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A.M. Nov A.M. Sept acres April August boilers Boylston Brook Brookline Capita cent Chelsea Chestnut Hill Reservoir cities and towns Cochituate Aqueduct Commonwealth completed concrete construction contract Cost per Million cubic yard December 31 Deer Island Distinctly vegetable drainage East Boston engine excavation extension Faintly unpleasant Faintly vegetable February feet filter-beds Framingham Reservoir gallons gallons per day gravel High-level Sewer high-service inches January July June Labor Lake Cochituate land length low-service maintenance Malden March masonry Medford meters Metropolitan District Metropolitan Sewerage miles Million Foot-gallons million gallons North Metropolitan System November October operation pipe line Population portion Portland Pounds of Coal pumping station Quantity of Water Quincy Rainfall repairs Section September sewage sewer shaft slight Somerville South Spot Pond square Stoneham Street Sudbury Reservoir Sudbury watershed supplies TABLE tion Total tunnel heading Wachusett Aqueduct Wachusett Dam Wachusett Reservoir Wachusett watershed West Boylston West Roxbury Weston Reservoir
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Page 242 - ... no laborer workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.
Page 241 - Each contract to which the state or a municipal corporation or a commission appointed pursuant to law is a party which may involve the employment of laborers, workmen, or mechanics shall contain a stipulation that no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor...
Page 1 - March 21, 1909, and he was reappointed for the three years next succeeding. The membership of the Board has consequently remained as in the preceding year: Henry H. Sprague, chairman, Henry P. Walcott, MD, and James A. Bailey, Jr. William N. Davenport has continued as secretary and in charge of the auditing department. Alfred F. Bridgman has been the purchasing agent and Miss Alice G.
Page 240 - Be it enacted, etc., as follows : SECTION 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and seventeen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby amended by inserting after the word
Page 50 - Works, a complete schedule of which is kept on file in the office of the Board : — Office furniture, fixtures and supplies; engineering and scientific instruments and supplies...
Page 168 - 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 248 - No laborer, workman or mechanic so employed shall be requested or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day or more than forty-eight hours in any one week except In cases of extraordinary emergency. Only a case of danger to property, to life, to public safety or to public health shall be considered a case of extraordinary emergency within the meaning of this section.
Page 174 - 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 1 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 65 - District, which was at the rate of 143 gallons per day per person of the estimated number contributing sewage in the District. The daily discharge of sewage per capita is...