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May 6, 2008
Interesting times, these. Turn on the radio, and they’re talking about primary elections and gas tax holidays, about rising food prices and foreclosures, and about pilots who take little naps while they’re driving airplanes up there in the sky. It’s all enough to make a body worry.
Well, when the worries get to you, what better relief than to take refuge in history? And I’ve got just the place – it’s www.sewerhistory.org.
No kidding. Sewerhistory.org is an entire website devoted to, well, to the history of sewers.
Sponsored by the Arizona Water & Pollution Control Association, the Pima County Wastewater Management Department, and the Collection Systems Committee of the Water Environment Federation, the site provides an unexpectedly fun look at something that most folks have truly never thought about. It’s “a journey through the history of sanitary sewers from prehistory to the present,” according to one promo piece, and if you’d like to know how our sewer infrastructure got to where it is today, this is the place to begin.
The intent of the site is “to offer some insight into the history of sewers and the role its operators, engineers, and builders may have played in making our current environment, homes and communities better and healthier places to live.” I’ve seen a lot of history oriented websites over the years, and let me tell you that this one does a good job.
When you visit the site you’ll find infromation, old photos, timelines and more.
You can even buy sewer history posters with which to decorate your walls or surprise your friends. Poster titles include “Sewer Maintenance Tools of 1899” and “The Cultural Side of Sewers,” not to mention “Manhole Covers Through the Ages.”
And you thought sewers were just a bunch of pipes in the ground.
So the next time the regular news gets you down, take a break and check out the background of this fascinating element of our infrastructure. Who knows? You may be building, this very day, a sewer system that’ll someday be featured on this most unusual history-focused site.
Posted by Steve Hudson on May 6, 2008 | Comments (0)
