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Title: Annual report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Subjects: Sewerage Water-supply
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter printing co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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,226.63; length of aqueduct, 5,300 feet, including crossing under the tracksof the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at Nobscot Station; width ofaqueduct, 13 feet 2 inches. General work, which had been suspended since the beginning ofthe year, was resumed April 2 and pushed forward in the samesatisfactory manner as in previous years. Masonry was startedApril 14 and completed May 29, a month in advance of the requireddate. The finishing of the grading, dressing the slopes with loam,skim-coating the unfinished portions of the arch and giving theaqueduct a final cleaning, proceeded until July 11, when every con-dition of the contract had been fulfilled, and the contractor withdrewhis forces. Only 300 linear feet of aqueduct was left to be built this season,and, as there was no need for haste, no larger force was maintainedthan could be employed to the best advantage to the contractor. The maximum force employed on this section was 51 men and 8horses, for the week ending May 16.
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DCLU> >■q: 00Q CO CO ooO DCCJ< XCJ q:< LUQ. LULU (- CO h- oo N. O Q LU ID o < o I- co LU No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 123 Sections 7 and 9.—Riveted Steel Pipe Lines, including Bridge over Sudbury River. Contractor, Edward Kendall & Sons; date of contract, March 8,1902 ; amount of contract, $135,752.56; total length of pipe lines, 4,731 feet. Except the hauling of 450 linear feet of pipe to Section 7,thereby completing the delivery of all the pipe to be laid excepttwo short filler pieces, all field operations were discontinued fromJanuary 1 until April 27, when a small force began overhauling theair compressor and other machinery. On May 4 pipe laying wasresumed and continued westerly, over the Sudbury River and up thesteep slopes on the west side of the valley to siphon chamber No. 1,where the final connection was made on July 28. The work done during the year was mainly the laying of 1,475feet of riveted steel pipe, 7% feet in diameter, and the riveting andcalk

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