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Like those in many old cities, Pittsburgh's sewer and storm water pipes are antiquated. Some lines are 50 to 100 years old and made of brick. [6] And the sewer and storm drain systems grew in a haphazard fashion during Pittsburgh's rapid population growth around the year 1900. That has led to pollution problems.
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Pennsylvania (1974) Shaw, Lewis C. (June 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16). Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (1st ed.).
The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation passed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826 [a] to establish a means of transporting freight [b] between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It funded the construction of various long-proposed canal and road projects, mostly in southern Pennsylvania, that became a canal system and later ...
Six main interceptor sewers, totaling almost 100 miles (160 km) in length, were constructed, some incorporating stretches of London's 'lost' rivers. Three of these sewers were north of the river, the southernmost, low-level one being incorporated in the Thames Embankment .
Boats had to cross from one side of the Susquehanna River to the other between either the Susquehanna Division or the Juniata Division on the west side and the Eastern Division on the east side. They solved the problem by building a dam 1,998 feet (609 m) long and 8.5 feet (2.6 m) high between the lower end of Duncan's Island and the east bank ...
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U.S. Route 6 (US 6) travels east–west near the north edge of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from the Ohio state line near Pymatuning Reservoir east to the Mid-Delaware Bridge over the Delaware River into Port Jervis, New York. It is the longest highway segment in the commonwealth.
The 1837 revision of the Main Line of Public Works authorized the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company to build the 25.2 miles (40.6 km) upper canal division from White Haven to the Lehigh Gorge and the docks and railroads at Mauch Chunk, and build railroads from the Pennsylvania Canal docks on the Susquehanna River at Pittston to Mountain Top ...