Annual Report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, Volume 4 |
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acres amount April average Boston bridge Brighton Brook Brookline built Central Massachusetts Railroad Charles River valley Chestnut Hill Reservoir Clinton Coal connection construction contract Cost per million cubic yards cut-off trench December 31 Department dike division engineer Earth open cut embankments ending December 31 Estimated excavation cubic yards extension Faintly vegetable filter-beds Flow force employed Framingham Reservoir gallons per day High-level Sewer high-service inches January June Lake Cochituate linear feet maintenance Malden masonry Maximum meters Metropolitan District Metropolitan Sewerage Metropolitan Water million gallons Newton North Dike North Metropolitan System Nut Island Oakdale pipe line Population portion Portland cement Quincy Railroad Rain repairs riprap River valley sewer rock Sect Section sewage Sewerage Board soil South Metropolitan Spot Pond Sudbury Reservoir supplies TABLE Total tunnel Wachusett Aqueduct Wachusett Dam Wachusett Reservoir Ward Street pumping waste channel waste-weir Water and Sewerage watershed West Boylston West Roxbury westerly Weston Aqueduct Weston Reservoir
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Page 162 - Charlestown Pumping Station. At this station are three submerged centrifugal pumps, two of them having impeller wheels 7.5 feet in diameter, the other 8.25 feet in diameter. They are driven by triple-expansion engines of the Reynolds-Corliss type. Contract capacity of 1 pump: 60,000,000 gallons with 8-foot lift. Contract capacity of 2 pumps: 22,000,000 gallons each, with 11-foot lift. Average duty for the year: 47,400,000 foot pounds.
Page 42 - 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 1 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 274 - ... and the same shall be paid by the city or town into the treasury of the Commonwealth at the time required for the payment and as a part of its state tax. SECTION 13. The supreme judicial court shall have jurisdic- Jurisdiction of tion in equity to enforce the provisions of this act, and shall fix сыто™« ш " ,,,.', . „ . ., relation to this and determine the compensation of all commissioners appointed act.
Page 125 - are included all cases where positive information could not be obtained, and where it is suspected that there may be some objectionable drainage ; under the heading "Premises Vacant" are included all cases which at present furnish no objectionable drainage, but which might furnish such drainage if the premises were occupied ; under the heading "Unsatisfactory...
Page 265 - ... in the name and behalf of the Commonwealth and under its seal, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, for a term not exceeding thirty-two years.
Page 160 - 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: 52,600,000 foot-pounds.
Page 145 - The remaining 108.471 miles of sewers and other works have been constructed by the metropolitan boards. The locations, lengths and sizes of these sewers are given in the following tables, together with other data referring to the public and special connections with the systems : — NORTH METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Page 271 - interest and sinking fund requirements of such part of the loan aforesaid as shall be equal to the amount of said expenses which the cities respectively are required by the award to pay, and the interest and sinking fund requirements of the...
Page 50 - December 81, 1904, 636,084 04 754,690 41 878,557 12 (2) ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RECEIPTS. The annual appropriations for the maintenance of the Metropolitan Sewerage "Works, the receipts of the Board which are added to the appropriations for maintenance, and the expenditures for maintenance for the year ending December 31, 1904, have been as follows : — North Metropolitan System.