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46.5
Walter E. Stetson .
Browning road
50.2
33.9
W. H. Swain
Bradley street
34.5
George W. Taylor
Chester street
101.1
57.7
Third Universalist Parish
Morrison street
22.2
Warren C. Trask .
13 Tower street
42.2
117.8
James Wood
Tower street .
40.2
William H. Wood
Tower street .
40.2
William H. Wood & Co.
Tower street
106
Fire Department
Grove street .
105.1
15.6
Sacramento-street Subway Approaches
109
15.6
Public Property
Sanford Hanscom School Lot
224.7
27.7
Public Grounds
City Hall Annex, Highland avenue
3,223.6
1,362.4
619
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
J. W. Scott
80 Highland avenue
.
.
.
.
·
.
George W. W. Whiting
Broadway and Sargent avenue
40.2
Fire Department
Cross street
138
.
Kent-street Subway Approaches
.
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.
Aldrich
Easterly
Gilman street
Flint street
·
.. .
97.0
$90.72
Arthur
Westerly
Broadway
Bonair street
... .
254.2
220.33
Arthur
Easterly
Broadway
Bonair street
310.4
247.28
Avon
Both
School street
Central street
2,616.2
....
1,836.40
Bartlett
Easterly
Medford street
Vernon street
731.6
582.89
Bradley
Southerly
Pearl street
Walter street
766.1
. . .
496.06
Bradley
Northwesterly
Pearl street
North westerly boundary line of estate of Margaret Driscoll
96.2
....
73.05
Bradley
Northwesterly South westerly
in front of estate
of Frank W. Titcomb
89.7
....
72.12
Broadway
Adams street
Bartlett street
195.4
· · · ·
553.58
Burnside ave.
Westerly Both
Central street
Benton avenue
Central
Westerly
Atherton street
Cypress street
107.4
103.26
Central
Westerly
Atherton street
Estate of John C. Nichols
616.6
503.35
Chandler
Easterly
Chapel street
Broadway
201.8
233.92
Cherry
Easterly
Elm street
Sartwell avenue
575.3
413.7
752.20
Crocker
Both
Highland avenue
Crown street
1,082.8
... .
690.50
Dell
Both
Tufts street
Glen street
926.4
.. . .
666.37
Elm
Northeasterly
Willow avenue
Cutter square
997.5
423.05
Elm
Southeasterly
Nathan Tufts park
Kidder avenue
...
824.7
881.02
Elm
Southeasterly Both
Kidder avenue Elm street
Liberty avenue
1,555.6
1,198.99
Francesca ave.
Flint
South westerly
Cross street
Aldrich street
Hancock
Elm street
Summer street
787.8
·
202.98
Harrison
Kent street
Mondamin court
280.2
..
620
ANNUAL REPORTS.
·
...
634.30
Cambria
Elm street
Summer street
729.7
....
106.4
105.77
Cherry
North westerly
Summer street
Highland avenue
722.82
286 9
Morrison street
411.7
362.36
620.81
Northwesterly Westerly
.
129.65
1,009.8
TABLE F. - Continued.
STREET.
SIDE.
FROM
To
FEET OF EDGESTONES.
YARDS OF BRICKS.
COST.
Hudson
Northeasterly Southerly
Newton street
Sanborn Field
368.9
203.8
445.62
Kidder ave.
South westerly Both
School street
Granite street
810.3
....
585.09
Lee
Both
Medford street
Richdale avenue
798.0
·
564.8
473.92
Madison
Northeasterly
School street Washington street
Somerville avenue
905.2
....
642.21
Morrison
Northeasterly
Elm street
Rear of lot of Universalist Church
....
56.5
70.45
Newbury
Northwesterly
Holland street
South westerly boundary line of estate No. 73
1,130.2
.
·
594
492.08
Richdale ave.
Southerly
School street
Sycamore street
....
355 1
311.27
Sargent ave.
Northwesterly
Broadway
Angle street
680.5
493.8
483.78
Summer
South westerly Northeasterly
School street
in front of estate of West End St. Railway Co.
27.0
119.0
191.42
Summer
Northeasterly
corner of Summer and Cherry streets
49.4
....
38.04
Temple
Southeasterly
Sidney street
Tennyson
Both
Forster street
Medford street
982.4
....
70.19
Tower
Westerly
Highland avenue
South westerly
90.2
410.3
384.93
Walnut
Westerly
Summit avenue
Giles park
485.2
341.01
Wheatland
Broadway
Jaques street
468.5
370.0
638.93
Wheeler
Southeasterly Both
Pinckney street
Mt. Vernon street
22,061.5
6,181.5
$21,621.04
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
Lowell street
Cedar street
1,437.8
$933.17
Joseph
Elm street
Estate of Grace F. Lowell
535.3
....
524.50
Knapp
Sycamore street
Medford
Westerly
Columbus avenue
Union square
Stone ave.
Westerly
School street
Preston street
....
413.69
Summer
in front of estate of F. A. P. Fiske Derby street
235.7
194.98
785.22
779.44
417.32
621
622
ANNUAL REPORTS.
STREET CROSSINGS CONSTRUCTED.
Beacon street, across same, in line with westerly sidewalk of Kent street.
Beacon street, across same, in line with westerly sidewalk of Miller street.
Beacon street, across same, in line with westerly sidewalk of Park street.
Broadway, across end of Edmands street.
Broadway, across same, near to and east of Main street.
Broadway, across end of Melvin street.
Broadway, across end of Montgomery avenue.
Central street, across end of Cambria street.
Central street, across end of Gibbens street.
Central street, across end of Hudson street.
Cross street, across same, in front of Edgerly schoolhouse.
Elm street, across end of Kenwood street.
Medford street, across end of Lee street.
Mt. Vernon street, across end of Wheeler street.
Pinckney street, across end of Wheeler street.
Somerville avenue, across end of Beech street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with westerly side- walk of Beech street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with westerly side- walk of Bleachery court.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with easterly sidewalk of Central street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with westerly side- walk of Garden court.
Somerville avenue, across end of Kent street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with easterly sidewalk of Kent street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with westerly side- walk of Kent street.
623
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
Somerville avenue, across end of Park street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with westerly sidewalk of Park street.
Somerville avenue, across same, in line with westerly side- walk of Spring street.
Summer street, southerly side, across Cherry street.
Walnut street, across end of Wellington avenue.
Webster street, across same, in front of Sanford Hanscom schoolhouse.
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REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 23, 1898.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, February 23, 1898.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports in concurrence.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON SEWERS, January 1, 1898.
TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF SOMERVILLE : -
The Committee on Sewers presents the following report for the year ending December 31, 1897 :-
MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$6,000 00
Transfer from interest account
2,900 00
Receipts and credits :-
Sale of old hose
$24 00
Reconstructing sewer in Oak street in 1896 .
23 19
Changing line and grade and
repairing manholes in
1896 and 1897, West End Street Railway Co. . .
152 25
Changes in sewers, house
drains, etc., on account of Metropolitan water mains 101 70
Lumber and sand paid for in previous years . 93 00
Sewers, Construction, drain pipe . 4 50
398 64
Value of tools and property on hand January 1, 1897
973 05
Value of materials on hand January 1, 1897 54 22
· Total credit $10,325 91
Amount carried forward .
$10,325 91
628
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $10,325 91
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For maintenance of sewers, in-
cluding repairing and cleaning sewers and manholes . $3,966 67 ·
Maintenance of catch-
basins · . ·
2,980 12
Inspection of house
drains
515 29
Franklin O. Reed, rent
of water course across marsh to Mystic river (15 months) 375 00
Changing line and grade and repairing catch- basins
104 68
Changing line and grade of manholes 244 59
Changing house drains .
59 38
Cleaning cellars flooded by overcharged sewers .
81 775
Repairing and enlarging siphon under Boston & Maine railroad at city stables
534 26
Repairing Somerville ave- nue sewer, near Cam- bridge line ·
193 32
Books, stationery, and printing
49 50
Repairs of tools and prop- erty ·
49 38
Sundry expenses
36 25
·
Amounts carried forward
$9,190 19
$10,325 91
629
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
Amounts brought forward $9,190 19 $10,325 91
Depreciation in value of tools and property 220 94
Value of materials on hand De- cember 31, 1897 113 32
Value of tools and property on hand December 31, 1897 (in- cluding purchases during the year, $108.19) 826 30
Total debit
10,350 75
Amount overdrawn
$24 84
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Unexpended balance of 1896
$27,809 83
Appropriated in 1897
25,000 00
Receipts and credits :-
For catch-basin curbs in side-
walks, received credit from Sidewalks and Highways account .
$38 34
Fee for draining estate into Tannery Brook sewer 17 25
Fee for draining estate into Broadway sewer 8 20
Changes in yard of John P. Squire & Co. 260 00
Reconstruction catch-
basins, West End Street Railway Co. 25 00
Amounts carried forward $348 79
. $52,809 83
630
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward
Metropolitan park com- mission, on account of construction of Mystic-avenue drain and sewer . ·
$348 79 $52,809 83
2,000 00
Highways, Paving Somer- ville Avenue account, materials 22 00
Sewers, Maintenance ac- count, teaming . .
42 63
2,413 42
Value of materials on hand January 1, 1897
619 03
Unpaid bills of 1897
596 21
Total credit
$56,436 49
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For twelve sewers constructed
and partially con- structed during the year $7,293 54
Less assessments .
4,586 77
$2,706 77
Abatement of sewer as-
sessment
74 00
Tannery Brook sewer
2,684 60
Balance on private lands and College-avenue sewer
32 34
Balance on North Packing
and Provision Co., sewer 49 00
Tannery Brook drain
6,291 67
Amounts carried forward
$11,838 38
$56,436 49
631
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
Amounts brought forward $11,838 38 $56,436 49
Mystic-avenue storm- water drain and sewer Winthrop-avenue storm- water drain and sewer Construction storm drains Building thirty-four catch- basins ·
7,569 17
13,016 43
399 34
1,684 26
Packing house connec-
tions, surface water changes in yards ·
163 18
Books, stationery, and
printing .
177 00
Sundry expenses .
50 98
Unpaid bills of 1896
2,071 99
Value of materials on hand De-
cember 31, 1897
191 41
Total debit
37,162 14
Balance unexpended
$19,274 35
A detailed statement of the work of this department during the year will be found in the report of the City Engineer.
For the Committee on Sewers, ANDREW A. LAMONT, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 16, 1898.
Referred to the Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, February 16, 1898.
Referred to the Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports, in concurrence.
WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk pro tem.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
OFFICE OF CITY ENGINEER, CITY HALL, January 24, 1898. 5
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 expense incurred for the year ending December 31, 1897, by the Engineering Department, Sewer Department, Public Grounds Department and other special works of improve- ment which have been under the supervision of the City Engineer.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
In January, 1897, the office of the Engineering Department had been removed from its apartments in the old part of the City Hall building to the northwesterly side of the new addition, on the second floor, where the varied work that comes under the depart- ment can be carried on far more advantageously and economically than formerly.
The new office is nearly three times the size of the old one, and the fireproof vault, for storage of valuable plans, note books, and other important data, is over four and one-half times the size of the former vault; also, there are facilities in the roof for the copying and printing of plans and other miscellaneous work.
638
ANNUAL REPORTS.
During the past year many questions of importance have come before the City Council requiring the services of the En- gineering Department ; embracing studies, designs and estimates for relieving the overcharged sewer system in times of storms, de- signs and estimates for the construction of bridges and subways and many other local improvements, which necessitated more or less study, the making of plans, estimates of cost, furnishing lines and grades and general supervision and inspection of the work of construction.
Sixteen assistants have been employed in the Engineering Department, nine permanently and the others as additional work required. The cost of maintaining the department has been as follows :--
Appropriation
$9,000 00
Received from West End Street Railway Co., for lines and grades furnished 81 28
Received from Miscellaneous account, survey Somerville and Cambridge boundary line . 150 00
Received from Highway Department, street num- bering 43 00
$9,274 28
Salary City Engineer (including
maintenance of team) . ·
$2,200 00
Salaries of assistants
6,486 93
Draughting materials, stationery and office supplies ·
207 91
Tapes, plumbs, stakes, tools and general supplies ·
94 23
Car fares
172 18
Expressing and incidental ex-
5 99
penses
·
Total expenditure . .
9,167 24
Unexpended balance .
$107 04
639
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES, ASSISTANTS' SALARIES.
Sewers-comprising surveys, estimates, profiles,
lines, grades, titles, plans, assessments and all work relating to sewers Highways-comprising plans, estimates, titles, profiles, lines and grades 313 74
$2,405 49
Sidewalks-comprising profiles, lines, grades, measurements, titles, costs and assessments . 501 98 Water Works-comprising lines, grades, loca- tions of mains, gates, hydrants and services and other matters relating to water works 477 72
Public Grounds-comprising surveys, plans, esti- mates, profiles and grades 193 60
Public Buildings-comprising surveys, estimates, lines, grades and other work relating to con- struction 90 46
Street Numbering-comprising locations of buildings, plans and affixing street numbers on houses 207 59
Street Lines- comprising establishing of lines, grades and miscellaneous data given parties for building and grading 155 07
Middlesex Registry -- comprising copying of plans and abstracts from deeds filed and ex- amination of titles 185 66
City Survey-comprising lines, angles and meas- urements, calculations of traverses and loca- tions of division lines and buildings
361 94
Somerville-Cambridge Boundary Line-com- prising surveys, plans, areas, valuations and data for proposed change in line 529 52
Subways and Bridges-comprising preliminary surveys, plans, estimates and lines and . grades for construction 167 19
Amount carried forward
$5,589 96
.
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$5,589 96.
West End Street Railway Co .- comprising grades, plans and profiles 139 07 Somerville Electric Light Co .- comprising lines, plans and locations 33 43
Office Work-comprising records of all loca- tions, indexing, typewriting, calculations and general draughting 413 33
Miscellaneous Work-comprising preliminary surveys, designs, sketches, etc., relating to various schemes for different committees 311 14
Total $6,486 93
The total cost of maintaining the Engineer's de- partment from 1872 to 1897, both years in- clusive, has amounted to $135,138 00
SEWERS AND STORM RELIEF DRAINS.
WEST SOMERVILLE DISTRICT.
The construction of the Tannery Brook storm drain was com- pleted to Davis square in January, 1897, and during the severe storms of the past season cellars and large areas in this section, which formerly have been badly flooded, were entirely relieved of rain water and back sewage. A description of this work is given in the City Engineer's report of 1896.
Early in the year, to give partial relief to the Morrison-street and Grove-street sewers, a twenty-four-inch pipe drain was con- structed from Davis square northeasterly in Elm street to the junc -- tion of Morrison street, where an overflow connection with the sewerage system was made, and, in times of storms, conducts a large quantity of water from the district in the vicinity of Nathan Tufts park, comprising about twenty-five acres, directly to the newly-constructed Tannery Brook storm drain.
The Grove-street sewer and adjacent cellars will not be en- tirely relieved from flooding in times of storms until the large .
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Forbes Co., Boston.
WINTHROP AVENUE STORM DRAIN, 7 FT. 6 IN. X 7 FT. 1 IN.
Plan showing Platform and Ples Crossing Metropolitan Jewer Line .
Longitudinal Section Showing Storm Drain Crossing Metropolitan Server Line.
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CITY OF SOMERVILLE
PLANS AND SECTIONS SHOWING CONSTRUCTION
WINTHROPAVE. STORM DRAIN
(SEWER.)
-JULY 15, 1897.
ERNEST W. BAILEY CITY ENGINEER .
Semer: 22×27'
Auer Bachi
Longitudinal Section on Concrete.
Cross
encrete
"Und
rain
Storm Drain 76 high & Fioride.
exe
12 Jewer:
Longitudinal Section Showing Blattley Are. Serrer Siphon Crossing Storm Drain.
GEO. H.WALKER & CO. BOSTON
Cross Section on Piles Showing, Manhole Opening in Gutter Line of Street to be used as a Catch Basin.
Longitudinal Section on Piles.
AND SEWER IN
CANVASS OF BIDS JULY, 1897, FOR CONSTRUCTING STORM WATER DRAIN WINTHROP AVENUE.
NAME OF BIDDER.
Earth Excavation
per. lin. ft.
Underdrain
per lin. ft.
Concrete (5-2-1) Amer. Cement
per cu. yd.
Concrete (5-2-1) Port. Cement
Concrete (6-3-1) Port. Cement
per cu. yd.
per cu. yd. Brick Masonry Amer. Cement
per cu. yd. Brick Masonry Port. Cement
Spruce Piles in
per lin. ft.
Spruce Lumber
in Place
per M ft. B. M.
E. W. Everson & Co.
$5 00
$0 50
$6 00
$6 90
$6 40
$12 00
$14 00
$0 25
$30 00
$26,800 00
Charles A. Mongan .
3 75
0 20
5 50
7 00
6 50
12 50
15 00
0 18
30 00
24 860 00
Charles G. Craib
6 05
0 15
4 50
6 37
5 70
10 40
11 62
0 15
21 00
24,491 80
Felton, Holbrook, Cabot & Daly
4 50
0 12
4 50
6 00
5 50
12 50
13 80
0 19
30 00
24,331 00
Dennis F. O'Connell
3 00
0 20
6 00
7 50
6 75
12 75
14 75
0 18
30 00
24,297 50
H. A. Hanscom & Co.
2 50
0 20
5 50
6 75
6 75
12 00
14 00
0 30
35 00
24,267 50
T. H. Bryne
3 75
0 25
5 00
6 50
6 25
12 00
14 00
0 16
28 00
23,822 50
J. P. O'Connell
3 00
0 20
4 80
7 00
6 50
11 50
15 00
0 20
28 00
23,485 00
Richard Falvey
4 00
0 30
5 00
6 50
6 00
11 00
13 00
0 20
29 00
23,435 00
Richard J. Malone
2 40
0 10
4 90
6 40
6 15
13 00
16 00
0 19
25 00
22,922 50
William F. Cunningham
2 35
0 15
5 60
7 06
6 66
11 50
14 00
0 20
30 00
22,689 00
C. A. & C. E. Trumbull
2 85
0 12
4 35
5 50
5 75
10 85
14 25
0 17
24 00
21,375 50
Crimmings & Collins
3 30
0 25
4 50
5 50
5 00
11 00
12 00
0 13
20 00
20,305 00
Daniel A. Dorey & Co.
4 50
0 25
5 50
7 00
6 50
13 00
17 00
0 20
22 00
26,470 00
The contract was awarded Daniel A. Dorey & Co.
per cu. yd.
Total Bid.
Place
641
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
quantity of surface water which is being discharged into this sewer from another watershed is diverted to its natural outlet ; this can only be done by the construction of a drainage system in the Lowell railroad valley.
WINTER HILL AND EAST SOMERVILLE DISTRICT.
During the past year a beginning on the construction of the eastern district storm water system has been made, commencing at Mystic avenue and extending through Winthrop avenue to Broadway ; this section built is a "basket handle" drain in shape, seven feet six inches high by seven feet one inch wide, the top half being a semi-circle, and the lower half having nearly perpendicular sides and a flattened bottom.
Five hundred and ninety-three feet of this structure is built on a four-inch spruce platform, supported on piles, capped with ten-inch by ten-inch spruce timbers, the piles varying in length from six feet to twenty-eight feet.
The invert of the drain and sides are built of four-inch Port- land cement brickwork and the arch of eight-inch Rosendale cement brickwork, the sides and bottom being supported with Portland cement concrete, varying in thickness from six inches to ten inches.
The portion constructed is a part of the main outlet channel to Mystic river, which will eventually take branches from the East Somerville and Winter Hill districts, having a total area of more than five hundred acres.
When these two proposed branches are completed, having overflow connections with the present sewerage system, the streets which are flooded in time of heavy rainfall and cellars which are flowed with back sewage will be permanently relieved.
A branch for storm water could be extended from the Win- ter Hill branch of the proposed drain at Gilman square, in the Boston &Maine railroad location, which would give relief for an area of about one hundred acres in this valley.
The building of another section of the eastern district system on the northerly side of Mystic avenue, between Winthrop avenue
642
ANNUAL REPORTS.
and Wheatland street, was necessitated the last year on account of the construction of a branch of the Metropolitan boulevard in this section of the city.
The new drain takes the place of an old box culvert which has been the outlet for more than twenty years for the drainage from a section of the city lying north of Broadway and west of Wheat- land street.
The sewer is a circular structure, fifty inches in diameter, composed of Portland cement concrete and brickwork, the whole structure resting on a timber platform supported by piles driven through the marsh land into a clay foundation.
This structure is crossed at right angles by one of the forty- eight-inch Metropolitan water mains, which extends through the boulevard before referred to; the water pipe at this point being supported by heavy spruce timbers, laid horizontally and upright, resting on the sewer foundation, the weight of both structures being supported by large spruce piles. Charles C. McGrew & Co. were the contractors.
UNION SQUARE DISTRICT.
Another section of the city where the sewers are wholly inadequate to carry off the surface water in times of storms is the watershed adjacent to Union square, extending northerly on Summer street as far as School street and westerly to Concord square and the Cambridge line; the only way of relieving this flooded district is by the construction of a large storm-water drain to the nearest tide water outlet, namely, Miller's river, near the boundary line at East Cambridge.
The main line being in Somerville avenue, with branches through Newton street, Concord square and Springfield street, and in Bow street and Summer street. The main line could be extended from Union square westerly in Somerville avenue and Beacon street, as required, in the future.
CLARENDON HILL DISTRICT.
That section of the city west of Curtis street is the only part of Somerville which has no means of house drainage by sewers.
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MYSTIC AVENUE STORM DRAIN, 50 INCH, Forbes Co., Boston.
AT CROSSING WITH 48 INCH METROPOLITAN WATER MAIN.
643
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
A number of petitions have been received from property owners for the construction of sewers in different part of this locality, but nothing can be done in the way of construction of these lateral sewers until the main line, or trunk sewer, is con- structed, connecting with the Metropolitan sewer along the east- erly bank of Alewife brook. Only house drainage will enter this system of sewers, storm water being discharged into Alewife brook through separate channels.
This outlet, being across private lands, should be constructed at once, while the right of way is available.
METROPOLITAN SEWER CONNECTIONS.
All of the city's connections with the Metropolitan sewer mains have been made, with the exception of a small district in East Somerville, having its outlet at North Union street. This connection should be made at an early date.
A portion of the sewage in the West Somerville district is discharged through the city of Cambridge into the Metropolitan sewer, and also sewage from a small area at North Somerville is discharged through the city of Medford into the Metropolitan sewer.
About sixty-six and one-tenth miles of sewers, having over eleven thousand house connections in the city, are connected with the Metropolitan sewer mains.
Following is a table showing the annual cost paid by the city of Somerville to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on account of the construction and maintenance of the Metropolitan sewerage system :-
Year.
Amount paid on Construction.
Amount paid on Maintenance.
1894
$22,230 79
$ 6,510 20
1895
29,872 56
6,964 40
1896
.
39,661 06
13,148 55
1897
39,260 25
13,292 25
644
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SEWERS AND STORM DRAINS CONSTRUCTED IN 1897.
Twelve sewers have been constructed during the year, a length of five thousand seven hundred sixty-one and one-half. linear feet, at a total cost of $6,810.10.
Four thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and seventy- seven cents being assessed on land owners, the city paying the balance of the cost. One sewer contracted for remained uncom- pleted December 31, 1897.
Two thousand six hundred and four linear feet of storm drains, costing $27,210.04, have been built the past year.
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