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124.43
Stone crusher and fittings
31.33
Repairs of steam road roller
400.28
Holland street ledge
724.67
Edgestone and paving stock .
170.04
Crushed stone (to which amount is
charged repairs at crusher)
1,055.96
Total
$4,629.86
CREDIT.
Stone and gravel
$1,151.05
Sand
182.75
City teams .
795.24
2,129.04
Net deficit
$2,500.82
The only charge for the use of the steam road roller working on the streets during the year is for the time of the engineer, which is at the rate of twenty dollars per week.
The price charged for placing crushed stone on the streets during the year has been at the rate of seventy-five cents for each single horse load; this price, however, does not include the team- ing.
Gravel has been charged at the rate of twenty-five cents per single horse load, and sand at the rate of fifty cents per sin- gle load, exclusive of carting.
Number of loads of stone for crusher from Holland
street ledge 2,832
Number of loads of stone crushed .
13,958
496
ANNUAL REPORTS
The charges to the city teams account are as follows :-- Horses (depreciation)
$815.00
Carts and implements used with horses (deprecia- tion)
493.78
Repairs of same
778.78
Harnesses and horse clothing (de- preciation)
14.24
Repairs of same
377.79
Stable utensils and property
84.26
Stable expenses and repairs
3,356.83
Grain and feed
2,103.93
Hay and straw
2,591.07
Horse shoeing
685.22
Horse medicine and doctoring
249.86
$11,550.76
The above statement does not include the board or use of horse used by the Superintendent of Streets, the cost of which may be found in the foregoing statement of expenditures. Each horse has been credited for each day he has worked throughout the year, at $1.40 per day, the same as in former years.
SIDEWALKS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$10,000.00
Less transfer to Highways Ac- count
349.78
Total credit
·
$9,650.22
Expenditures :- DEBIT.
For advertising sidewalk hearing (sidewalk not constructed) ·
$ 9.50
For thirty-two sidewalks, as per Table E, at the end of this report
19,281.51
$19,291.01
9,640.79
Less assessments and receipts Cost to city
$9,650.22
497
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
EDGESTONES AND PAVING STOCK.
Lineal feet of edgestones set (including 2,500 feet reset), 25,971.1; square yards of brick paving laid (including 1,000 yards relaid), 7,956.7; square yards of stone paving laid (including 1,000 yards relaid), 7,670.
PAVING OF MEDFORD STREET. .
(From Somerville Avenue to the Cambridge Line.)
CREDIT.
Balance of appropriation brought forward from 1895 $13,249.41
Receipts :-
From City of Cambridge, lower- ing manholes, and for labor and paving blocks 242.95
$13,492.36
Less amount transferred to pav- ing Washington street (from
Medford street to Joy street)
· 5,800.00
Total credit
$7,692.36
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
To W. H. Gore & Co., paving
$957.99
H. Gore & Co., paving
3,623.52
H. Gore & Co., paving (ex- tra)
123.49
Paving blocks
1,940.06
Flagging
92.64
Labor
.
82.75
$6,820.45
Balance unexpended .
$871.91
498
ANNUAL REPORTS.
PAVING OF WASHINGTON STREET. (From Tufts street to Joy street.)
CREDIT.
Appropriation brought forward from 1895
$3,800.00
Receipt :-
Cash received from West End
Railway Co., proportional
part of paving, as per agree- ment 1,000.00
$4,800.00
Less transfer to City Hall improve-
ment account
1,340.21
$3,459.79
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
William H. Gore & Co., paving .
$1,398.03
William H. Gore & Co., paving, extra
28.88
Paving blocks
1,536,20
Flagging
69.88
Concreting
384.90
Pipe and labor
74.63
Cement
9.30
$3,501.82
Amount overdrawn
$42.03
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
499
PAVING OF WASHINGTON STREET. (From Joy street to Medford street.) CREDIT. Appropriation (transfer paving of
Medford street) $5,800.00
Less amount transferred to City Hall improvement account 1,059.25
Total credit
$4,740.75
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
H. Gore & Co., paving
$2,124.93
Paving blocks
2,512.56
Granite flagging
29.76
Labor
31.50
4,698.75
Balance unexpended .
$42.00
CITY STABLE. (Sheds.)
CREDIT.
Appropriation . $2,000.00
Less transfer to Highways ac-
count
250.00
Net credit
$1,750.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For carpentering, lumber and la-
bor
$1,080.60
Mason work .
28.60
Painting
55.52
Hardware
26.28
1,191.00
Balance unexpended .
$559.00
.
.
500
ANNUAL REPORTS.
HIGHWAYS. Steam Road Roller No. 2 Account.
CREDIT.
Appropriation .
DEBIT. $3,500.00
Expenditures :-
Harrisburg steam road roller .
$3,500.00
During the year ten new streets, eighteen crosswalks and ten driveways have been constructed, fifty-seven street signs erected, and one hundred and twenty-five trees set out. Sixteen thousand feet of old streets have been macadamized and rolled by the steam road roller, and twenty thousand eight hundred loads of material, consisting of hard-pan, ashes, scrapings, gravel, etc., have been utilized in filling and grading. Two thousand loads of material from the locations of the West End Street Railway Company have been used for filling Mystic avenue and War- wick and Trull streets, at no expense to the city except the teaming. There are in the city at the present time sixteen miles of accepted street which have received no attention, except to keep them in a safe and passable condition for public travel. There are thirty-six horses in use by the department. Eleven horses have been purchased during the year and eight have died.
TABLES.
Tables are furnished herewith of streets accepted, streets constructed and improved, driveways and sidewalks constructed, and crossings laid.
WILLIAM H. BERRY, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.
501
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
TABLE A. STREETS ACCEPTED.
NAME.
FROM
To
Length in Feet
Avon
School
Central
1,360
Banks
Elm
Summer
639
Benton avenue
Highland avenue .
Hudson
286
Burnside avenue
Elm
Summer
720
Cambria
Central .
Benton avenue
488
Cameron avenue
Holland
Cambridge line
1,000
Electric avenue
Curtis
Packard avenue
681
Houghton
Oak
.
Springfield .
204
Kidder avenue
Elm
Liberty avenue
625
Lee
Medford
Richdale avenue .
385
Lowell
Higland avenue
Albion
390
Westminister
Broadway
Electric avenue
376
Wigglesworth
Bonair
Pearl
740
Total length in feet
.
7,894
TABLE B. STREETS CONSTRUCTED.
Name of Street.
FROM
To
Length in Feet.
Burnside avenue
Elm
Summer
720
Fanning avenue
Highland avenue .
Lexington avenue
376
Hall avenue
Elm
Liberty avenue
926
Hancock
Elm
Summei
781
Kenwood
Elm
Billingham .
322
Kidder avenue
Elm
Willow avenue
1,280
Rossmore
Somerville avenue
Washington
525
Summit
Elm
Billingham
262
Trull
Medford
Vernon
1,050
Warwick
.
Cedar
Warwick avenue .
665
Total length in feet .
·
6,907
.
.
502
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE C. STREETS IMPROVED.
STREET.
FROM
To
IMPROVEMENT.
FEET.
Beacon
Railroad B'ge
Kent .
Macadamized
2,280
Beacon
Cambridge line .
Calvin
Macadamized
1,330
Cedar
Railroad B'ge
.
Highland ave
Macadamized
1,930
Cross
Broadway ·
Medford .
Macadamized
2,680
Derby
Temple . .
Grant
Gravelled
800
Elm
Morrison
.
Nathan Tufts Park
Macadamized
1,300
Frost ave.
Somerville ave
Tube works
Macadamized
250
Highland ave., (N. E. side)
Central
Grove
Macadamized
5,270
Mystic ave. ,
Charlestown line
Austin
Macadamized
1,170
Mystic ave. .
Medford line . .
Temple
Macadamized
2,730
Pearl
Mt. Vernon ·
Franklin
Macadamized
950
Perkins
Boston line
Franklin
Macadamized
1,320
Summer
Willow ave.
Cutter square .
Macadamized
870
Willow ave. .
Broadway .
Railroad cross'g
Macadamized
1,910
Total length in feet
24,790
TABLE D. DRIVEWAYS CONSTRUCTED AT EXPENSE OF ABUTTERS.
FOR.
LOCATION.
Martin J. Caples
42 Craigie street.
Albert M. Davis
Glen street.
T. H. Edgerly.
220 Medford street.
W. S. Glidden
A. E. and N. J. Giroux .
Sycamore street. 65 Pearl street. Preston street.
J. L. Gilman
C. A. Lowell .
31 Gilman street.
Howard Lowell
Gilman street.
J. P. Squire & Co. .
Medford street.
Alden E. Viles
. 20 Summer street.
503
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
TABLE E. SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED WHERE THE EDGESTONES AND BRICKS WERE FURNISHED OR PAID FOR BY THE ABUTTERS.
FOR
STREET.
FEET OF EDGE- STONES.
YARDS OF BRICKS.
J. F. Berry
Central .
87.5
Blaney and Robinson
Medford
136.1
136.9
George A. Bruce
Oxford .
50
105.1
Henry B. Champion
Highland ave.
40
29.4
Fred W. Coles
Auburn ave.
48
Dr. A. H. Carvill
Highland ave .
160.6
Lucretia A. Carr
Chandler
37.6
Francis H. Connor
92 Flint
28
Thomas A. Dewire . Robert Duddy
Bond
34.4
Abram P. Downs
Bond
82.1
62
Walter A. Eames
64 Chandler
33.3
Josiah C. Fluker
Highland ave.
42
30.3
Willard L. Glidden .
Highland ave.
67.6
39.9
William H Hodgkins
School Lot .
Holland
576.2
C. W. Lowell .
Kidder ave.
118.5
S. & H. Maloon
Highland ave.
40
29.4
J. F. Merry
Oxford
37.7
George O. Maynard
Oxford
131
J. L. Nelson
Highland ave.
95.3
71.9
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Central .
189.8
123.5
James H. Piper
Highland ave.
43.4
31.7
William B. Pazarina
54 Chandler
38.8
Wilson C. Rich
Auburn ave.
62.3
36.4
James W. Rich
Belmont
103.9
66.3
George O. Servis
Oxford
33.3
John J. Stockdon
Auburn ave
53.6
29.7
James H. Steele
Auburn ave.
65.5
35.5
Henry C. Smalley
Bond
43.3
34
J. P. Snow .
58 Chandler
33.3
Sophronia M. Tower Francis W. Hunt and Dudley F. Hunt
Highland ave.
66
38.5
Eliza A. Trickey
Auburn ave.
53.5
35.1
James Tucker
Auburn ave.
88.9
R. K. Wakefield .
Highland ave.
42
30.4
John E. Woodside
Belmont
45
30.5
Rufus R. Wade .
44 Chandler
46.8
William N. Young
Pinckney
156.3
2,550.8
1,585.3
Herman Barker
Bond and Heath .
Beacon
128
TABLE F.
SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED WHERE THE MATERIALS AND LABOR WERE FURNISHED BY THE CITY AND ONE-HALF THE COST WAS ASSESSED UPON THE ABUTTING ESTATES.
STREET,
SIDE.
FROM
To
FEET OF EDGESTONES.
YARDS OF BRICKS,
COST.
Adams
Easterly
Broadway
Medford
576.2
$540.48
Bartlett
Westerly
Vernon
Medford
866.1
272
514.08
Belmont
Easterly
Summer
Nor'ly estate of J. K. James
1,185.5
779.61
Beacon
Northerly
Miller
Fitchburg R. R. Bridge
586.5
398.06
Beacon
Northerly
Washington
Vine
678.4
546.62
Broadway
Northeasterly
Estate No. 257
Estate No. 303
237.6
891.2
1,059.52
Broadway
Southwesterly
Sycamore
432.1
496.25
Cherry
Easterly
Sartwell ave
Summer
95.2
285.6
333.29
Central
Westerly
Gibbens
Estate John Haigh
836
618.76
Derby
Northerly
Temple
Nathan Tufts Park
1,066.7
798.14
Elm
Easterly
Morrison
896.5
701.14
Elm
Northerly
Cherry
Willow ave
628.6
446.57
Franklin
Easterly
Franklin ave.
Washington
495 4
324.14
Highland ave.
Northerly
Grove
West
4,350.7
525.7
578.09
Highland ave.
Southerly
Medford
Walnut
872.20
Hudson
Southerly
Lowell
Cedar
Kenwood
Both
Elm
Billingham
Madison
Southerly
School
Sycamore
904.8
·
572.6
540.95
Medford
Southwesterly
Central
Bartlett
259.1
189.4
311.20
Mossland
Easterly
Somerville ave.
Orchard
Southerly
Day
Chester
492.3
·
393.59
Pearl
Northeasterly
Walnut
Litchfield estate
1,220.8
1,154.35
Pearl
Northeasterly
Cross
Walnut
504
ANNUAL REPORTS.
2,737.59
Highland ave,
Northerly
West
Central
1,400.8
577.50
673.5
641.86
100 feet from Elm
241.6
269.00
Grant
Adams
589.43
381
TABLE F-Continued.
STREET.
SIDE.
FROM
To
FEET OF EDGESTONES.
YARDS OF BRICKS.
COST.
Rossmore
Both
Somerville ave. Central
Washington
1,053.4
$659 46
Robinson School
Northwesterly Westerly
Highland ave. Marshall
Madison School
452.3
353.07
Stickney ave.
Southerly
Cherry
Ashland
.
509.7
446.36
Both
Elm
Billingham
518.5
361.89
St. James ave. Washington
Westerly
Elm
Summer
Southerly
Sanborn field.
Y. M. C. A. Grounds
545.3
387.01
20,008.5
5,399.4
$19,281.51
·
·
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·
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·
·
.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
505
·
Northerly
Bartlett
636.6
461.74
258
189.36
Summer Summit
192.2
200.20
506
ANNUAL REPORTS.
STREET CROSSINGS CONSTRUCTED.
Beacon street, across end of Buckingham street.
Broadway, northeasterly side, across Cross street. Broadway, across end of Grant street.
Broadway, from northeasterly side, near northwesterly side of Grant street, to street railway.
Broadway, across same, near northwesterly side of Walnut street.
Central street, northwesterly side, across end of Cleveland street.
Elm street, across same, in line with sidewalk on southeast- erly side of Davenport street.
Elm street, across same, in front of Post Office, near south- westerly side of Davis square.
Highland avenue, across same, in line with sidewalk on northwesterly side of Cedar street.
Highland avenue, across same, in line with sidewalk on southeasterly side of Cherry street.
Highland avenue, across same, in front of Highland Con- gregational Church.
Highland avenue, across same, near northwesterly side of Trull lane.
Holland street, across same, in front of William H. Hodg- kins school.
Laurel street, northwesterly side, across end of Laurel aventie.
Medford street, across same, in line with sidewalk on north- easterly side of Somerville avenue.
Medford street, across same, at northwesterly side of Trull street.
Mystic avenue, across same, near southeasterly side of North Union street.
507
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
School street, northwesterly side, across end of Berkeley street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with sidewalk on southeasterly side of Medford street.
Walnut street, northwesterly side, across end of Grand View avenue.
Washington street, northerly side, across end of Shawmut street.
Washington street, northerly side, across end of Tufts street.
Washington street, northerly side, across end of Washing- ton avenue.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 24, 1897.
Referred to the Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Febuary 24, 1897.
Referred to the Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports, in concurrence.
CHARLES S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON SEWERS, January 1, 1897.
TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF SOMERVILLE :-
The committee on Sewers presents the following report for the year ending December 31, 1896 :-
MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$7,000.00
Transfer from Reduction of Funded Debt account
1,500.00
Receipts and Credits :-
For fees for entering estates into
sewers
·
$ 74.00
Reconstructing Oak street
sewer 71.01
Repairing sewer, Dresden
Circle 4.75
Changing line of manholes (W. E. St. Ry. Co.) . ·
148.89
Rebuilding catch-basin (do.)
41.86
Dividend on private sewer
built for Timothy Tufts in 1888 .
7.80
Value of tools and property on hand January 1, 1896 ·
786.80
63.46
Value of materials on hand January 1, 1896 · Total credit
348.31
$9,698.57
512
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $9,698.57
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For maintenance of sewers, in- cluding repairs, cleaning, etc., of sewers and man- holes
$2,190.41
Maintenance of catch-basins
2,841.44
Inspection of house drains . 294.10
Franklin O. Reed, damage to land
2,212.50
Franklin O. Reed, rent of water course
225.00
Books, stationery and print- ing
17.00
Arranging tools and property
16.62
Repairs of tools and property
24.59
Unpaid bills of 1895
·
165.37
Sundry expenses .
23.12
Depreciation in value of tools and property .25
Value of materials on hand Decem- ber 31, 1896 .
54.22
Value of tools and property on hand
December 31, 1896, (in-
cluding purchases during the year, $212.36)
973.05
Total debit
$9,037.67
Balance unexpended .
$660.90
513
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Unexpended balance of 1895
$41,791.10
Amount transferred . 50,000.00
Receipts and credits :-
For catch-basin curbs in side- walks, received credit from Sidewalks and Highways accounts $ 56.95
Fee for drainage of estate into Broadway sewer 5.85
Fee for drainage of estate into Broadway sewer, (Cedar street, easterly) 13.67
Fee for drainage of estate into Russell street sewer . 61.41
Construction of sewer in Cot- tage Circle 24.92
Construction of private drain
80.07
Extra work on Tannery
Brook Drain, (W. E. St. Ry. Co.) .
137.50
380.37
Value of materials on hand January 1, 1896
1,468.08
Unpaid bills of 1896
·
2,071.99
Total credit
$95,711.54
DEBIT.
Expenditures :- ·
For thirty-one sewers con- structed and partially con-
structed during the year, (less $72.62 paid in 1895) .
$41,956.56
Less assessments
22,108.31
Amounts carried forward
$19,848.25
$95,711.54
514
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward ·
$19,848.25 $95,711.54
Abatements of sewer assess-
ments
367.34
For . twenty-five catch-basins
(average cost $67.45) .
1,686.19
Metropolitan sewer connec- tion, Mystic avenue at Win- throp avenue . 4,548.50
Metropolitan sewer connec- tion, Waverly street . ·
2,411.66
Metropolitan sewer connec- tions, Somerville avenue at Poplar street, (including packing houses connection)
6,451.85
Packing house connections with city sewers and Metro- politan sewer,-
John P. Squire & Co. . 590.59 North Packing and Pro- vision Co. 912.30
New England Dressed Meat & Wool Co.
1,098.64
Outlet for sewers, draining through the City of Med- ford ·
1,124.37
Soundings for packing house outlet for salt water 363.89
Construction of storm drain in the Tannery Brook Val- ley
24,336.05
Construction of surface water drain in private lands, Princeton, Alpine and Al- bion streets, from the B. & L. R. R. to Hudson street Amounts carried forward
1,390.86
$65,130.49
$95,711.54
515
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
Amounts brought forward $65,130.49 $95,711.54
Construction of sewer in Cot- tage Circle for T. C. Con- nor 24.92
Maurice Buttimer, payment on account of extension of sewer 93.87
Damages to land of Joseph S. Stearns, by reason of sewer and surface water drain
620.00
Sundry expenses
86.25
Books, stationery and print- ing ·
26.00
Unpaid bills of 1895 ·
$350.36
Repairs of tools and property
7.70
Tools and property .
392.10
Increase and depreciation of tools, property and mate- rials 552.99
Value of materials on hand Decem-
ber 31, 1896
617.03
Total debit
67,901.71
Balance unexpended
$27,809.83
Labor and materials have also been furnished, and credit has been received for the same, as follows :-
School-house, Ward One account, labor and in- spection on excavation for foundation $20.00
Sewers, Maintenance account, brick, sand and ce- ment 28.60
Total
$48.60
A complete and extensive statement of the work of this de- partment during the past year will be found in the report of the City Engineer.
For the Committee on Sewers, MELVILLE D. JONES, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 24, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, February 24, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports, in concurrence.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
OFFICE OF CITY ENGINEER, CITY HALL, January 25, 1897.
To His Honor the Mayor, and the City Council of the City of Somerville :-
Gentlemen,-Herewith I respectfully submit a report of the work done and expenses incurred, for the year ending December 31, 1896, in the City Engineer's Department; including the superintendence of Sewers and Public Parks.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
During the past year Mr. George A. Kimball has been em- ployed as consulting engineer on various works of improvement in the city; his advice being especially valuable in the re-design- ing of the city's old sewerage system.
Twenty-one assistants have been employed in the Engineer- ing Department, eight permanently and the others as additional work required.
The cost of maintaining the department has been as fol- lows :-
520
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Appropriation
$10,000.00
Salary of city engineer and consult-
ing engineer (including main- tenance of team) $3,307.37
Salaries of assistants
5,307.81
Furniture
85.00
One new engineer's level
100.00
Repairs of instruments .
43.02
Tapes, plumbs, level rods and gen- eral supplies .
150.73
Draughting instruments, materials and stationery ·
219.31
Line and grade stakes and spikes .
32.68
Car fares, expressing and incidental expenses
174.15
Total expenditure
$9,420.07
Unexpended balance
$579.93
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES, ASSISTANTS' SALARIES.
Sewers-comprising surveys, profiles, lines, grades, titles, plans and assessments $3,096.65
Highways-comprising plans, profiles, titles, esti- mates, lines and grades ·
427.09
Edgestone-comprising profiles, lines, grades, measurements, titles, costs and assessments . 373.82 Water Works-comprising lines, locations of mains and services ·
122.47
Public Grounds-comprising surveys, plans, pro- files, grades and estimates . 40.98
Public Buildings-comprising surveys, lines, grades and estimates . 105.67
Street Numbering-comprising locations of build- ings, plans and affixing street numbers on houses
132.24
Amount carried forward,
$4,298.92
521
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
Amount brought forward $4,298.92 West End Street Railway Co .- comprising grades, plans and profiles 60.06
Middlesex Registry-comprising copying of plans and abstracts from deeds filed 61.31
Miscellaneous Work - comprising indexing, records of all locations, miscellaneous lines, grades, plans and estimates ·
589.38
City Survey
121.38
City Map
176.76
Total
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$5,307.81
.
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SEWERS.
TANNERY BROOK DRAINAGE SYSTEM.
The past year a storm relief drain, trunk sewers and laterals have been constructed in the Tannery Brook Valley, West Som- erville.
This work has been contemplated for a number of years, but not until recently have all obstacles been overcome sufficiently to enable the work of construction to proceed.
An act allowing the City of Somerville to drain a portion of her territory in West Somerville through the City of Cam- bridge was passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, April 4, 1896, and satisfactory agreements between the two cities were concluded for the construction and maintenance of that portion of the structure to be built within the limits of the City of Cam- bridge.
Two objects were aimed at in the designing of this system :- One to provide for the storm water drainage and sewerage of the district through which the line of work is carried, lying partly in Somerville and partly in Cambridge, embracing a total area of about 350 acres,
522
ANNUAL REPORTS.
The other to provide a means of relieving the West Somer- ville district of the existing sewerage system, of the excess of rainfall now discharged into it.
Under former conditions, the sewers in the vicinity of Davis Square were overcharged whenever heavy rains prevailed, and complaints of flooded cellars had long been a matter of regular occurrence.
Apart from these merely local conditions, affecting the upper end of our sewer system, it was likewise desirable to relieve also the lower sections of the main sewerage system of the city by some convenient and practical diversion of the storm water flow, in preference to any expensive remodelling and reconstructing of the present sewers; with these conditions in view the Tannery Brook system was designed.
The natural drainage outlet of the district is the Tannery Brook, discharging into Alewife Brook at a point about nineteen hundred feet northwest of the Cambridge-Somerville line.
The northwesterly side of Clarendon Avenue, in Cambridge, was selected on this stream as the point of discharge for the pro- posed storm drainage conduit, and this was the reason for ob- taining a special act of the Legislature authorizing the work as mentioned previously.
The dimensions of the storm water drain were based on the heaviest rainfall, assumed to fall upon the total area of acres . included in the natural drainage district, and from the existing sewers from which the storm water was to be diverted.
As the drain would pass, for a considerable portion of its length, through the low lying land, not affording a sufficient depth of cover for an ordinary circular structure of the requisite capacity, a wide and shallow construction was adopted with a curved bottom and vertical sides, supporting steel I beams, be .. tween which short spans of brick work are built, forming the cover or roof of the structure; over the whole of this is a layer of concrete, joining the side walls which are also of concrete, with the exception of three hundred and sixty-five feet in length at the outlet which are constructed of brick and rubble stone masonry.
523
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
The storm drain at its outlet is seven feet two inches wide and four feet high, inside; the width is gradually reduced until at Davis Square it is four feet four inches, the height being four feet throughout.
Special connections have been left at Cameron Avenue and Gorham Street for the purpose of diverting storm water from the Holland Street sewer in the future; and an overflow connection between the present main sewer in Davis Square and this new storm conduit has been constructed.
Where the route of the storm drain passes Dover and Day Streets, in Davis Square, the old sewers in these streets are car- ried over the roof of the drain through twenty-inch cast-iron pipes.
Much attention has been devoted to the inside lining of the drain, which is of Portland cement plaster, one inch in thickness on the bottom and one half inch on the side walls, worked to a very smooth surface so as to facilitate the flow and prevent the formation of deposits.
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