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Title: First-Nineteenth annual report of the Metropolitan water and sewerage board ... 1901-1919
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board Sprague, Henry Harrison Walcott, Henry Pickering, b. 1838
Subjects: Water-supply Sewerage
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter printing co., state printers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Railroad, Section 41, Pipes, special eastings and valves, $8,037 53 Lajdng pipes, including pipe-laying materials and earth exca-vation, Rock excavation, ......... Valve chambers and concrete for bracing curves. Work in connection with changes in underground structures, Making connection, building embankment over 600 feet of pipe line, testing and preparing line for service,Engineering and preliminary. Total, $16,057 82 Cost per foot, $5.24. Hyde Park Pumping Station — excavating and grading Lot and for Side Track, and constructing Concrete Foundations, etc.Cast iron pipes and special castings, ....Excavating and giading, 4,006 cubic yards at 49.4 cents.Concrete foundation walls, 339 cubic yards at $8.35 per cubic yard, Gravel screened for concrete and not used, .Laying sewers, drains and miscellaneous work.Engineering and preliminary.Real estate, legal convej^ancing and expert, Total, ■ . . . $15,416 38 $106 03 1,978 34 2,516 90 363 65 810 57 2,608 11 7,032 78 UPPER GATE CHAMBER
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.TKWT*^^^^^^^ WACHUSETT DAM - Section through Gate Chambers and Power Station No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 83 Hydko-Electric Plaxt. In September, 1910, a contract was made bv the Board with theConnecticut River Transmission Company, imder which the Boardagreed to furnish for a period of five years electrical energy to bedeveloped at the Wachusett Dam in Clinton, by utilizing the fall ofwater drawn from the Wachusett Reservoir into the Aqueduct foruse in the Metropolitan District. On November 9, 1910, a contract was made with the S. MorganSmith Company, of York, Pa., to furnish and install in the powerhouse which was built in 1904, 4 hydraulic turbines and 4 electricgenerators, with a small generator to be used as an exciter, with thenecessary wiring and switchboard. Contracts were also made forfurnishing 4 48-inch hydraulic lift valves, 4 48-inch Yenturi meters,and about 113 tons of castings 48 inches and 60 inches in diameter,for use in the penstocks supplying water to the turbines.

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