Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 16552. Purchase of waters or lands to which appurtenant in adjoining county;  construction of waterworks, etc.

It shall be lawful for the city of Philadelphia to purchase and hold, in fee simple, or for any less estate, any springs, or streams of water, or any water-powers, or privileges, or any lands, tenements and hereditaments, to which any springs, or streams of water, or any water-powers, may be appurtenant, situate, or being wholly, or in part, in any one, or more, of the counties adjoining the city and county of Philadelphia, and to build, construct and erect thereupon water-works, reservoirs, store-lakes, ponds, and so forth, for the collection, purification and preservation of the water from such springs and streams;  and to purchase and hold lands, through and upon which to make, build, construct, dig and lay viaducts, aqueducts, canals, tanks and water-pipes and mains, and every other apparatus suitable for the constant conveyance of the water from such reservoirs, store-lakes and places of collection, to the city of Philadelphia, for the use of the inhabitants thereof.