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The Philadelphia Water Department: 203 Years of Serving a Community's Needs With Engineering Solntions and Environmental Protection

机译:费城水部门:203年为工程溶液和环境保护提供社区的需求

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In June of 1975 the American Society of Civil Engineers honored the Philadelphia Water System as a "National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark...a tribute to its great early engineering years" (PWD 1975). I take particular pleasure, therefore, in being able to share the history of the Philadelphia Water Department with the Society during its Sesquicentennial Celebration. I will focus on the early years of water supply in Philadelphia, but will bring you up to the present discussing both the engineering achievements and environmental issues which have shaped the Department's development. It would be a delight for me to recount a story that reflects rational political decision-making, and successful planning by engineers. The history of the development 'of Philadelphia's water system is not one of those stories. Like the development of water systems in most other 18th and 19th century urban centers, political decisions were made only after the community was in crisis. Solutions were engineered with some success, only after much trial and error. And, needless to say, those engineered solutions created unanticipated problems of their own. But somewhere in all of this, rational political decisions were made, and successful solutions - even elegant ones -engineered.
机译:1975年6月,美国土木工程师协会荣获费城水系统作为“全国历史的土木工程标志性地标......致力于其伟大的早期工程年度”(1975年)。因此,我特别高兴能够在其级别的庆典中与社会分享费城水部门的历史。我将重点关注费城供水的早期,但会让您讨论现有的工程成果和环境问题,这些展示部门的发展。我会召回一个反映理性政治决策的故事和工程师成功规划会很高兴。费城水系统的发展历史不是这些故事中的一个。就像在大多数其他18世纪和19世纪的城市中心的水系统的发展一样,只有在社区陷入危机之后才会制作政治决定。在多次试验和错误之后,才会成功地设计解决方案。而且,毋庸置疑,那些工程化解决方案创造了自己的意外问题。但在所有这一切的某个地方,都是合理的政治决策,成功的解决方案 - 即使是优雅的解决方案。

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