches Above and Below Ground," Harper's New Monthly
Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 45 (Feb. 1854), p. 306. Courtesy of The Making
of America Digital Collection, Cornell University Library.
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Sewer profile and details, Hamburg, London, Paris, circa
1858.
Source: E. S. Chesbrough, Chief Engineer of the Board of Sewerage Commissioners,
"1858 Chicago Sewerage Report," (Chicago, Illinois: Board
of Sewerage Commissioners, 1858).
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Part of apparatus of J. B. Berlier's
pneumatic system of drainage, circa 1884. This system was tried in Paris
in the 1880s to separate sludge and draw it by pneumatic pressure to
a collection station. See pp. 26-30 of source article for detailed information.
Samuel M. Gray, Proposed
Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the
City of Providence (Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers
to the City, 1884), Plate 9, opposite page 28. |
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Sketch showing the arrangement of Berlier's
system in public and private buildings, circa 1884 in Paris.
Samuel M. Gray, Proposed
Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the
City of Providence (Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers
to the City, 1884), Plate 10, opposite page 28. |
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Sections of Paris sewers, circa 1884.
Samuel M. Gray, Proposed
Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the
City of Providence (Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers
to the City, 1884), Plate 14, opposite page 52. |
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Sections of Paris sewers, circa 1884.
Samuel M. Gray, Proposed
Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the
City of Providence (Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers
to the City, 1884), Plate 15, opposite page 52. |
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Flushing boat and truck used in Paris
sewers, circa 1884.
Samuel M. Gray, Proposed
Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the
City of Providence (Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers
to the City, 1884), Plate 16, opposite page 53. |
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Details showing designs of Paris sewers, circa 1910. Figure 8 shows
an egg-shaped branch sewer design with a flat path for sewermen. Figure
9 shows the main sewer in the Rue de Rivoli, with two paths for walking.
Figure 10 shows the Clichy outfall sewer.
J. T. Brown, W. H. Maxwell, editors, "Sewerage," The
Encyclopaedia of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering (New
York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1910), p. 429, 430. |
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Old sewer and the Metropolitan railway line. Rue Saint-Antoine
trunk sewer, 1914.
Source: Postcard from Les Egouts de Paris.
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Sewer workers with sewer cleaning equipment in Paris, France,
circa 1930.
Source: Bruno de Ville d'Avray, Mairie de Paris / Direction de la protection
de l'environnement, Section de l'assainissement de Paris; and Lucien
Finel, previous Deputy to the Mayor of Paris (in charge of water and
sanitation management).
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