From Cesspools to “Big Pipes”: Portland’s Sewer Projects

An exhibit from the holdings of the City of Portland Archives

1870-1926

Men standing the tunnel with machinery. — Men in the N Delaware Avenue and Arlington Place section of the Peninsula Tunnel, 1950. City of Portland (OR) Archives, AP/29033.

City of Portland Archives and Record Center

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and Records Center, making city administrative and historical records accessible to the public
and City employees for research and inspection in accordance with Oregon’s public records laws.
www.portland.gov/archives

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