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City Maps
$108.90
Use of automobile
125.00
Schoolhouse inspection
33.00
Printing Public Works Dept. Report
45.00
Stamps, stationery and sundries
290.44
Telephone service
35.26
Advertising
25.90
Recording deeds, etc.
31.61
$695.11
Balance
$7.99
WATER DIVISION
Cement mains on Orris Street from Garden Street to Walton Park, Renwick Road from Richardson Road to the Wakefield Line were re- placed by Cast Iron Pipe and at a lower depth, and Upland Road main extended.
Fifty new services were laid and one service abandoned.
Hydrants and Gates
No additional hydrants have been placed. One hydrant was abandoned. Hydrants are maintained by this Department.
Seven gates have been placed and one abandoned.
Water Meters
.
Fifty-three meters have been installed and twenty removed. Twenty-three meters were placed on new services put in the past year. Ten meters were added to existing services already metered and twenty meters added to services previously put in but not metered.
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Maintenance and Operation
The entire system of mains, services, hygrants, water meters, etc. has had careful attention, and the necessary repairs and changes have been made. Following are some of the items:
7 services in private premises cleaned.
27 joints in iron pipe repaired.
44 service leaks in street repaired.
33 services in street cleaned.
7 breaks in cement pipe repaired.
29 services in street renewed with lead.
5 services in street renewed with lead lined.
28 services in private premises renewed with lead.
5 services in private premises renewed with lead lined.
28 gates repacked.
Hydrants have been oiled, repaired, painted and kept free from snow and ice. The Table of Relay gives length, size, etc., of cast iron pipe · used to replace defective or small cement pipe. There still re- mains about ten and seventy-three one hundredths (10.73) miles of cement pipe that should be replaced by cast iron pipe as soon as pos- sible.
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CITY OF MELROSE
Total Pipeage of the City
Length in feet 3/4 inch pipe.
1,363
Length in feet, 1 inch pipe. 2,105
Length in feet, 11/2 inch pipe 373
Length in feet, 2 inch pipe 6,476
Length in feet, 4 inch pipe.
55,209
Length in feet, 6 inch pipe 153,434
Length in feet, 8 inch pipe
25.731
Length in feet, 10 inch pipe
20,334
Length in feet, 12 inch pipe.
23,097
Length in feet, 14 inch pipe
3,024
Length in feet, 16 inch pipe
5,223
Total 296,371
Length of cast iron pipe, 239,702 feet or 45.40 miles.
Length of cement pipe, 56,669 feet or 10.73 miles.
Total miles, 56.13.
Number of services in use
4,271
Number of meters
4,419
Number of fire hydrants 383
Number of gates on mains 688
Number of stand pipes for street sprinkling 33
Number of watering troughs
2
Number of ornamental fountains
3
Number of drinking fountains (bubblers)
9
Number of fire services 20
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
WATER CONSTRUCTION-1920
Cast Iron Pipe Laid
Gates
LOCATION
Length Feet
Size Inches
No.
Size Inches
Griswold Road at Main St ....
11
6
1
6
Hawley Road at Main St ...
19
6
1
6
Holland Road at Hydrant.
1
6
Orris Street at Warren St ..
1
6
Orris Street at Mendum St.
4
6
1
6
Renwick Road at Hydrant.
1
6
Upland Road Extension, easterly
60
6
Proposed Street off Main St.
12
6
1
6
Totals
106
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WATER RELAY-1920
Cast Iron Pipe Laid
Pipe Abandoned
LOCATION
Length Feet
Size Inches
Length Feet
Size Inches
Holland Road
8
6
8
6
cast iron cement
Orris Street
333
6
333
4
Orris Street
11
8
11
4
1 cast iron
Renwick Road
376
6
376
4
cement
Richardson Road
190
6
Lowered
cast iron
Sears Avenue
155
6
Lowered
cast iron
Kind
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CITY OF MELROSE
WATER ASSESSMENTS AND CONSUMPTION
The annual assessments paid by the City of Melrose as its pro- portional part of the cost and operation of the Metropolitan Water Works are given below:
Year
Total
1898
$2,332.94
1899
4,921.63
1900
6,740.49
1901
12,546.32
1902
14,434.93
1903
17,815.34
1904
19,722.73
1905.
20,478.53
1906.
25,230.09
1907.
26,971.19
1908
28,693.90
1909
24,523.38
1910
19,640.91
1911.
21,200.58
1912
20,978.01
1913.
22,684.86
1914.
22,647.92
1915.
19,321.32
1916.
18,936.29
1917
18,835.83
1918
20,222.33
1919.
22,670.68
1920
23,153.10
The average daily per capita consumption (gallons) of water in Melrose, as recorded by the Venturi meter, operated by the Metropoli- tan Water Works is shown for the years 1907-09 and 1917-20.
1907
1908
1909
1917
1918
1919
1920
118
89
63
51
66
58
61
In 1908 general metering of the City was commenced and in 1909 practically all services were metered. All new services are metered when put in use. Tables show saving made by metering.
CONSTRUCTION
Balance Jan. 1, 1920.
$10,789.28
Less Appropriation for Ell Pond Park
1,500.00
$9,289.28
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Expended
Services:
Stock and insurance
$897.04
Labor and teams
1,526.81
2.423.85
Meters Installed :
Stock and insurance
$53.38
Labor and teams
85.41
138.79
Main Lines :
Stock and insuran e
$1,090.34
Labor and teams
1,340.51
2.430.85
4,993.49
Balance
$4.295.79
MAINTENANCE
Appropriation
$20,000.00
Expended
Services, maintenance and repairs .
$3,166.88
Relay main lines
2,307.07
Maintenance and operation main lines
1,656.22
Maintenance and operation hydrants
744.84
Meters, reading
2,257.00
Meters, remove and repair
1,539.54
Salaries and general account
3,335.94
Hardware and sundries
431.20
Stamps and stationery
372.41
Telephone services
111.60
Stock, labor and insurance
245.06
Travellers Insurance Co.
188.76
Rent of yard
161.91
$16,518.43
Balance
$3.481.57
INSIDE SERVICES AND CHARGES
Total receipts
$4,219.19 598.85
3.620.34
Less refunds
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Expended
Payrolls, insurance and tools
$1,825.22
Stock and teams
1.752.40
Overdraft 1919
42.72
3,620.34
Stock Account
Stock on hand Jan. 1, 1920.
$7,985.55
Stock purchased 1920
4,435.26
Stock. labor and yard rent
398.70
$12,819.51
Credit
By stock charged other accounts
$4,138.38
By stock maintenance account
1,523.09
5,661.47
Balance
$7.158.04
Cost of System
Construction to Jan. 1, 1920
$509,470.88
Construction 1920
4,993.49
Total cost to Jan. 1, 1921
$514,464.37
Water Rates
Received by Treasurer :
1914
$19.75
1915
2.25
1916
10.00
1917
25.43
1918
94.28
1919
8,118.91
1920
43.483.62
$51,754.24
Summons
105.60
$51,859.84
$53,534.67
1920 rates as billed.
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
HIGHWAYS
Main Street .- The contract was awarded Simpson Brothers Cor- poration for the construction of the Hassam Compressed Concrete Pavement from the end of the pavement laid in 1913 near Porter Street to the Wakefield Line. Construction was commenced April 29 and completed September 9. This was a much needed improvement and the pavement on Main Street is a credit to the City.
On account of recent legislation relieving Street Railway Companies from paving tracks, new construction, etc., the Railway Company would not reuew the rails and paving, or repave between and in the tracks, or change the grade of the tracks, and only repairs were made where joints or rails were defective.
Edgestone was reset where out of line and grade aud sidewalks repaired. The old material excavated to be replaced by the new pave- ment was used for street construction on Tremont Street at Ell Pond, Albion Street, Day Street, Pratt Street, Cliff Street, Avon Street, Hesseltine Avenue, Pearl Street, Boardman Avenue, Briggs Street, School Street, Mystic Avenue and Rowe Street. This material spread to grade and rolled improved all the above streets at a small expense. The granite blocks from gutters and crossings not required on the work have been used for paving gutters in various parts or the City or stored for future use.
Linwood Avenue from Lynde Street to Park Street was macada- mized and the work should be continued to Sylvan Street.
Sears Avenue .- Edgestones were set on both sides, gutters paved, sidewalks and lawus graded, catch basins built and the roadway near- ly completed. This work was unusually difficult as such a number of very large boulders were encountered and the ledge near Orris Street was very hard and dangerous stone to blast.
Main Street at Essex Street .- The corner of Essex and Main Streets has been rounded, making a very decided improvement.
Main Street and Porter Street .- The northerly corner of Porter and Main Streets has been rounded to correspond with the Hospital corner and the angle at Main and Green Streets rounded. These changes are improvements, making these corners much safer for traffic.
Garden Street construction was completed and Sanford Street and Geneva Road nearly completed.
Marvin Rcad at the junction of Richardson Road and a part of Richardson Road was filled, regraded and rolled.
All highways previously treated with tar or asphalt have been kept in good condition by filling and patching all holes or depressions with a tar mixture manufactured for the purpose, and the streets where necessary were treated with a dust laying coat of tar covered with sand.
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Additional streets have been added to the street sprinkling list. and treated with tar for a dust layer.
While the conditions relative to materials and labor did not im- prove, in fact the cost of labor and materials was higher than in pre- vious years and difficult to obtain, the work of the Department has been carried on successfully.
Surface Drainage
The narrow stone culvert on Swains Pond Avenue, near No. 314, was replaced with 24-inch drain pipe to relieve flooding of land above Swains Pond Avenue.
The wooden covered bridge on Whittier Street at Spot Pond Brook, being in a dangerous condition, was replaced with cement stone sidewalls and reinforced concrete top. The wooden cover was replaced by reinforced concrete and walls rebuilt on Spot Pond Brook at drive- way to Gibbon's stable.
Spot Pond Brook was widened, walled and reinforced concrete cover constructed south of Wyoming Avenue between No. 160 and No. 164. a distance of about a hundred feet.
Surface drains and catch basins have been constructed on Albion Street near Franklin Street and Day Street southerly. Grove Street, Burnett Street westerly, Geneva Road across private land to First Street. Cleveland Street, Sanford Street to Maple Street, and catch basins and man holes in various streets in other parts of the City.
Brooks
The open brooks have had careful attention and these should be widened and improved, as our street drainage systems empty into these open brooks and on their condition depends the success of the entire system.
Sidewalks
There have been 6,330 linear feet of new edgestones set and 2.461 linear feet of edgestones reset, in connection with which it was neces- sary to replace 462 square yards of gutters.
There have been 799 square yards of granolithic and 111 square yards of new tar concrete sidewalks constructed. Under repairs to present walks 1,701 square yards of three coat work, 750 square yards. of two coat work, and 2,148 square yards of top-dressing of tar con- crete sidewalks have been repaired.
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Street Trees
Eleven Norway maple trees were set out where requests were made, the applicant paying $2.50, which was about one-half the expense, and two set out to replace dead trees.
All trees set out in recent years by the Department are thriving, but they should have careful attention to protect them from insect pests, and be properly pruned.
The old trees should have all dead wood removed, the low hanging branches cut off and all necessary trimming done. To do this work it will be necessary to have larger appropriations for the care of trees.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Expended
Bookkeeper, part salary
$838.00
Asst. Supt., part salary
1,570.75
Use of automobile
515.00
Labor
76.25
3,000.00
HIGHWAY REPAIRING
Balance from 1919
$1,577.93
Appropriation
25,000.00
Street Railway Tax
556.92
$37,134.85
Expended
Labor as per pay rolls
$25.295.13
Stock and invoices
$26,351.33
Less sold and transferred to other Accounts
14.993.68
11,357.65
36,652.78
Balance
$482.07
SEARS AVENUE
Appropriation
$11,000.00
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Expended
Street work
$5,555.83
Changing manholes
39.09
Edgestones
3,084.19
Paving
797.03
9,476.14
Balance
$1,523.86
Not finished.
MARVIN ROAD
Balance 1919
$61.46
Expended, labor per pay roll.
61.46
GENEVA ROAD
Balance 1919
$67.86
Expended, labor and teams
14.00
Balance
$53.86
GARDEN STREET
Balance 1919 $490.43
Expended
Labor and teams
$92.01
Stock and rolling
39.00
Insurance and tools
12.06
143.07
Balance
$347.36
LINWOOD AVENUE
Appropriation
$6,500.00
Expended
Labor and teams
$3,195.42
Stock and rolling
3,296.69
6,492.11
Balance $7.89
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
SANFORD STREET
Appropriation
$1,200.00
Expended
Labor and teams
$755.39
Gravel
1 132.00
Insurance and tools
74.44
961.83
Balance
$238.17
Not finished.
EAST FOSTER STREET
Appropriation
$8,600.00 No expenditures.
WAVERLY PLACE
Appropriation
$11,000.00
No expenditures.
ESSEX AND MAIN STREETS Rounding Corner
Appropriation
$450.00
Expended
Edgestones
$95.70
Labor and teams
225.28
Cement
20.00
Concrete
84.00
Sand
3.10
428.08
Balance
$21.92
PORTER AND MAIN STREETS
Rounding Corner
Appropriation
$325.00
D
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Expended
Labor as per pay rolls
4.68
$320.32
Not finished.
MAIN STREET
Concrete Paving
Appropriation
$55,000.00
Expended
Simpson Brothers, contract
$51,937.15
C. L. Hoffman & Son, concrete repairs
1,238.53
$53,175.68
Balance
$1,824.32
Unexpended Balances
Argyle Street.
$47.64
Folsom Avenue
134.23
Garden Street
347.36
Hopkins Street
83.20
Lynde Avenue
218.48
Malvern Street
340.70
Myrtle Street
16.45
Pleasant Street
1,022.28
Swains Pond Avenue
.34
Warwick Road
272.75
MISCELLANEOUS
Ice for Drinking Fountain:
Appropriation
$100.00
Expended
D. Levy for ice. 33.60
Balance
$66.40
Removal of snow from Ell Pond:
Appropriation
74.91
Expended
61.38
Balance
13.53
74.91
REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
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Pensions:
Appropriation
$3.000.00
Expended
Pay rolls
1,727.98
Balance
$1,272.02
Vacations:
Appropriation
$4,000.00
Expended
Pay rolls
3,555.40
Balance $444.60
Removal of snow and sanding:
Appropriation
$10.000.00
Overdraft to 1921 account
4.50
$10.004.50
Expended
Labor as per pay rolls
$10.000.00
Advertising
4.50
$10.004.50
MEMORIAL BUILDING
Salaries and Wages
Appropriation
$3.000.00
Appropriation
72.00
$3.072.00
Less transfer
900.00
$2,172.00
Expended
Salaries and wages as per pay rolls.
$1.982.91
Liability insurance
29.70
2.012.61
Balance
$159.39
1
OTHER EXPENSES
Appropriation
$4,000.00
Transfer
900.00
Collection>
2.72
$4,902.72
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Expended
Electric power
$480.56
Electric lighting
488.51
Gas Lighting
54.15
Supplies and telephone
215.58
Heating
1,407.76
Repairing
749.48
Labor
880.94
Water Rates
49.09
$4.326.07
Balance
$576.65
Amount billed for use of Auditorium and G. A. R. Hall:
Auditorium
$5,524.24
G. A. R. Hall
1,249.67
$6.773.91
CITY HALL
Salaries and Wages
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Appropriation
72.00
Transfer
250.00
$2,322.00
Expended
Labor as per pay rolls
$2.271.76
Liability insurance
29.70
2,301.46
Balance
$20.54
OTHER EXPENSES
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Transfer
500.00
$3,500.00
Expended
Supplies
$398.50
Repairs
301.85
Coal and wood
1,191.25
Electric Lighting
1,214.85
Gas lighting
77.73
Plants for vase.
114.10
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Water rates
89.35
Labor
108.58
$3,496.24
Less collections
43.60
$3,452.64
Balance
' $47.36
Amount billed for use of Hall.
$1,125.00
OUTSIDE REPAIRS
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Expended
Mason work
$17.50
Lumber
14.38
Slate and labor
16.00
Labor on weather vane
8.29 ·
Labor, carpenter work
10.00
Tar concrete
222.16
Painting
705.94
Hardware
.59
994.86
$5.14
CROSSWALKS AND PAVING
Balance from 1919
$6,248.62
Expended
Labor and teams
$3,001.75
Insurance and tools
300.17
3,301.92
$2,946.70
INSURANCE
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Return premium
8.03
$2,008.03
Less transfer
400.00 .
$1,608.03
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Expended
Premiums on policies
1,547.87
Balance
$60.16
PLANTING NEW TREES
Appropriation
$500.00
Receipts
27.50
$627.50
Less transfer
396.00
$131.50
Expended
Labor and teams
$96.75
Trees
32.50
Advertising
2.25
$131.50
CARE OF TREES
Appropriation
$800.00
Transfers from other accounts
796.00
$1,596.00
Expended
Labor and teams
$1,126.58
Insurance and tools
109.61
1,236.19
Balance
$359.81
STREET LIGHTING
Appropriation
$22,000.00
Received from Park Dept
270.00
$22,270.00
Expended
Malden Electric Co., as per contract
21,654.42
Balance $615.58
REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
137
STREET SPRINKLING
Appropriation
$1,000.00 12,128.73 $13,128.73
Assessments
Expended
Labor and teams
$4.350.19
Tarvia
8,778.54
13.128.73
STREET CLEANING
Appropriation
.. $6,000.00
Transfer
410.39
$6.410.39
Expended
Labor and teams
$6,410.39
COLLECTION OF ASHES AND RUBBISH
Appropriation
$11,000.00
Expended
Labor and teams
$10,673.76
Insurance, tools and supplies
283.68
Labor, delivering ash cards
42.56
$11,000.00
STREET GUIDE BOARDS AND NUMBERS
Appropriation
$500.00
Expended
Labor
$62.32
Signs
233.00
Sign irons
10.40
Hardware
2.53
House numbers
7.60
$315.85
Balance $184.15
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CONTINUOUS WALKS
Balance 1919
$7,135.59
Appropriation
10,000.00
Transfer
2,038.22
Collections
9,900.82
$29,074.63
Expended
Pay rolls
$2,439.18
Invoices
10,868.30
Highway Division acct.
455.79
Repair Walks acct.
35.65
Reserve due on edgestones
106.62
$13,905.54
Balance
$15,169.09
INDIVIDUAL WALKS
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Balance 1919
1,246.15
Collections
1,862.55
$4,108.70
Less transfer to repair of walks
800.00
$3,308.70
Expended
Labør per pay rolls
$746.11
Invoices
1,488.81
Highway stock and teams
136.05
Reserve due on edgestones
38.78
2,409.75
Balance
$898.95
REPAIR PRESENT WALKS
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Transfer from Continuous Walks
35.65
Transfer from Individual Walks
800.00
$3.835.65
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Expended
Labor per pay rolls
$229.87
Highway Division, teams and stock
64.86
Paving brick Concrete work
224.25
3,278.41
3.797.39
Balance $38.26
CONTINUOUS WALKS-1920 One Half Cost Assessed to Abuttors
STREET
Side
From
To
Concrete Sq. Yds
Sodding Sq. Ft.
Straight
Curved
Drives
Walks
* Ashland St.
West . | Marvin Rd.
Southerly
214.00
16.90
2
* Ashland St.
'East. . Richardson
Rd.
. ¡ Southerly
166.00
5.40
* Ashland St.
JEast. . |No. 123
Northerly
200.40
8
4,485.43
Beech Ave.
Both . Lebanon St.
Meridian St.
775.40
94.20
20
First St. and Parker St. N & W
Geneva Road
West. | Upham St.
|Southerly 180 ft.
200.80
4
109.31
545.00
Holland Road
W & S Emerson St.
Parkway
559.30
124.70
6
405.97
2,339.00
*Lincoln St.
[Both. [Emerson St.
Sawyer Rd.
739.70
12.50
4
Main St.
IN & W
121.00
53.40
Main St.
[East. . Porter St.
IGreen St.
166.00
Rowe St.
West . Emerson St.
ISoutherly
128.00
2
* Sanford St.
South. Florence St.
Cleveland St.
114.00
* Sargent St.
|West. |No. 74
36.50
* Sargent St.
No. 78
86.30
*Sargent St.
No. 86
50.00
*Sargent St.
[No. 90
35.90
133.94
1,625.00
Upham St.
|North. East St.
Westerly
3,593.30
307.10
54
649.22
111.04
9,436.43
* Not Completed.
Edgestone Lin. Ft.
No. of Blocks
Granolithic Sq. Yds.
111.04
442.00
INDIVIDUAL WALKS-1920
Edgestone Lin. Ft.
Granolithic
No. of Blocks
Sq. Yds. Conerete
Sq. Ft. Sodding
Remarks
ABUTTORS
LOCATION
Straight
Curved
Walks
Drives
Borden. F. P.
Cedar Park
294.70
2
Budding, H. B ..
131 W. Wyoming Ave.
1
Benoit, A. W ..
36 Irving St.
2
3.33
Removed
Bruce, K. R .. Baker, C. E ...
Elm St.
Berquist, H. G ..
5 Perkins St.
2
6.77
Colby, .1. H ..
Cedar Park
156.30
2
Congregational Church
Foster St. .
27.00
Chesterton & Co ..
E. Emerson St.
Coleman, Bessie L.
|104 Sargent St. 52 Richardson Rd.
22
3.47
Everson, C. H ..
Green St.
2.20
Flanders. Susan H Fulton, E. C.
19 Nowell Rd.
Grimes. Geo. A.
Main St.
Goss, F. H .. ..
173 Lebanon & First Sts.
123.00
14.80
Hope, Clarence E.
249 W. Emerson St ..
222
4.60
Hall, E. A.
Myrtle St.
Hislop, E. H ..
962 Main St.
Holden, Dr. C. P.
Winthron St.
37.24
20.00
Jenney Mfg. Co.
Main St.
2
16.66
29.90
Jenney
Mfg. Co.
Corey St.
Loring W. H.
Ashland St.
Leighton, E. L.
477 Lebanon St.
60.57
Mosher, Ira
21 Holland Rd.
Merrill, N. P.
41 Holland Rd ..
Mckenzie, Daniel
|182 Linwood Ave.
McAdam, J. A ..
| Wyoming Ave.
O'Brien, W. P.
118 Linwood Ave.
Perkins, F. ...
Essex St.
3.40
Drive moved
McQueeney, Thomas
17 Beverly St.
4.74
Rowell, W. A ..
34 Lincoln St.
Rendle, W. S.
50 Porter St.
Salt, Geo. E ..
Stevens Rd.
2
Scarborough. R. R ..
115 Baxter St.
Sawyer, H. F ..
114 Warwick Rd.
Sutherland. E. and W. J. Davis.
1057-59 Main St.
Stuart. C. L.
127 Perkins St.
6.16
Concrete only
Wuest, F. H ..
153 Beech Ave.
Woodsum. C. H.
Ferdinand St.
2
6.30
2
5.60
Drive moved Change Drive Drop Stone Drop Stone
2221
3.86
Driveway Widened
28 Rowe St.
2.58
Drop Stone
Demain, W. A.
Change Drive Drop Stone
Drop Stone
Drop Stone
Meridian St.
655.00
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CITY OF MELROSE
SEWER DIVISION
Construction
Balance 1919
$6,051.44
Receipts
230.52
From other divisions, stock and labor
3,923.58
$10,205.54
Expended
Pay rolls
$2,971.17
Stock purchased
5,102.70
Highway stock and teams
1,416.14
Labor and stock transfer
117.10
9,607.11
Balance
$598.43
COST OF SYSTEM
Construction to Jan. 1, 1920
$506,549.96
Construction 1920
5,453.01
Total Cost
$512,002.97
Maintenance
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Collections
208.25
$2,208.25
Expended
Cleaning and repairing, labor and teams
$1,938.01
Stock and invoices
78.20
Liability insurance
192.04
$2,208.25
PRIVATE SEWERS
There have been thirty-five connections made with the main sewers the past year, making a total to January 1, 1921, of 3,409. (Cost of private sewers paid by applicant.)
Balance Jan. 1, 1920
$159.30
Receipts
3,394.81
Transfer
31.53
$3,585.64
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Expended
Pay rolls, labor and teams
$2,154.56
Sewer stock
817.88
Insurance and tools
231.92
Highway Teams
46.04
3,250.40
Balance
$335.24
SEWER CONSTRUCTION-1920
Pipe
STREET
LOCATION
Size Inches
Length Feet
Manholes
Argyle St.
Opp. No. 29 southerly
6
130
Eleventh St.
Upham St. southerly
6
325
2
Totals
455
2
SEWERS BUILT TO JANUARY 1, 1921
Number of feet of 6 in pipe
123,469
Number of feet of 8 inch pipe
54,895
Number of feet of 10 inch pipe.
17,529
Number of feet of 12 inch pipe
10,281
Number of feet of 15 inch pipe
3,839
Number of feet of 18 inch pipe
5,150
Number of feet of 20 inch pipe
2,788
Number of feet, of 24 inch pipe
1,213
Number of feet of 18 x 20 inch brick.
3,035
Number of feet of 20 inch brick
111
Number of feet of 24 inch brick.
28
Total
222,338
Note :- Total length of sewers 222,338 feet or 42.11 miles, 2.40 miles of which are owned and controlled by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but by Act of Legislature Melrose is permitted to use in the same manner as local sewers.
SURFACE DRAINAGE
Construction
Appropriation
$10,000.00
Balance 1919
4,213.79
Collections
340.66 $14,554.45
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CITY OF MELROSE
Expended
Construction
$14,201.42
Balance
$353.03.
MAINTENANCE
Appropriation
$5,000.00
Collections
3.33
$5,003.33
Expended
Cleaning and repairing catch basins
$3,523.73
Cleaning drains
1,121.01
Stock invoice
11.36
Insurance and tools
343.80
4,999.90
Balance
$3.43
CLEANING BROOKS
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Expended
Labor and teams
$1,929.53
Lumber
36.68
Sewer construction stock
32.78
$1,998.99
Balance
1.01
SURFACE DRAINAGE CONSTRUCTION
Pipe
STREET
LOCATION
Size Inches
Length Feet
Manholes
Catch Basins
Albion Street
Near Day St.
12
56
1
Albion Street
At Franklin St.
24
76
1
Baxter Street
Beech Avenue
For conductors
8 × 6
162
Cleveland Street
Sanford St. to Maple St ..
12
556
2
3
Essex Street
On old drain
Franklin Street
Opp. Pratt St.
Geneva Road
Across private land
15
334
2
2
Grove Street
Burnett St. to Cumner Ave. At curve
12
400
1
2
Holland Road
Laurel Street
At Common
Rowe Street
Opp. No. 53
Sears Avenue
Short Street
At Main St ..
8 x 5.50
100
Spot Pond Brook
Culvert off Wyoming Ave.
24
44
1
1
Upham Street
[On old drain.
8 x 4.50
43
Whittier Street
Culvert
Total
1771
9
20
1
3
City Hall Yard.
1
1
1
1
3
1
Swains Pond Avenue
Culvert at low point ..
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CITY OF MELROSE
SUMMARY OF IMPROVED SURFACE DRAINAGE CONSTRUCTED TO JANUARY 1, 1921
8 inch Akron pipe. 808 lin. ft.
10 inch Akron pipe
4,735 lin. ft.
12 inch Akron pipe. 29,922 lin. ft.
15 inch Akron pipe .
16,304 lin. ft. 284 lin. ft.
16 inch Akron pipe
18 inch Akron pipe
5,929 lin. ft.
20 inch Akron pipe
5,322 lin. ft.
20 inch iron pipe.
120 lin. ft.
24 inch Akron pipe.
2,252 lin. ft.
Brick conduit
659 lin. ft.
Concrete conduit
9,037 lin. ft.
Number of manholes
349
Number of concrete culverts
7
Number of catch basins
624
Cost of system to January 1, 1920 $232,082.44
Construction 1920
14,201.42
Cost of system to January 1, 1921. $246,283.86
Total length of improved surface drains ... 13.35 miles
ENGINEERING DIVISION
Salaries and Wages
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Less transfers
550.00
$5,450.00
Expended
Salaries as per pay rolls 1
$5,360.25
Liability insurance
33.56
5,393.81
Balance
$56.19
Other Expenses
Appropriation
$800.00
Transfer from salaries and wages.
50.00
$850.00
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Expended
Supplies
$389.84
Automobile supplies and repairs.
447.81
Carfares
8.10
$845.75
Balance
$4.25
SYNOPSIS OF WORK DONE
Highway Division
Street lines and grades given for construction of new streets, in- eluding gutters, crossings, guard rails. etc., and record plans made of same.
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