Surveys for the future water supply of Philadelphia

✍ Scribed by Rudolph Hering

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1884
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 772 KB
• Volume: 118
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(84)90091-7

✦ Synopsis

S~,rvejs for ~uture Water Sup_ply.

225 the line before mentioned, near Lederachville, after crossing the Skippack two miles northeast of Skippackville, and passing through another ttmnel.

Topography was extended sufficiently far to examine still other alternate lines. Only one line remains to be run from a suitable point on the present line to opposite Sehwenksville, and thus complete all practicable locations for a conduit into the Perkiomen basin on the proposed grade.

A careful survey was made of tile entire country to be flooded by the proposed dams at Schwenksville, Green Lane, and Sumneytown, and the general topography of the water-shed of all the ground wes~ of the Perkiomen and of the Maeoby was taken, up to the county lines where it joins the territory covered by the State Geological