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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ar. The extension to Belmont requires the building of 6,367 feet ofsewer, and the work has proceeded so far towards completion thatit is expected that the sewer will be finished at an early date. Thesewer is designed also to provide for the sewage of the portion ofCambridge through which it is built. The Legislature also authorized the issue, at the request of theBoard, of bonds to an amount not exceeding $250,000, in additionto the amounts hitherto authorized, on account of old claims fordamages and liabilities incurred for past construction on the NorthMetropolitan System. Considerable progress was made in the settlement of old suitswhich had been pending several years. The cost of the North Metropolitan System of sewerage up to thepresent date has been $5,901,914.09. (2) South Metropolitan System. No additions to the area of the South Metropolitan System weremade during the past year. The system provides for the sewageof a portion of the Charles River valley which lies south of the
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No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 49 Charles River, and the city of Waltham and the town of Watertown,which are situated on the north side of the river. It also providesfor the sewage of a portion of the Neponset River valley. Besidethe city of Waltham and the town of Watertown, it provides forthe sewage of the cities and towns of Brookline, Hyde Park, Newton,Milton, Quincy, part of the town of Dedham, the Brighton districtand portions of the Back Bay, Dorchester, Roxbury and West Rox-bury districts of the city of Boston. The area of the South Metropolitan District comprises, as lastyear, 102.55 square miles, having now 37.07 miles of sewers and acontributive population of 140,501. The sewage of the District,which has for several years been disposed of by an arrangementwith the city of Boston through the Moon Island sewer, is to becarried into Boston harbor, off Nut Island, through the High-levelSewer, so called, now under construction. During the past year the work upon the High-level Sew

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