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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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year. Averageprogress of excavation, 24 feet per week; maximum progress of ex-cavation, 42 feet per week. The masonry lining in this heading has been completed to the endof the heading. The sewer is 7 feet in diameter, with not less than12-inch Portland brick walls. The total weekly progress for the whole section has been: averageper week, 46 feet; maximum per week, 83 feet. Section 81, Broohline. Division Engineer in Charge. — Seth Peterson. Contractors. — Bruno & Petitti, Contract No. 60 (Sta. 0 to 21 + 40). HughNawn Contracting Company, Contract No. 61 (Sta. 21 + 40 to 34 + 15). This section extends from near the town boundary line of Brook-line, at Chestnut Street, along Chestnut, Kendall and Cypress streets,to Boylston Street in Brookline, ■— a distance of 3,415 feet. Two contracts have been made for this construction, one extendingfrom the town line along Chestnut and Kendall streets, a distance of2,140 feet, with Bruno & Petitti. The sewer for this length is lo-
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No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 155 cated about 20 feet to its water line below the street surface. Theexcavation is expected to be largely in sand, gravel and clay, withconsiderable water. The contract was made November 27, 1907. On account of thesevere weather of the winter, the Board permitted the contractor todelay starting on this work until March 1, 1908. A second contract, extending from Kendall Street, through CypressStreet, to Boylston Street, a distance of 1,275 feet, was made withthe Hugh Nawn Contracting Company on November 25, 1907. Ofthis length, 940 feet will be in tunnel, in earth and Roxbury pudding-stone, and 335 feet in open trench. Work in the open cut sectionwas started December 2, 1907, on the south side of Boylston Street.At the date of this report 130 feet of trench have been excavated tograde. The excavation at this location has a depth of about 25 feet,— 20 feet in sand, gravel and clay. The bottom 5 feet is in Rox-bury pudding-stone. The excavation has been h

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