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- Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best, Source: Ledger, October 21
- Daily Water 'Loss' 30 Million Gallons, City Starts Inquiry to Solve Mystery of 'Where' and 'Why', Many Leaks May Be Clue, Source: Ledger, September 25
- Damages Against City for Water Main Break, Source: Record, April 20
- Dams -- Design and construction
- Dance in Caven Office, Public Works Employees Entertained by Retiring Director, Source: Ledger, January 1, 1924
- Danger of Water Famine to West Torresdale Gone, Owner of Well Agrees Not to Shut Off Supply Pending Conference, Source: Ledger, March 15
- Davis and Hughes Agree N.Y. Could Divert Delaware, Former Secretary of State Says Court Would Provide Compensation, Source: Record, April 18
- Davis Endorses Perkiomen Plan For City's Water, Former Chief of Bureau Here Declares Project Recommended by Commission Will Give Phila. An Adequate Supply, Scores Dunlap Proposal as Giving Only One Source, Source: Bulletin, June 2, 1924
- Davis Heads Fire Bureau, Source: Ledger, December 1920
- Davis is Asked to Head City Water Commission, Ousting of Dunlap Arouses Roper; Alleged Scandal in Sewer Construction Aired, Source: North American, January 26
- Davis May Head Water Engineers, City Hall Rumors Former Water Bureau Chief Will Return, Close Friend of Hall, Source: Bulletin, January 24
- Davis Refuses to Be Water Chief; Murdoch Due to Go, Former Bureau Head Wouldn't Take Post "Under Any Circumstances," Mayor Says, Dodges Saying Whether He Offered Him Place, Understanding Kendrick Would Swing Ax Given as Reason for Roper's Defeat, Source: Ledger, March 6
- Davis Sees Hall on Oak Lane Water Deal, Residents of Locality Demanding Extension of City Service, Source: Record, June 13
- Dead Fish Plague Hits Torresdale, Film of Oil on River Believed Responsible for 'Intolerable' Littering of Shores, Residents Fell Odors, Source: Bulletin, June 26
- Deadlock on Chief of Water Bureau, Murdoch-Van Loan Feud Blamed for Failure to Name Ely Successor, Mackey Favors Promoting Deputy, Is Belief, But Director is Adamant, Source: Inquirer, April 5
- Declares Water Metering Wouldn't Reduce Use, Source: Record, June 6
- Defeat of Water Pact is Foreseen, Hearing Before Legislature Falls Into Highly Technical Discussion of Data, Another Session Monday, Source: Ledger, March 8
- Defending City Water, Source: Ledger, June 19
- Defends Damming of Delaware River, New Jersey Engineer Declares It Would Not Diminish Any Town's Water Supply, Trenton Fights Treaty, Source: Bulletin, February 11, 1927
- Delaware and Schuylkill Canal
- Delaware Control Urged in New Pact, Adoption of Revised River Agreement Advocated in State Commerce Chamber Reports, Annual Sessions Opened, Source: Ledger, January 27
- Delaware Indians / Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial Period, ca. 1600 - 1775
- Delaware is Seen as Tri-State Bond, Penna., New Jersey and New York Linked by River, Jersey Society Hears, Camden Bridge and Giant Power Vital Interests, Woodruff Declares, Source: Inquirer, December 19
- Delaware River
- Delaware River, Oxygen, Water Quality
- Delaware River Water Compact, Source: Bulletin, February 28
- Delaware River Water Diversion Fight Predicted, Valley Protective Association Promises Opposition in Courts, Bridge Plans Opposed, Source: Record, July 30
- Delaware River, Water Quality
- Delaware River Water, Source: Ledger, January 16
- Delaware River Water, Source: Ledger, January 27
- Delaware River Water, Source: Ledger, May 22, 1929
- Delaware Water Pact is Drafted, Agreement Will Allot Fair Portion to Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, City's Share Adequate, Source: Bulletin, January 23
- Delaware Water Pact Passed by N.Y. Senate, Source: North American, March 12
- Delaware Water Supply Needed in City, Says Wells, Deputy Atty. General Adds Phila. Rights Must Be Conserved, N.Y. Planning to Get Power by Commission, Penna. Officials Uninformed of Local Needs for Next Fifty Years, Source: North American, June 2
- Delaware Water Treaty is Nearing Completion, Tri-State Commission Expects to Adopt Measure in Near Future, Source: Ledger, December 6
- Delaware Water Treaty, Tri-state Commission May Announce Diversion Plans This Month, Source: Ledger, December 20
- Denies Delaware Water is Banned, Kendrick Spikes Report New Supply Plans Exclude Upper River, Gives Data on Project, Source: Ledger, August 29
- Denies Friction in Cabinet, Nobody in Mind for Water Bureau Chief, Mackey Declares, Source: Bulletin, April 5
- Denounces Water Waste, Opening of Hydrants Causes Serious Fire Menace, Chief Says, Source: Bulletin, July 21
- Deny Water Bill Rumor, Commission's Report Not Rejected by Kendrick, Member Says, Source: Bulletin, August 28
- Desmidiaceae / Algae -- Great Britain
- Despite this break, another one on…,Source: Ledger, December 18
- Details of Water Report Withheld, Data Mayor Promised Not Made Public Until Fall, Plan $10,000,000 Loan, Source: North American, July 12
- Diagnosis / Bacteriology -- Technique / Communicable diseases
- Diligence in River Purification, Source: Bulletin, June 17
- Dilly-Dallying, Source: Bulletin, February 24
- Director Caven Says Water is Very Bad, Urges More Vigorous Work in Carrying Out Plans for the Disposal of Sewage, Source: Ledger, January 6, 1922
- Director Murdoch's Plan, Source: Bulletin, February 8
- Disastrous Fire Lowers Berwick Water Supply, Source: North American, November 27
- Discharge of M'Crudden is Affirmed by Murdoch, Answer to Insubordination Charge Called Insufficient, Source: Ledger, no date given
- Discuss Northeast Water Purchases, Commissioners Ainey and Clement Favor City's Plan to Take Over Three Companies, Source: Ledger, July 21
- Discuss Water Situation at Roxborough Meeting, Governor Called Upon to Stop Pollution of Schuylkill, Source: Record, March 4
- Dispute Holds Up Fairmount Dam, Mayor and Art Jury in Controversy Over Foot Bridge, Councilmen Told, Endangers Water Supply, Continuance of Narrow Streets Up for Discussion in Committee, Source: Ledger, December 2
- Distribution 136-138, 191-337 (charts)
- Distribution 14-15
- Distribution 34-55
- Distribution 67, 97- 133 (report)
- Distribution arch
- Dividing the Delaware, Source: Bulletin, February 20
- Dividing the Delaware, Source: Record, July 30
- Dividing Up Loan Funds, Many Public Improvements Advanced by Committee, Source: Record, January 25, 1921
- Dock Creek
- Does the United States Take Full Advantage of Its Natural Resource? Source: Ledger, no date given
- Don't Leave the Spigot Open, Source: Bulletin, August
- Drafting 140-141
- Drainage
- Drastic Steps to Stop Water Pollution Urged, 128 Supplies in Penna. Affected, Engineers Report, Schuylkill Not Fit For Bathing, Mayor Makes Assertion Before Gathering of 200 Experts, Source: North American, October 17
- Dredging -- History
- Drinking de Luxe at City Hall, Source: Inquirer, March 18
- Drinking water -- Analysis / Microscopy
- Drinking water -- Miscellanea / Water quality -- Miscellanea
- Dropping of Tunnel From Water Plans to Encounter Snag, Commission to Oppose Proposed Change at Meeting in Near Future, Dunlap Says Tohickon-Perkiomen Cost Need Not Exceed $60,000,000, Source: Inquirer, June 17
- Drought Compels Train Suspension, No Water for P.R.R. Through Freights in Pottsville Region, Shamokin Reserve Gone, Empty Dams and Reservoirs May Mean One-Hour-a-Day Ration, Source: Ledger, December 12, 1922
- Drought Continues, Short Rations Necessary; Many Industries Are Hard Hit, RRS. Feel Pinch, Source: North American, November 22
- Drought is Broken by Snow and Rains, Source: Inquirer, December 12
- Drought Menaces Cambria's Mills, 8000 Losing Jobs, Johnstown Will Turn Company's Water Into City Mains in Three Days, Many Other Big Plants and Collieries Hard Hit, Restrictions Grow Apace as Scarcity Increases All Over Rural Pennsylvania, To Ban Family Washing, Conditions Around Reading "Truly Alarming"-Shamokin's Plight Worse, Source not known, November 23
- Drought Menacing Upstate Industries; May Halt Mining, Score of Collieries Must Close Unless Water Supply is Replenished, Hauto Power Plant to Be Forced Idle if Rain Does Not Fill Big Dam, Source: North American, November 1[?]
- Drought Situation Becoming Acute In All Parts of State, Rivers at Lowest Stage in Many Years; Epidemic Feared, Animals Suffer, Source: North American, October 5, 192[?]
- Drought Victims Get Little Relief, Fear Freezing Water That Will Prevent Moisture From Sinking Into Ground, Mining Centers Suffer, Tales of Serious Damage to Winter Wheat Come From Many Counties, Source: Ledger, December 6
- Drowns in Shallow Pool, Pumping Station Employee Believed Stunned by Fall Into Basin, Source: Ledger, June 26
- Drugs in Drinking Water, Source not known, November 25, 1922
- Dry plate negatives.
- D.S. Kimball Next President of Mechanical Engineers, [?] of Engineering College, Cornell, and H.P. Liversidge, Philadelphia, Among Officers Nominated by American Society for Ensuing Year, Source not known
- Dump River Pact Into the Discard, Conferees Decline to Ratify Tri-State Treaty for Control of the Delaware's Waters, Keep Commission Alive, Coal Mining Companies Get the Credit for Successfully Opposing Plan, Source: Record, April 16
- Dunlap Again Attacks Mayor's Water Report, Replies to Hasskarl Article, Showing Commissioner Changed Mind Since 1920, Everything is Too Vague, No Details Given to Public, Except That Cost Will Be Almost $100,000,000, Source: Record, July 2
- Dunlap Again Scores Experts' Water Report, Declares Wrong Records Were Given at Last Public Hearing, Mayor Holds Conference, Has Round-Table Discussion on Plans, But Reaches No Conclusion, Source: Record, June 10
- Dunlap and Neeson to Remain, Source: Inquirer, December 26
- Dunlap Asked to Inspect Watershed, 2-Day Visit to Perkiomen-Tohickon Project is Now Planned, Mayor Invites Council, Source: North American, October 22
- Dunlap Backs Water Plan, Former Bureau Chief Sees Need of High Pressure in City's Center, Source: Bulletin, October 31
- Dunlap Charges Gross Negligence Caused Drought, Either That, Stupidity or 'Deliberate Attempt to Cripple Pumping Station,' Says Former Bureau Chief-Disputes Murdoch's Explanation, Crossan and Daly Demand More Pressure in Northeast, Source: Bulletin, March 2
- Dunlap Charges Ousting Followed Threat From hall, Source: Inquirer, May 20
- Dunlap Denounces Plan as Nonsense, Seen $40,000,000 Waste and Filtered Sewage for Bulk of People for 60 Years, Blames Hall's "Bullheadedness" for Adherence to Perkiomen Proposal, Source: Inquirer, September 19
- Dunlap Disputes Murdock on Water, 'Seventh Ward Stuff', He Says of Statement Delaware at Torresdale is Pure, Bureau Head Replies, Source: Bulletin, September 23
- Dunlap Flays Mayor's Firing of Water Aides, "Rank Injustice," Says Former Bureau Head, Who Declares Men Were "Sacrificed," Kerr and McGowan Did Not Have Charge of Repairs at Torresdale and Shawmont Stations, He Adds, Source: Inquirer, March 15
- Dunlap Foresees Raise in Fares, Gas and Taxes, Says Public Is So Apathetic That All Sorts of Gouges Are Being Planned, Too Many Wasteful Plans, Water Supply May Suffer Because of Many Schemes to Throw Away Money, Source: Record, June 22
- Dunlap Hurl[s] New Water Plan Attack, Former Chief Says Commission's Scheme Cannot Be Regarded Seriously; Exaggerated Cost of Perkiomen Project Laid to Interests Insistent on Its Use, Source: Inquirer, September 20
- Dunlap is Invited On Watershed Trip, Mayor Asks Former Chief of Bureau to Go With Party to Inspect Sites, Both Perkiomen-Tohickon and Neshaminy-Delaware Locations to be Viewed, Source: Inquirer, October 22
- Dunlap May Get New City Hall Job, Ousted Water Bureau Head Considered for Chief of Street Cleaning Division, Other Changes Expected, Source: Ledger, January [?]
- Dunlap Not Invited to Take Water Trip, Hall Denies Ex-Bureau Chief's Charge He Had Him Barred From Party, Source: North American, October 28
- Dunlap Not to See Sources of Water, Former Bureau Chief Out of Mayor's Inspection Party on Trip Today, Blames Hall for Omission of Invitation; Council Head Denies Charge, Source: Inquirer, October 23
- Dunlap Now Raps City Hall Annex, Former Water Chief Says "Rainbow Chasers" are Juggling City Finances Recklessly, Tart Reply by Hall, Source: Bulletin, June 17
- Dunlap Old Place, Former Water Bureau Chief Can Have Job at Least Long Enough for Pension, Ely Might Come Later, Source: Bulletin, January 7
- Dunlap Opposes New Sewage Plan, Engineer Tells Chemical Society Proposed Treatment Will Not Improve Water, [H]opeless to Attempt to Make Delaware Non-Carrier of Disease, He Says, Source: Inquirer, November 21
- Dunlap Ousted From Water Job; Murdock Named, New Appointee Former City Engineer of Chicago, Has Done Great Work, Says Mayor, Fired Chief Declares Hall Has Carried Out Threat to 'Get' Him, Source: North American, January 25
- Dunlap Plans Use of Upper Delaware Watershed Supply, River Above Trenton and Neshaminy Creek to Be Utilized, Estimated Cost of $60,000,000 as Against $135,000,000 For Hall's Project, Source: Inquirer, July 14
- Dunlap Says Experts O.K. His Water Views, Three at 'Engineers Symposium' for Removal of Torresdale Intake, Source: North American, January 20, 1925
- Dunlap Scores New Water Plan, Former Bureau Chief Calls It Wanton Waste of Many Millions, Sees Menace to Health, Water Served From the Delaware Declared to Be Only Filtered Sewage, Sticks to Neshaminy Site, "Acting Mayor" Hall Intimates His Plan is Based on Opinion of Experts, Source: Record, May 28
- Dunlap Sees Bar to Filter Repairs, Says City Charter Prohibits Use of $5,000,000 in Loan Bill for This Purpose, Water Report Shelved, Source: Bulletin, October 4
- Dunlap Sees N.J. Power Pact Stand Benefit to Penna., Asserts Pinchot Now Should Return Measure to Legislature, New York City Expected to Proceed With Plans Despite Defeat of Project, Source: Inquirer, March 12
- Dunlap, Water Chief, Source: Ledger, January 10
- Dunlap Water Idea Assailed by Hall, Councilman Says Public Won't Seriously Consider Delaware River Supply, New Plan to Mayor Soon, Source not known
- Dunlap Water Office Head, Davis' Resignation Produces Series of Promotions in City Departments, Source: Ledger, May 9