Sewer History: Photos and Graphics


For Reference	See Les Egouts de Paris for a collection of photos and articles about the Paris sewers.
	Entrance to tour. Tours of the Paris sewers have been popular since the 1800s, when the newly-designed sewers were the pride of Paris. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Bust of Eugene Belgrand. Baron Georges Haussmann and his chief engineer Eugene Belgrand started a dramatic transformation of the Paris sewers, initiated in the early 1850s as part of the comprehensive reconstruction of the city’s infrastructure during the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Displays at Sewer Museum, Paris, France. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Display at Sewer Museum, Paris, France. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Tourists in the Sewer Museum. Note presence of pipes (within sewer) for other utilities. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Tourists in Sewer Museum. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Sewer channels with walkways alongside the cunnette (low flow channel). Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Place de la Resistance. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Tunnel with non-potable water pipes, an example of how they maximized the use of the sewer structure to house other utilities, avoiding having to trench down the streets each time a utility line had to be installed. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.
	Tunnel with other utility pipes. Source: Ed Curley, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona.