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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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t. Of thislength, 396 feet, near Ridge Road, are in rock tunnel. The remain-ing 1,778 feet are in open cut, averaging 27 feet in depth. Theexcavation in open cut is through sand and gravel, with rock iii thebottom for two-thirds of its length at the upper end of the section. An average of about 400,000 gallons of ground water per dayhas been pumped from the excavation. Work was begun Decem-ber 10, 1900. The whole of the excavation in trench and tunnel iscompleted. About 200 feet of masonry remain to be constructed.Four 8-iuch branches have been inserted at intervals of about 200feet, to provide for unsewered areas in Milton. Section 63, Milton. Division Engineer in Charge. —Frederick D. Smith. Assistant E^igineer. — Seth Peterson. Contractor. — National Contracting Company, New York, N. Y. This is a 10 feet 7 inches by 11 feet 7 inches sewer, 2,262 feet inlength, commencing in Brook Road, at a point 800 feet easterlyfrom the Blue Hills Parkway. It follows Brook Road, crosses the
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No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 191 Metropolitan Blue Hills Parkway, and terminates in park landssoutheast of the Neponset River. It is wholly in open cut, at anaverage depth of 25 feet. The excavation is in coarse sand andgravel, with rock in the first 700 feet length. Work was begunDecember 3, 1000, and 1,882 feet have been excavated to date.West of the Blue Hills Parkway, where the work is being carriedon at two openings, the excavation is in wet sand and gravel, andlarge quantities of ground water are found, approximating 1,000,000gallons per day at each opening. The arch was reinforced withconcrete spandrels for a length of 150 feet near the river, up to theharder ground found near Brush Hill Road, and across the Metro-politan Blue Hills Parkway. An 18-inch branch has been insertedat Brush Hill Road and two 8-inch branches at intervals of about 300 feet. Section 65^ Hyde Park. Division Engineer in Charge. — C. Barton Pratt.Contractor. —Beckwith & Qnackenbush, Mohawk, N. Y. T

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