Annual Report, Volume 8Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1909 |
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acres amount April Area Arlington August Average quantity Boston pumping station Boylston Brighton Brookline capita cent Chelsea Chestnut Hill Reservoir cities and towns city of Boston Cochituate Aqueduct connected construction Cost per Million December 31 Deer Island East Boston East Boston pumping easterly excavation extension Faintly vegetable February filter-beds foot-pounds Framingham Reservoir gallons gallons per day High-level Sewer high-service inches January July June Kendall streets Labor Lake Cochituate land Lifts and Duties linear feet Loan maintenance Malden Medford meters Metropolitan District Metropolitan Sewerage mile of sewer Million Foot-gallons million gallons Milton North Metropolitan System November October operation Quantity of Water quantity pumped Quincy Rainfall repairs screens Section Separate and combined September sewer shaft slight South Spot Pond square miles Sudbury Reservoir Sudbury watershed supplies TABLE tion Total tunnel Wachusett Aqueduct Wachusett Dam Wachusett Reservoir Wachusett watershed watershed West Boylston West Roxbury Weston Aqueduct Weston Reservoir
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Page 97 - Oakdale the Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad...
Page 161 - At this station are four submerged centrifugal pumps with impellers or wheels 8.25 feet in diameter, driven by triple-expansion engines of the Reynolds-Corliss type. Contract capacity of 1 pump: 100,000,000 gallons, with 19-foot lift. Contract capacity of 3 pumps: 45,000,000 gallons each, with 19-foot lift. Average duty for the year: 42,300,000 foot-pounds.
Page 1 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 164 - The latter consists of a specially designed engine of the vertical cross-compound type, having between the cylinders a centrifugal pump rotating on a horizontal axis. Contract capacity of the two original pumps: 4,500,000 gallons each, with 13-foot lift.
Page 1 - There are also employed in the administrative office a paymaster, an assistant in auditing, two general clerks, three stenographers and clerks, a telephone operator, a messenger, and a janitor with two assistants, one of whom acts as watchman.
Page 95 - Quantity of Water stored in Wachusett Reservoir, and in Reservoirs on Sudbury and Cochituate Watersheds, at the Beginning of Each Month. Wachusett Reservoir and Dam.
Page 71 - On the claims of the following it is impossible to state the amounts due for land and other damages, as no sums have been agreed upon, and suits are now pending in the courts for the determination of most of them : — Anna L. Dunican, Carrie S. Urquhart, N. Jefferson Urquhart, Edwin N.
Page 170 - This is equivalent to 2.8 cubic feet for each million gallons of sewage pumped at Deer Island. The material intercepted at the screens at the South Metropolitan sewerage stations has amounted to...
Page 240 - To meet the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act the treasurer and receiver general shall, with the approval of the governor and council, issue scrip or certificates of debt, in the name and behalf of the Commonwealth and under its seal, to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars, for a term not exceeding forty years.
Page 85 - St. Mary's street, in the town of Brookline, extended in a northerly direction, would intersect the said boundary line ; thence running southwardly by the westerly line of said St.