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- Table title: The Analysis of Philadelphia Water, Source not known
- Tackling the Water Problem, Source: Bulletin, January 22
- Tacony's Water Row Up To Council, Source: Ledger, November 3, 1924
- Tacony Water Main Bursts, Streets Flooded Near State Road and Magee St., Source: Bulletin, September 27
- Take Over the Sectional Water Works, Source: Inquirer, June 5
- Take Real Action to Purify River, 15 Organizations at Mayor's Suggestion, to Call Meeting With State Expert, Source: Ledger, July 2
- Takes Up Water Problem, Record, February 12
- Tap the Poconos Urged by Raff, Builder Says That Would Solve the City's Water Problem for All Time, Outlines of His Plan, Estimates Cost at $116,000,000 and Ridicules Figures of Water Commission, Source: Record, January 22
- Taste in Water is Not Poisonous, Absolutely Pure and Safe Drink, However Unpleasant, is Verdict, Chlorine Not to Blame, Source: Bulletin, December 2
- Taste of City Water Drives Thousands of Families to Park, Carried in Autos, Source: North American, November 16
- Tavern Under Broad St., Subterranean Passage Revealed by Paving Cave-in, Source: Ledger, April 15
- Tax Bills By Mail, Source: Bulletin, January 15
- Taxpayer Starts Suit in Bid Fight, Charges Attempt to Prevent Competition in Pumping Station Contract, Opposes Change in Plans, Source: Ledger, July 29
- Tax Rate and City Salaries, Source: Record, April 9, 1921
- Technology Transfer -- Congresses
- Ten-Mile Tunnel For Water Urged, $10,000,000 Project Proposed to Bring Upper Delaware River Supply to West Philadelphia, Ample for Next 50 Years, Source: Ledger, May 8, 1929
- Tests Assure Oak Lane of Ample Water Supply, Suburban Company Plant Operates Under Municipal System, Source: Ledger, July 1
- Textile industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Text of Ledoux's Report to Mayor on Water Crisis, Source: Ledger, March 12
- That Broken Water Main, Source: Ledger, January 12
- The $116,000,000 Panacea, Source: Record, January 23
- The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act
- The Blame in the Water Matter, Source: Bulletin, March 8, 1926
- The Bushkill Dam for Water Supply, The Tri-State Agreement for the Use of the Delaware Makes It Available for the Use of Philadelphia, Source: Ledger, February 10
- The City's Water Needs, Source: Bulletin, December 30, 1927
- The City's Water Needs, Source: Bulletin, October 16
- The City's Water Problem, Source: Ledger, March 25
- The City's Water [?], Source: Bulletin, M[ay] [?]
- The City's Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, January 19
- The City's Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, January 6, 1923
- The City's Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, July 17
- The City's Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, October 8, 1924
- The City's Water Supply, Source: Ledger, June 13
- The City's Water Supply, Source: Ledger, October 6
- The Coal Situation, Source: Record, February 6, 1926
- The Cost of Water That Runs to Waste, Metering and Rigid Inspection Would Conserve the Existing Supply and Postpone the Expense of New Sources, Source: Ledger, September 18
- The Defective Lateral Program
- The Delaware River Compact, Source: Bulletin, [February] [?]
- The Delaware River Pact, Source: Bulletin, December 17
- The Delaware River Treaty, Source: Bulletin, April 18
- The "Filtered Sewage" Fake, Source: Record: November 19
- The Fire Menace of Water Shortage, Source: Inquirer, June 3
- The Hibernating Water Snake, Source: Record, November 22
- The Immediate Water Problem, Source not known
- The Lid for Water Failure, Source: Bulletin, March 19
- The Mysterious Water Program, Source: Bulletin, July 12, 1924
- The Northeast Protests, Source: Bulletin, November 14
- Then Why Spend All These Millions? Source: Inquirer, June 4, 1924
- The Old Oaken Bucket From Which, Source: Ledger, no date given
- The Peril to Health From the Polluted Schuylkill, Source: Record, June 5
- The Perkiomen Invasion, Source: Record, May 28
- The Public Wants the Facts, Source: Inquirer, June 4
- The Right Way to Tackle Schuylkill Pollution, Source not known
- The Schuylkill Supply, The Present Drought as an Argument for an Impounding Reservoir, Source: Bulletin, October 2, 1922
- The Scotching of the Water Snake, Source: Record, December 2[?]
- The Trenton Water Hearing, Source: [Bulletin], March 7
- The Voice of the Taxpayers, Source: Record, November 15
- The Waste of Water, Source: Bulletin, July 2
- The Water Controversy, Source: Ledger, March 7
- The Watering of Philadelphia, by Charles Hardy III
- The Water-Meter Bill, Source: Ledger, May 25
- The Water Problem, Source: Bulletin, January 13, 1925
- The Water Problem, Source: Bulletin, November 24
- The Water Question, Source: Bulletin, September 24, 1924
- The Water Report, Source: Bulletin, May 24
- The Water Report, Source: Ledger, May 26, 1924
- The Water "Shortage," Source: Record, June 12
- The Water Supply Collapse, Source: Record, March 13
- The Water-Supply Debate, Source: Ledger, June 18
- The Water Treaty, Source: Ledger, February 22
- The Water Treaty, Source: Ledger, January 15
- The Water Treaty, Source: Record, January 27
- The Year at City Hall, Source: Bulletin, December 31
- Third of City Water Declared Wasted, Board of Trade Tells Mayor Meters Would halt Loss of 100,000,000 Gallons Daily, Torresdale Plant Praised, Source: Ledger, February 24
- Third photo attached to the article from 2004.012.0215, title: Section of City Flooded by Bursting Main, caption:…The flood covered a section equivalent to about ten city blocks…, Source: Ledger, December 12
- Third photo, caption: Roadbed Washed Out on the Pennsylvania line between the Reading Railway tracks and 33rd St., Source: December 12, 1925
- This City Assured of Water Supply, Source: Ledger, March 15
- Thompson Street Culvert
- Thousands Go Dry by Pumping Station Boiler Breakdown, Chestnut Hill, Roxborough, Mt. Airy and Germantown Suffer, Normal Supply Promised Today; Obsolete Equipment at Shawmont Blamed, Source: Inquirer, February 27
- Thousands in Manayunk Go Without Gas, Freak Break in Main Affects 9000 Homes, Imperiling Community, Blast Caused Trouble, Hundreds of Employees Rushed to Scene to Protect Patrons, Source: Record, June 8
- Threatens to Oust Civil Service Board, Council Finance Committee Denounces "Red Tape" Methods in Use, Snow Removal Contracts and Salary Increase Incident Furnish Basis for Attack, Source: February 17, 1922
- Three in One Day, Source: Ledger, May 28, 1928
- Three Leaks Found in Water Mains, "Trouble Spots" Believed to Account for Part of 30,000,000 Gallon Daily Loss, Source: Ledger, September 27
- Three States, a River, and the Supreme Court, Source: Record, May 14
- Three States Divide Delaware River, Source: Inquirer, January 27, 1925
- Three States Split Delaware Waters, Treaty Agreed Upon at Shore Parley Gives Each One-third of Flow, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey in Pact to Settle Vexed Question, Source: Inquirer, December 6
- Three States to Claim Delaware River Water, Commission Asks Silzer to Arrange Conference on Policy, Source: Record, December 5
- Tie Up of $5,200,000 Loan Blocking Improvements, City Unable to Lay Water Mains to Supply Hundreds of New Homes, Source: North American, July 24, 1923
- Timeline
- To Build Big Reservoir, Water Company Will Create Large Lake Near Scranton, Source: Bulletin, August 5
- To Buy Garbage Plant, Council Committee Approves Purchase at $500,000, Source: Record, January 25, 1921
- To Check 'Illness' of City Employees, Council Threatens to Withdraw Sick-Leave Privilege Because of Abuse, Kills Motion to Add $1,000,000 to Street Repaving Appropriation, Source: Inquirer, November 27, 1920
- To Cleanse the Delaware, Source: Ledger, February 10
- To Cut Red Tape, Exemption of Water Bureau Chief in Interest of Efficiency, Source: Ledger, May 12, 1923
- To Demand Action on Ledoux Report, Crossan and Roper Will Call Up Survey at Tomorrow's Meeting of Council, Still Seek Murdoch Scalp, Source: Bulletin, March 17
- To Extend Water Service, Source: Ledger, August 7
- To Extend Water Supply, Contract Awarded for Service Pipes in West Philadelphia, Source: Record, November 16, 1920
- To Increase Revenues, New Water Ordinance in Council Will Net $400,000 Yearly, Source: Record, December 15, 1920
- Too Much "Private Agreement" Source: Record, May 31
- To Put $60,000,000 Loan Thru Council, Leaders Preparing Bill; Discard Mayor's Plans for New Water Supply, Source: North American, September 20
- To Resume Water Probe, Council Law Committee Also Will Consider $845,000 Sesqui Bills, Source: Bulletin, March 9
- To Return Only One Park, Bureau of City Property Gets Only Independence Square, Source: Record, December 16, 1920
- Torresdale 9,
- Torresdale First to Be Improved in New Water Plant, Station Will Be Enlarged to Reduce the Consumption From the Schuylkill, $10,000,000 Loan to Give Funds to Start Work, Steps to Supply Funds Will Be Taken Thursday and Dirt Will Fly in Few Weeks, Source: Ledger, May 25
- To Survey City Water, (photo of John Walter Ledoux included) Mayor Employs Expert to Find Water Trouble, Naming of J.W. Ledoux by Kendrick Believed to Presage Ousting of Murdoch, Davis, Ex-Bureau Chief, Offered Post, Declines, Pinchot Intervenes and Orders Two State Engineers Here to Trace "Breakdown," Source: Ledger, March 4
- Town on Water Rations, Shortage at Shamokin Results in Action to Keep Mines Going, Source: Record, November 21
- Towns Along Schuylkill Move to Stop Pollution, Culm From Mines Has Started to Clog Up the Channel Here, Source: Ledger, April 2[?]
- Trace Typhoid to Potato Salad, Infected by "Carrier" is Health Officers' Report on Jersey Outbreak, Wholly Absolve Oysters, Investigation of Cases After Firemen's Supper at Barnsboro Reveals Source, Source: Inquirer, November 4
- Transit and Water Must Come First, Source: Inquirer, January 26, 1924
- Transportation -- United States -- History
- Treatment of the Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, November 28
- Trench, Pipe
- Trenton Attacks Water Agreement, Source: Ledger, February 11
- Trenton Attacks Water-Pact Plan, Counsel Asserts Proposed Delaware River Treaty Would Benefit Only Penna. And N.Y., Hamilton Defends Idea, Source: Ledger, March 1
- Trenton's Fears, Source: Ledger, February 12
- Trenton to Delay Water Pact Vote, Legislative Committee Reports Against Ratification Now of Treaty With Three States, Inquiry is Proposed, Source: Bulletin, March 10, 2004
- Trenton Will Protest Tri-State Water Pact, Source: Record, February 4
- Tri-State Agreement on The Delaware River, A Compromise That Will Have to Be Thoroughly Examined Before It Is Ratified by Pennsylvania, Source: Ledger, January 27
- Tri-State Pact Hits a Snag at Trenton, Source: Inquirer, March 8
- Tri-State Pact to Give City Big Water Supply, Billion Gallons Daily From Delaware River Apportioned to This State, Jersey, N.Y., 240,000,000 Gallons Extra This City's Allotment, Treaty Just Signed Involves an Expenditure of $500,000,000 in 100 Years, Source: Ledger, January 26
- Tri-State Power Progress, Source: Bulletin, October 27, 1925
- Tri-State Treaty on Delaware Water, Source: Ledger, January 30
- Tri-State Treaty, Source: Ledger, April 10
- Tri-State Water, Fight Camden Annexation, Source: Record, February 29
- Tri-State Water Pact Shelved at Harrisburg, Sterling Ratification Bill is Sent Back to a House Committee, Source: Inquirer, April 12
- Tri-State Water Treaty, Ex-Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, Gives Reasons for Opposing Pact, Source: Ledger, April 16
- Trolley Jams Auto; Driver is Held, Source: North American, April 29
- Trolley Tracks Flooded on Amber St., Near Susquehanna Ave., Source: Inquirer, June 26
- Truck Sinks Into Street, Source: Ledger, May 1
- Tunneling
- Twenty-five Years Ago Today (March 16, 1901), Source not known
- Twenty-Fourth 21-26, 29
- Twenty Typhoid Carriers Left by Epidemic, One Held Responsible for Two Outbreaks Involving 68 Cases, Source: Ledger, September 9, 1921
- Two Early Moves For Better Water, Four-Mile Tunnel Sewer and Electrification at Torresdale Planned, Acquisition by City of Oak Lane Supply System Is Recommended, Source: Inquirer, February 9
- Two Engineers at City Pumping Stations Fired, Chiefs at Torresdale and Shawmont [Roxborough] Charged With Inefficiency by Director Biles, Move to Fix Culpability for Water Shortage, Bureau Heads Take Charge of Plants-Crossan Criticizes Dismissals, Source: Ledger, March 14
- Two Questions, Source: Ledger, June 5
- Two Water Companies in Camden are Merged, Seattle Traction President Will Be Head of New Firm, Source: Record, August 2
- Two Water Mains Burst and Flood Neighborhood, Pair of Policemen Get Drenched Putting Up Ropes, Source: Record, July 14
- Two Water Mains Burst, Streets Flooded at 8th and Walnut and at 20th and Spruce, Source: Ledger, December 24
- Two Water Plants Taken Over By City, Distribution Loop Relieving Shawmont [Roxborough] Pumping Station Put in Operation, Pipes in Oak Lane District Now Served by Municipal System, Source: Inquirer, July 1
- Two Water Projects Analyzed by Expert, Advantages and Disadvantages of Hall-Caven Proposals, Source: Ledger, October 22
- Typhoid Carriers, N.J. Health Board Asks Aid in Fighting Epidemic in Burlington County, Appeal Made to Local Authorities to Enforce Strictly State's Code, Source: Inquirer, September 9, 1921
- Typhoid Fever Being Routed, Source: Bulletin, January 17
- Typhoid Menace Here Seen in Sewage From Two Cities, Reading and Trenton Wastes Carry Germs Into Water Supply, Source: North American, April
- Typhoid Victim Dies, Both Brought to City From Jersey Shore Resort Where They Contracted Disease, Source: North American, October 4