Tracking Down the Roots of Our Sanitary Sewers Photos, materials, documents, and links on the development of sewage conveyance and treatment systems over the past 5500 years. Over the past fifteen years, Jon Schladweiler, the Historian of the Arizona Water Association, has researched and collected materials related to the history of sewage conveyance systems. Many of these have been displayed in a traveling exhibit entitled The Collection Systems Historical Photo and Artifacts Display. The overall collection of sewer history materials covers the era from approximately 3500 BCE through the 1930s CE.The purpose of this website is to house this dynamic collection of materials about the evolutionary development of sewers over the past 5500 years, and to provide a location for the sharing and distribution of information to others. The donation of additional photos, sketches, articles, books, or other sources of historical information on the history of sewers is welcome.

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