Adam Levine
Historian with the Philadelphia Water Department who provides historical context on Dock Creek, Fairmount Waterworks, and early urban sanitation in Philadelphia.
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Jan 7, 2020 • 48min
How Philadelphia's Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City
Adam Levine, historian at the Philadelphia Water Department, Alexis Schulman, stormwater history researcher, and Rigoberto Hernandez, reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, trace three centuries of the city’s water story. They cover Dock Creek’s burial, Fairmount Waterworks and early sanitation, the rise of combined sewers, filtration and chlorination, and the modern debate between gray tunnels and green infrastructure.
