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- Back in City's Pay Day After Ousting, Councilmanic Friends Worked Fast for Kerr, Chief Engineer at Torresdale, Blamed for Water Crisis, Source: Ledger, April 15
- Bacteria -- Classification
- Bacteria / Microorganisms
- Bacteriology
- Bacteriology -- Classification
- Bacteriology Classification / Schizomycetes
- Bacteriology / Enzymes / Fermentation
- Bacteriology / Pathogenic microorganisms
- Bacteriophages
- Bad-Tasting Water Called Healthy, Bureau Officials Admit Justness of Complaints, but Assure the Timid, Free From Disease Germs, Drought Accentuates Volume of Sewage and Decayed Vegetable Matter in Schuylkill, Source: Ledger, no date given
- Bad Water, Bitter Thoughts, Source: Record, no date given
- Bad Water Near Filter Beds, Source: Ledger, November 21, 1922
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- Bathing Beach Closing and Pollution Denied, Source: Inquirer, August 25
- Bathing Beaches on the Schuylkill Were Blocked by River's Pollution, Lack of Sewage-Disposal System Blamed for "Terrible Condition" of the Stream-State Trying to Purify Upper Reaches of the River, Source: Ledger, October 18
- Battle O'Annex Breaks Out Anew, "You Must Move," Says Mr. Murdoch; "We Can't," Replies Mr. Neeld, And So The Fight is Raging, Source: Ledger, June 1
- Baxter, Samuel S.
- Begin Water Fight at Council Session, Roper Will Demand Publicity and Other Councilmen Will Attack Perkiomen Project, Appropriation Bill Up, Source: Bulletin, May 29
- Belfield, Germantown, PA
- Belief Increases Murdoch Must Go, Mayor Promises Thorough Study and Prompt Action on Water Expert's Report, Urge Lukens as Successor, Source: Ledger, March 9, 1926
- Belmont 129, 175-177
- Belmont 9, 10
- Belmont, pg53, 63, 92
- Belmont Water Works
- Benefits of Green Stormwater Infrastructure
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway
- Berwyn Water Company
- Best Engineer Will Get Big City Job, City's $4000 Employs to Compete for Headship of Survey Bureau, Source: Ledger, November 29
- Bethlehem PA Water Works
- Better City Water, $5,000,000 Sewers Expected to Better Conditions Here, Source: Daily News, February 25
- Better Guarantees for Highway Repair, Source: Inquirer, March 20
- Bidders to Testify in Contract Probe, Council Committee Orders Witnesses Subpenaed for Continued Water Bureau Hearing, Roper Offers Witnesses, Source: Ledger, March 15
- Bid For Water Apparatus, $94,197 is Low Offer For Electrical Receiving Equipment, Source not known, March 3
- Bids Being Scheduled For Pumping System, New 300,000,000 Gallon Plant to Be Erected at Cost of $700,000, Source: Daily News, April 1
- Bids Opened for 3 Huge Water Mains, City to Supply Section East of the Schuylkill From Torresdale Plant, Source: Ledger, November 8
- Big Broad St. Water Mains to Be Moved, 48 and 30 Inch Pipes Lie in Path of Proposed Subway, Officials Confer, Source: North American, February 2
- Bigger Water Flow Promised Oak Lane, City Officials Say Present Condition Menaces health and Is a Fire Hazard, Springfield Co. Explains, Source: Ledger, June 8
- Big Main Break Floods Houses, Ties Up Traffic, Hundreds Marooned in Homes as Water Fills Streets Near Fairmount Reservoir, Railroad Service Badly Crippled by Inundation, Thirty-Foot Geyser From 48-Inch Pipe Digs Great Hole in Street, Streams Block River Drive, Cascades Carry Tons of Earth Down Park Slopes Onto Railroad Tracks, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1925
- Big Section Lacks Water, Chestnut Hill and Roxborough Cut Off by Pumping Station Mishap, Source: Ledger, January 18
- Big Sum For Needed Work, Other Projects Need Money, Source: Record, April 4
- Big Waste of Water and Gas Seen in City by Still Operation, Dry Chief Asks U.G.I. and Water Bureau to Aid Enforcement, Source: North American, November 8
- Big Waste of Water Laid to Yard Spigots, Millions of Gallons Declared Lost Thru Outdoor Hydrants, Leakage Great, Source: North American, April 30
- Big Water Main to Be Laid, Source: Ledger, November 25
- Big Water Supply Link, Main Across Girard Avenue Bridge Will Protect West Philadelphia, Source: Inquirer, January 29
- Biles Fills 20 Jobs in Public Works Dept., Appoints Electrician to Water Bureau at Salary of $2400, Source not known
- Biles Gives Contracts For New Water Mains, Awards Coverning Many Miles of Construction to Cost $352,000 Announced, Source: Inquirer, March 27
- Biles Seeks Bids on Fairmount Dam, Works Director Advertises Before Council Passes Enabling Ordinance, Action to Speed Water Plans Comes After Talk With Mayor, Source: Inquirer, January 24
- Biles Wants $3,000,000, Will Present Improvement Plans to Council Tomorrow, Source: Inquirer, April 2
- Billions of Gallons of Water in The Daily Flow of the Delaware, Source: Bulletin, January 28
- Bill Proposes to Change Delaware River Compact, Would Safeguard Distribution of the River's Waters, Source: Record, January 27
- Biography
- Blame Coal Strike for Water Famine, State Investigators Say 'Lack of Proper Maintenances' Was Contributing Factor, Make Report to Pinchot, Source: Bulletin, March 8
- Blame Water Famine on Incompetence of Kendrick Appointees, Experts Say Murdock Is Not Equipped for Post, System is Neglected, Money Spent on Gaudy Stuff, While Upkeep of Water Works is Ignored, District Gets Relief, After 48 Hours of Dryness Germantown Spigots Run Once More, Source: Record, March 12, 2004
- Blame Water Row as Home is Burned, Eleven Companies Stand By Helplessly as Mt. Ephraim Bungalow is Destroyed, Family of Three Menaced, Source: Ledger, February 24
- Board to Protect Water-Plan Critic, Trade Body Refuses to Name Engineer Who Wrote Letter Attacking Administration, Answers Mayor's Rebuke, Source: Ledger, November 6
- Boat Heist Planned to Save City Water, Elevator for Canoes May Be Installed at the Fairmount Dam, Locks Drain Pool, Source: North American, July 5, 1922
- Boilers
- Book Reviews
- Bosses Already Plan to Expend Millions, Propose to Start Kendrick Administration With Lavish Spending of Cash, Big Loan Will Be Pushed, Amount Needed to Finance Schemes Will Greatly Exceed the Original Estimates, Source: Record, September 20
- Break Cuts Water Supply, Eight-Foot Geyser Results as Wynnefield Main Gives Way, Source: Bulletin, April 30
- Break Cuts Water Supply, Small Chestnut Hill Area Affected by Leak in Main, Source: Bulletin, February 22
- Break in Huge Main Cuts Water Supply From Half of City, Entire Northeast and Southwest Sections Affected by Accident, Factories Flooded, Restaurants Dry, Post Office Dark; Repairs Are Rushed, Source: Inquirer, January 11
- Break in Main Causes Street Cave-in, Source: Inquirer, March 11
- Break in Main Cuts Off Roxborough Water Supply, Big Section of City Goes Without Fluid for Several Hours, Source: Record, December 20
- Break in Water Main at Broad and Arch, Streets Were Badly Flooded Before Break Was Located, Source: Record, September 4, 1922
- Break in Water Main Causes Alarm Downtown, Flood Quickly Shut Off Before Cellars Are Inundated, Source: Ledger, January 20
- Break in Water Main Floods Cellars of Clubs, Source: Record, November 18
- Break in Water Main Floods Market Street, Subway and Pavement Damaged by Early Morning Leak, Source: Inquirer, July 9
- Break in Water Main Floods Tulip St. Homes, Pavement Torn Up by Geysers Near Susquehanna Avenue, Source: Ledger, May 8
- Break in Water Main Floods Uptown Homes, Block in Frankford Closed to Traffic as Stream Spouts Into Air, Source: Inquirer, July 10
- Break in Water Main Sounds Like Explosion, Floods Highway at Fifty-fifth Street and Cedar Avenue, Source: Record, May 28
- Break Shuts Off Hospitals' Water, Section of West Phila. Left "Dry" by Main Bursting at 33rd and Oxford Sts., Crater in The Roadway, Source: Bulletin, July 28, 1926
- bridge
- Bridges
- bridge, suspension
- Broad St. Geyser Formed by Break, Snapped Off by [?], Source: Bulletin, October 18
- Broken Main Floods Street, Morris St. at Broad Inundated for Half Block, Source: Bulletin, August 30
- Broken Main Floods West Penn Square, Fire Breaks Out in Commercial Trust Building at Same Time, Source: Ledger, May 18
- Broken Main Leaves Northeast Waterless, Fox Chase, Lawndale and Vicinity Affected by Drought, Source: Bulletin, November 23
- Broken Main Sends Water in Subway, Source: Ledger, February 13
- Broken Water Main Deadens 700 Phones, Spruce and Locust Exchanges Suffer by Accident, Partial Repairs Made, Source: North American, March 13
- Broken Water Main Floods Broad St., Source: Record, October 27, 1921
- Buck & Doe Valley Farms
- Budget To Be Cut More Than Planned, Council May Have to Review Work to Keep Within 1923 Income, Total of $1,450,000 Slashed, 2,600,000 to Go Deeper, Pruning Imperative, Source: Inquirer, November 15
- building
- Building details
- Building materials / Strength of materials
- buildings
- Building stones / Clay industries
- Building / Structural analysis (Engineering)
- Bureau Criticizes Water-Meter Idea, Council's Specifications Require More or Less Than Standard, Research Group Says, Flaws Picked in Ordinance, Source not known, May 14, 1928
- Bursting of Water Main Arouses Scores Uptown, 12-Inch Pipe Breaks With a Roar, but Repairs Are Quickly Made, Source not know, March 18
- Bursting Water Main Floods South Street, Block Between Eighth and Ninth Roped Off and Trolleys Rerouted, Source: Inquirer, May 23
- Bursting Water mains, Other Breaks Are Feared; Emergency Crews Working, Geyser-Like Report Heard as Mains Break-Miniature Lake Forms at 15th and Spruce Sts.-Drainpipes Clog-Market St. Store Suffers Much Loss-Pavement is Torn Up, Source: [Bulletin], September 7, 1926
- Burst Water Main Supply, Source: Inquirer, December 24
- Bus Snaps Fire Plug, Source: Inquirer, August 10
- Bustleton Main Breaks, Several Blocks Flooded Near Grant and Bustleton Aves., Source: Bulletin, June 18
- Buy Holmesburg Water Company, Is Mayor's Plea, Sale of State Fencibles Armory Also Proposed, Resolution Protesting Against McNary-Haugen Bill in Congress is Passed, Source: Ledger, May 9
- Buying Up Options on Trail of City's Great Water Plan, Speculators Said to Be Offering Fancy Prices for Farm Lands in Perkiomen and Tohickon Valleys-Damages on Reparian Rights May Reach Millions, Dam 80 Feet High Would Create Lake 4 ½ Miles Long, Source: Bulletin, May 12, 19[?]
- Buy Water Plants is Hall's Advice, Council Leader Asserts Oak Lane Should Have Relief From High Costs, But Differs With Mayor, Source: Ledger, November 23