Daily News | When Philadelphia’s rivers were at their worst, a wealthy industrialist wanted to pipe in water from the Pine Barrens.
Animal parts, raw sewage, and a noxious brew of dangerous chemicals poured into Philadelphia’s rivers on a daily basis back in the late 1800s.
Joseph Wharton, one of the city’s wealthiest industrialists, had a plan. Wharton, founder of the Wharton School, had settled into a quieter life among the cranberry bogs in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. He owned 150 square miles of that sandy, seemingly worthless land. He also owned the vast aquifer of water beneath it.
“It was absolutely critical to saving the Pinelands,” said Jaclyn Rhoads, assistant executive director of theThe Pinelands National Preserve, which covers about 1.1 million acres, was created in 1978, curtailing development and protecting the aquifer. Today, the aquifer supplies water to millions of New Jersey residents but it is not limitless, Rhoads said, and is under threat by the encroachment of salt water because of sea levels rising.
Wharton, according to Holst, held fast to his water plan. Despite the New Jersey ruling, Wharton presented the idea to Philadelphia City Council, again, in 1895 and 1896. He tried to drum up interest in 1900 too, when the city had finally decided to build a filtration plant.
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