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Saw Mill Run Sewage

1950-10

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Saw Mill Run Sewage
  • Title
  • Saw Mill Run Sewage
  • Creator
  • Clyde Hare
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B015.F11.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B015.F11.I03
  • Description
  • Saw Mill Run Creek originates in Bethel Park and flows north for 9.6 miles where it enters the Ohio River less than a mile south of the Point in downtown Pittsburgh. Lots of tributaries feed into Saw Mill Run, including Little Saw Mill Run, which runs through the Banksville Road corridor until it intersects the main stream near the Fort Pitt Tunnel. Water samples taken from the steam in 2000 have determined that high concentrations of fecal coliform are still present in the stream, showing that water pollution still plagues Pittsburgh decades after this photograph was taken.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Saw Mill Run (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Rivers--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County.
    Sewage--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County.
    Water pollution--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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