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The amount expended during the year for maintenance was $5,600 03, divided as follows :
Cleaning catch-basins, $4,380 95
Cleaning and flushing sewers, 426 40
Repairing sewers, 121 34
Repairing catch-basins,
201 02
Miscellaneous,
467 32
$5,600 03
The amount expended each month was as follows :
December, 1910,
$109 13
January, 1911, 57 99
February,
231 33
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March,
$212 89
April,
565 60
May,
1,028 60
June,
1,091 91
July,
309 57
August,
552 81
September,
664 95
October,
438 72
November,
336 53
$5,600 03
CONSTRUCTION.
As in maintenance, so in construction, the work required to be done between December 1, 1910, and May 1, 1911, was attended to by Superintendent of Streets Hogan, no organiza- tion having been made to take over this work and it was simply continuing him in charge of the work he had been doing before the Sewage Disposal Commission was created. But little work was required of him, however, as the total expenditure for the five months was $263.86.
Since May 1, Mr. Jackson, my assistant, has had charge of the day labor force on construction work as well as maintenance.
The work to be done under construction account consists of the building of such main sewers and drains as may be ordered by the Mayor and Aldermen, the building of catch- basins ordered, and the making of the connections of buildings with the sewers.
SEWERS. The length of new sewers built in 1911 was 4,813 feet or .91 of a mile. The following table shows the length of sewers built in the different streets, together with other interesting information. The total cost of the completed sewer is given in each case, except Elizabeth street which is un- finished and the cost of that sewer is to November 30.
SEWERS BUILT IN 1911
Cost of Construction
STREET
Size in inches
Length in feet
Depth in feet
Material excavated
Engin- eering
Labor
Pipe
Brick
Castings
Sundries
Total
Beech
15
451
8
Gravel
$8 78
$488 77
$143 10
$4 38
$20 00
$11 78
$676 81
$464 01
Bridge
8
345
6.25
Sand and clay
18 48
232 23
39 16
13 13
19 85
15 20
328 05
135 62
Carey
8
286
6.75
· Gravel
5 60
215 01
60 83
26 25
30 00
16 30
353 99
193 80
Elizabeth
8
810
9.5
Rock
5 34
1,803 39
277 87
43 75
80 00
256 24
2,466 59
Essex
8
150
7
Rock and gravel
1.08
272 34
25 00
11 16
309 58
111 51
Martel
8
321
8.75
Clay
3 22
365 56
61 42
8 75
20 00
25 41
484 36
297 03
Maverick
8
511
9
Gravel
16 21
589 44
60 50
35 00
40 00
42 56
783 71
559 79
Melrose
8
308
5.9
Gravel and marl
9 07
145 47
45 54
10 50
10 17
220 75
143 06
Pratt
8
362
Marl and clay
6 50
197 09
71 41
10 50
10 00
6 30
301 80
431 87
Pratt road
1
8
169
8.2
Marl and clay
6 54
924 20
182 20
43 75
40 00
48 81
1,245 50
1,228 49
Roosevelt
10
336
65
Sand and boulders
16 45
415 18
65 60
21 87
20 00
39 86
578 96
389 22
4,815
$7,760 10
$3,954 40
12
764
7
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Assessment
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Sewers have been ordered but not yet built in Clifton, Co- lumbus, Rollstone and Woodland streets and in Gardner and Westminster Hill roads. On these sewers some preliminary work has been done and the pipe purchased so that work can be begun early next season.
The total length of all main sewers December 1, 1911, was 222,062 feet or 42.06 miles. Sewer assessments amounting to $2,833.55 have been levied during the year.
The length and size of brick, and brick and cement con- crete sewers, December 1, 1911, not including the main inter- cepting sewer, is as follows :
Diameter in Inches
Length in Feet
14x21
1,590
16×24
285
18×27
3,775
24
240
20×30
4,293
22×33
710
24×36
450
26×39
4,710
28x42
1,555
30×45
490
32×48
4,150
36×54
600
40×60
838
. 60
480
The total length of brick, and brick and cement concrete sewers is 24,166 feet or 4.58 miles.
There are 145 manholes on the line of these sewers.
The length and size of pipe sewers December 1, 1911, is as follows :
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Diameter in Inches
Length in Feet
6
33
8
16,019
10
61,702
12
78,968
15
21,551
16
659
18
11,540
20
5,389
24
60
12×18
895
15×18
1,080
The total length of pipe sewers is 197,896 feet or 37.48 miles.
There are 907 manholes on the line of pipe sewers.
DRAINS. As one of the problems of the improved sewer system is the separation of sewage and surface water it seems advisable in all additions to the sewer system to so build as to make as little additional work as possible when the time for separation comes. With this end in view no catch-basins have been constructed and connected with any of the sewers built in 1911. In Elizabeth street it seemed desirable to have catch- basins constructed, and the Mayor and Aldermen ordered that a pipe for surface water only be laid in the trench with the san- itary sewer. This has been done, a 15 inch pipe being laid from South street to Salome street, a distance of 370 feet, and a 12 inch pipe from Salome street to Whitney street, a distance of 260 feet.
The only drains (pipes laid for and carrying surface water only) in the city are given in the following table.
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DRAINS LAID TO DECEMBER 1, 1911.
STREET
LOCATION
Size in inches
Length in feet
River
Near Orswell Mill,
12, 15
566
South
From South St., near Laurel St., to river,
18
490
Main
From Willow street, easterly,
18
162
Water
From Union Machine Co. office to river,
18
150
Martel
From Daniels street, easterly,
18, 20, 24
320
Pine
From Milk street to Burnap street,
10
520
Delisle
From Clarendon street to Battles street,
12
546
Elizabeth
From South street to Whitney street,
12, 15
630
3,384
CATCH-BASINS. Three catch-basins have been built, as ordered by the City Council, as follows: In Water street near the driveway to the Arden mill, in South street near Henry street, and in Clinton street at Damon street. Owing to a change in the street lines at the junction of Highland avenue and Lunenburg street it was necessary to rebuild the two catch- basins at that location. This work was done by the sewer de- partment and the cost of the work was transferred from street construction account. Catch-basins have been ordered in Dover, Falulah and Nutting streets and in Duck Mill road. These will receive my early attention.
It seems to me that before ordering any new catch-basins it would be a good thing for the City Council or some committee to confer with some representative of the sewer department, as by so doing there might be stopped the undesirability of order- ing catch-basins in locations where they ought not to be built, or where if built they would be of no use at the time of separation of storm water from sewage. There are many catch-basins al- ready built which would never have been built if some definite plan had been considered with reference to that particular locality. This method of doing work entails an unwise ex- penditure of money. The catch-basin ordered in Nutting street is, in my judgment, uncalled for as there is a basin within 150 feet of the location asked for and the opening up of a good gutter to the present basin would be all that is needed.
HOUSE CONNECTIONS. Permits to connect with main sewers to the number of 109 were issued between May 1 and November 30. Not all were for new houses, some being for
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old houses on the line of new sewers that were built. No permit to connect with a sewer is issued until the applicant has received or applied for a permit to excavate in a public street. Many inquiries are made relative to the cost of making a sewer connection, and to in a measure meet this desire on the part of owners I will say, that with 72 connections made during the year under ordinary conditions, the cost of all work and ma- terial outside the house averaged 42 cents a linear foot. Where rock excavation is necessary the cost is increased four or five times the average. In about 25 per cent of the connec- tions the cost was less than 30 cents a foot, and in about 15 per cent the cost exceeded 60 cents per foot.
MAP. Accompanying this report is a map of the city showing all the sewers, together with the size of each and the various sewer assessment districts.
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID A. HARTWELL, Superintendent.
RESERVOIR
OVERLOOK
LOSSOM
MARSHALL
ASHBURNHAM
ALPINE
G
ARLINGTON
ROAD
ASHBUR
WEST
ROAD
TEPLEAS
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SNOW
NORTH
MYR
MAIN
127
LAUREL
MILL
CEMETERY
LAUREL-
154
ECC
LASTONE
AMILK
CHAELE
ROLL
LASHUS
B
OAK
INSTITUTE
10
TO' GEANI
ELIZABETH
ST
WINCH
MILK ST
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FITCHBURG
LUNENBURG
STREET
SEWER
ASSESSMENT
DISTRICTS
astrid
10545 per front foot
Q 7189 .
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07570 -
0.5985
0 6089 .
.
0.8379
of cost exclusive of manholes
in proportion to area of lot of
100 feet maximum depth
ROAD
ROAD
***- 100 .....-
ST JOSEPH
completed trunk server
-- trunk sener under contract
---- proposed frunk semer
Sewer outlets
G
HEMIS
ROAD
LAM
SOUTH
FALULAR
ROLLSTONE
ROAD
CITY OF FITCHBURG SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMMISSION
PLAN OF SEWERAGE SYSTEM
300
3600
SCALE OF FEET JANUARY 1912.
MECHANIC
0908
NORTH
OAD
MT VERNON
HARSH
HIGH
SHEPOR
ABANT
PRICHARD
LACE
EDAR
KLONDIKE
UNEHOURG
ROAD
WALLACE
RIVER ST
ROLLSTONE HILL
EATON
FITCHOURS DIVISION
COLUMBUS
MAYLAND
WESTIUNSTER
PHILLIPS
ST BERNARD CEMETERY
ROAD
G
CUETON SY
SHE
MADISON
E
BAKER
1
ROA
1
G&MER ' FITCHBURG
NASHUA
DIVISION
Street Seners
assessment districts.
CEMETERY
ROAD
CANTON
PHOT
CHAMBER
BROOK
FOREST HILL
HEYWOOD
SUMMER
FRANKLIN
ARE
FILTRATION
FITCHBURG LEOMINSTER
HENRY
APNSTER
FRANKLIN
A
4500
FRANKLIN
PUTH
HIGHLAND
FITCHILL AVE
GARNET
WAVE
**** 000-
WINTER
FAIRMOUNT
MAZEL
-600
CEMETERY
WESTMINSTER
FITCHBURG
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REPORT TO THE Sewage Disposal Commission FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS UPON THE
ENGINEERING WORK
OF THE YEAR 1911
DAVID A. HARTWELL, Chief Engineer HARRISON P. EDDY, Consulting Engineer
MARCH, 1912
OUTLINE OF ENGINEERS' REPORT.
Introduction. Engineering Organization.
Preliminary Studies Relative to Intercepting Sewer and Deduc- tions Therefrom.
Period of Time in the Future for Which Provision Should be Made.
Estimate of Future Population.
Present and Estimated Future Sewered Area.
Sewer Districts.
Density of Population in Sewer Districts.
Water Supply.
Storm Water.
· Ground Water.
Industrial Wastes.
Quantity of Sewage for Which Intercepting Sewer Should Provide.
Quantity of Sewage for Which Purification Works Should Provide.
High and Low Level Districts.
Intercepting Sewer.
Section 1. Section 2A. Section 3.
Construction in 1911.
Section 3. Intercepting Sewer.
Section 2A. Intercepting Sewer.
Section 1. Intercepting Sewer.
Section 4. Intercepting Sewer. Lateral Connections.
Weir to Ascertain Leakage.
Disposal Area. Rain Gage. Department Yard and Building. Sewage Disposal. Manufacturing Wastes.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMMISSION
CITY TREASURER
A
CITY SOLICITOR
CITY AUDITOR
CONSULTING ENGINEER
CHIEF ENGINEER and SUPERINTENDENT
STENOGRAPHERend BOOKKEEPER
CONSTRUCTION and MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT
2 FOREMEN
STOREKEEPER
FIELD WORK
2 ASSISTANT ENGINEERS
LABORERS
.
HEADQUARTERS
2 FIELD PARTIES
INSPECTORS
DESIGNING ENGINEER
/
DRAFTSMEN
FIG. 1
REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER AND CONSULTING ENGINEER
FITCHBURG, MASS., February 5, 1912.
Sewage Disposal Commissioners :
GENTLEMEN : - We respectfully submit for your consider- ation the following report of the work done on engineering and construction with relation to the improved sewer system to December 31, 1911.
You will find the matter of preliminary studies and the various data collected to assist in fixing quantities of sewage flow, sizes and grades, is presented in considerable detail but we feel that these studies and the deductions made therefrom ought to be made a matter of record. So far studies have been completed only with reference to fundamental data for the main intercepting sewer, the studies relative to disposal and separa- tion still being under consideration.
ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION.
Following is a list of engineers who have been employed for differing periods of time during 1911 in the positions indicated :
David A. Hartwell, Harrison P. Eddy, Albert J. Holmes, Gordon H. Fernald, Ernest E. Lothrop, Maurice W. Howe, Philip W. Taylor, Edward Dahill, Jr., Milton B. Hager, Clarence E. Pethybridge,
Chief Engineer Consulting Engineer Assistant Engineer Assistant Engineer Assistant Engineer Instrument man Instrument man Instrument man Instrument man Rodman
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Henry J. Hart,
Rodman
Cyril B. Raymond,
Rodman
John E. Herlihy,
Rodman
Ralph E. Bull,
Rodman
Lawrence G. Rice,
Rodman
Frederick L. Roache,
Rodman
No inspectors have been appointed on any of the contracts it being considered as more satisfactory on this work to have all inspecting done by the engineering force.
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PRELIMINARY STUDIES RELATIVE TO INTERCEPT- ING SEWER AND DEDUCTIONS THEREFROM.
PERIOD OF TIME IN THE FUTURE FOR WHICH PRO- VISION SHOULD BE MADE. The construction of intercepting sewers, as well as trunk and lateral sewers, involves not only much expense but also considerable inconvenience to the pub- lic. If sewers are build of too small a capacity, the expense of providing relief sewers, or of replacing the old ones with new and larger structures, is generally considerably more than of building them somewhat larger in the beginning. It is there- fore, good policy to build the sewer system of ample capacity for a long period in the future.
The construction of tanks and filters does not cause incon- venience to the public and such works can be readily and eco- nomically extended from time to time as the quantity of sewage increases. In the design of the disposal works, therefore, it is not necessary to provide at the outset as liberally for future re- quirements as in the design of the sewer system.
The Act of 1901, giving the city authority to borrow money for the construction of sewers and purification works, provides that the indebtedness shall be incurred for a period of not more than thirty years. Obviously, the sewer should be built of suf- ficient capacity to serve without enlargement or duplication during the period for which the loans are made, so that it will not be necessary to replace them at least until after the loans have matured.
After giving careful consideration to the various phases of this problem, it was decided that the economic period, for which sewers should be built, should be at least thirty years and the estimates of population and of area, which will be tributary to the sewer system, have been made to cover the period ending in 1940. These estimates of quantities, however, have been made liberal and it is probable that the sewers will prove of sufficient capacity to serve the city a somewhat longer time. In designing such portions of the purification works as can be readily extended from time to time, provision will be made for the needs of the city to 1925 or 1930, (when a population of 55,000 will have been reached), the intention being that these
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works shall be extended at or about 1925 to provide for such increase in population as may then seem justified.
ESTIMATE OF FUTURE POPULATION. It is extremely difficult to estimate with accuracy the future growth of . any community as such growth depends greatly upon the development of manufacturing, and the continued operation of manufactories already established. There are, however, certain facts which may serve as a guide in estimating the popu- lation which may reasonably be expected in the comparatively near future, such as the growth of the city in the past, the growth of other cities during the same period of time, and the growth of larger cities after they reached a population equal to that of Fitchburg as the present time.
The growth of Fitchburg from 1875 to 1910 is shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1, - GROWTH OF FITCHBURG FROM 1875 TO 1910.
Date
Population
Per cent Increase
1875
12,289
1880
12,429
1.1%
1885
15,375
23.7%
1890
22,037
43.3%
1895
26,409
19.9%
1900
31,531
19.4%
1905.
33,021
4.7%
1910
37,826
14.6%
Average rates of increase per period of 5 years,
18.1%
It is seen that the rate of increase of population has varied greatly from time to time, having been as low as 1.1 per cent during the five years ending in 1880 and over 43 per cent during the five years ending in 1890. The average of the rates of gain for each five years during the past thirty-five years has been 18.1 per cent.
A study has been made of the rate of increase in cities in Massachusetts, closely approximating the size of Fitchburg, between 1875 and 1910. For these studies ten cities were selected, five having a population greater than that of Fitchburg and five having a smaller population in 1875. The rate of
TABLE 2-Rate of increase in population of certain Massachusetts cities for five year periods from 1875 to 1910
Period
Salem
Chelsea
Taunton
Haverhill
Newton
Brockton
Malden
Pittsfield
Quincy
Everett
Average
Fitchburg
1875-1880
6.2
5.0
3.8
26.3
5.5
28.6
10.8
8.9
15.4
13.9
12 4
1.1
1880-1885
1.9
18.0
11.6
18.0
16.3
52.7
36.6
8.3
14.9
40.0
21.8
23.7
1885-1890
9.7
8.6
7.5
25.8
23.4
31 3
40.4
19.4
37.7
90.0
( 22.6*
43.3
1890-1895
11.9
12.0
6 6
10.2
13.2
21.5
29.0
18.4
23.9
67.8
21.5
19.9
1895-1900
4.3
9.0
14.5
23.0
21.6
20.8
13.3
6.4
15.4
31.0
15.9
19.4
1900-1905
4.7
9.4
-0.2
1.8
9.7
19.3
13.0
14.9
17.5
19.6
§ 11.0
4.7
1905-1910
6.1
-13.0
10.6
16.6
8.1
19.0
16.7
28.5
16.3
15.0
( 15.2}
14.5
Average
6.5
7.0
7.8
17.4
14.0
27.6
22.8
15.0
20.2
39.6
( 17.4§
18.1
* Omitting Everett
t Omitting Taunton
# Omitting Chelsea
§ Omitting Everett, Taunton, Chelsea, each for 1 five year period
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579
12.2+
J 12.4
$ 17.8
( 29.4
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REPORT OF SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMMISSION
growth of each year of these cities, as well as of Fitchburg, is shown upon Figure 2. The cities which were larger than Fitchburg in 1875 were Salem, Chelsea, Taunton, Newton and Haverhill. Of these Salem, Newton and Haverhill are now larger than Fitchburg, while Chelsea and Taunton are smaller. The relatively low population of Chelsea is due to the recent disastrous conflagration, but for which its population would probably have been slightly higher than that of Fitchburg in 1910. The cities of Brockton and Malden, which were smaller than Fitchburg in 1875, have increased at so great a rate that they are now larger. By comparing the lines on Figure 2 and the percentages in Table 2, it is apparent that Fitchburg has occupied a middle place throughout this period of thirty-five years, six cities having had a smaller and four a larger rate of growth.
A comparison has been made of the rates of growth of the largest ten cities in Massachusetts, Boston excepted, from the time each had a population equal to that of Fitchburg at the present time (37,826) to 1910. On Plate 1 lines have been drawn representing the numerical increase in population of these cities for every period of five years. From this diagram and from Table 3 it appears that Lowell, New Bedford and Springfield have maintained a more rapid rate of increase since they exceeded the present population of Fitchburg than before, while all of the other cities have had a somewhat lower rate of growth. The average rate of increase in these ten cities before they reached the present size of Fitchburg was 22.8%, while it was only 16.1% after that time. The average of the rates of increase in population in these cities, from 1865 and 1875 to 1910, are given in Table 3.
It appears that six of the cities have, on the average, materially exceeded 15% increase per period of five years, and two, Lowell and Lawrence, have had a rate of growth of less than 15%.
Upon Plate 1 a line has been plotted, based upon an esti- mated increase in population of Fitchburg of 15% during every five years. It will be noted that this line falls somewhat lower than those of the cities which have had the most rapid growth, while it rises above those which have had a smaller rate of in- crease : namely, Lowell, Cambridge, Lawrence and Holyoke.
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CITY OF FITCHBURG SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMMISSION
60 000.
GROWTH OF SEVERAL MASS. CITIES
FROM 1875 - 1910
50 000.
COMPARED WITH GROWTH OF FITCHBURG
o
Brockton.
Malden.
40 000
NOVEMBER 24 191'
Population
DAVID A.HARTWELL HARRISON P. EDDY
Chief Engineer Consulting Engineer
.....
Taunton.
30 000
Newton.
Salem.
Chelsea
...
.
launton.
.. Newton :_
Quincy .
0 000
Brockton. o
Pittsfield
Everett .
Quincy
-10 000.
Everett
Years.
IAM
1875
1880
1885
1890
1895
1900
1905
1910
.
Haverhill
Newton.
. Theissa
Fitchburg.
Salem.
Everett
Pittsfield .
Chelsea.
Haverhill.
Malden.
Newton
.
-
a
0 -
FIG. 2
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TABLE 3.
Rate of increase in population of ten cities of Massachusetts, both before and after reaching the 1910 population of Fitchburg (37,826), and the average for five year periods from 1865 and 1875 to 1910.
Name
End of five year period when nearest size of Fitchburg
Average rate of increase before that date +
Per cent.
Average rate of increase after that date to 1910 Per cent,
Average of rates of increase per period of five years Per cent.
Period of Time
Worcester
1870
25
16.8
19.66
1865-1910
Fall River
1875
39.5
15.1
25.45
1865-1910
Lowell
1870
6.7
12.8
12.61
1865-1910
Cambridge
1870
27.4
13.0
15.58
1865-1910
New Bedford
1890
17 9
24.5
21.1
1875-1910
Lynn
1880
19.4
15 2
15.75
1875-1910
Springfield
1885
14.4
18.8
16.24
1875-1910
Lawrence
1880
22.3
14.3
13.94
1875-1910
Somerville
1890
29.3
18.0
19 95
1875-1910
Holyoke
1895
25.7
12.7
20.16
1875-1910
Average
22.8
16.1
18.04
Fitchburg
14.6
15.0*
* to 1940
t for period of 20 years before that date
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Taking all conditions into consideration and giving due weight to the rate of growth of Fitchburg and other New Eng- land cities in the past, it seems probable that Fitchburg will hardly maintain as great a rate of growth in the next thirty years as it has in the past thirty-five years, and that a reasonable prophecy of the growth during the next thirty years will not exceed 15% per period of five years. The designs for the inter- cepting sewer have been based upon this assumed rate of increase in population, resulting in a population of 87,200 in 1940.
The estimated population at the end of each five years periods from 1910 to 1950 is given in Table 4.
TABLE 4.
Estimated Future Population of Fitchburg.
(15% increase each 5 years) .
Date
Population
1910
37,826
1915
43,400
1920
49,800
1925
57,400
1930
66,000
1935
75,800
1940
87,200
1945
100,300
1950
115,000
Before leaving this subject attention should be called to the fact that in 1901 the late Freeman C. Coffin estimated the pop- ulation of Fitchburg in 1950 at 165,000, and that in 1903, Mr. T. Howard Barnes estimated the population in 1950 at 145,000. These estimates were both made immediately after a period of twenty years, during which time the growth of Fitchburg had been very rapid and quite unusual, not only for Fitchburg, but for other cities of this state. The per cent increase in popula- tion for each five year period of this term of twenty years is given in Table 2.' The average rate of increase during this period was 26.6%. This is a much higher rate of increase than has been maintained by any of the larger cities of Massachusetts during the period from 1865 to 1910, and does not appear at this
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120,000
--
Fall River
110,000
-
100,000
Cambridge
Lowell.
--
90,000
New Bedford
----
Lynn
80,000
Population
New Bedford
n . Springfield
...
60.000
New Watford.
Worcester
-
50,000
All curves coincide as to population al This point.
River
Spomí
Fall
Lowell
Lawrance
GROWTH OF SEVERAL MASSACHUSETTS CITIES AND CURVE FOR ESTIMATING FUTURE POPULATION OF FITCHBURG
NOVEMBER 23, 1911 .
New Bedford
(Worcester
Fall River .
These dates apply to Fitchburg Curve only
20.000 **
1885
1890
1895
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920
1925
1930
1935
1940
1945
1950
1955
1960
1965
70,000
& .. , Somerville
=====- Lowell
Holyoke /
CITY OF FITCHBURG . SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMMISSION .
40,000
30,000
Holyoke
DAVID A HARTWELL., Chief Engineer HARRISON P. EODY, Consulting Engineer
Springfield
Worcester ...
Somerville
Cambridge
Lawrence.
-
Worcester. Fall River --------
Lowell ---
--
.
Worcester
Fall River.
Lowell ..
-
Fitchburg
TABLE 5 ASSUMED RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND TOTAL AREAS OF SEWER DISTRICTS AS OF 1940 .
DISTRICT NUMBER
RESIDENTIAL AREA IN ACRES
INDUSTRIAL AREA IN ACRES
TOTAL AREA IN ACRES
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
1
753 .0
222.0
975.0
2
323 .7
9.6
333.3
3
261.5
31.6
293.1
4
429.0
38.0
467.0
5
197.4
15.0
212.4
6
173.8
17.6
191.4
7
346.0
137.0
483.0
8
86.5
20.0
106.5
9
610.6
107.5
718.1
10
30.7
1.8
32.5
11
218.6
3.4
222.0
12
0.0
63.0
63.0
13
229.6
11.5
241.1
14
58.8
9.0
67.8
15
364.8
40.0
405.2
16
286.6
5.0
291.6
17
16.4
4.6
21.0
18
20.5
0.0
20.5
19
0.0
16.1
16.1
20
266.5
25.0
291.5
21
8.6
0.0
8.6
22
15.5
38.0
53.5
23
336.6
7.5
344.1
24
191.5
0.0
191.5
25
253.2
41.2
294.4
26
273.4
43.3
316.7
27
378.5
0.0
378.5
28
747.0
348.0
1095.0
TOTAL
6 878.3
1 256.1
8134.4
DAVID A. HARTWELL. Chief Engineer HARRISON P. EDDY . Consulting Engineer
J.A.L Jan 17 1912
:
583
REPORT OF SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMMISSION
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