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Stone bounds have been set in Portland cement concrete at a number of street intersections and angles to define and preserve the true lines of public streets, and this work should be continued as much as possible each year. These bounds are also of great convenience in establishing permanent "Bench Marks" throughout the city for giving grades.
On account of the appropriation but one bound was set in 1912, on Giles Park, southwesterly side, at end of street.
In the report of 1907 a table was compiled from old reports, maps, and office notes, showing the location of stone bounds, as set, for defining street lines and angles; the year when set, and whether existing or removed at the present time, from 1860 to 1907; inclusive, and in the following reports a list of bounds set during each year. There are at the present time 572 stone bounds set in the city for defining street lines.
The total length of public streets in the city is 77.987 miles, and private streets 20.055 miles. (See table in this re- port for location, width, length, etc.)
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Streets Accepted as Public Highways in 1912, under the Betterment Act.
NAME OF STREET. WARD.
FROM
To
Length Width in Feet. in Feet.
Date of Acceptance.
Acadia park
6
Somerville ave. . Lowell st.
Northeasterly
40
256
Dec. 27
Fisk ave.
5
Hinckley st. .
'20
484
Dec. 27
Frederick ave.
6
Willow ave ..
·
Boston ave. .
40
1,175
Dec. 27
Greenville st. .
3
( widened
Richardson st.
{ So. Div.
26
569
Dec. 27
Landers st.
3
School st ..
Westerly
40
228
Dec. 27
Ossipee rd.
7
Mason st.
Packard ave.
40
633
Dec. 27
Rhode Island ave.
1
Mystic ave.
Pennsylvania ave.
40
460
Nov. 20
Russell rd.
7
Broad way
Angle
40
559
Dec. 31
St. James ave.
7
Summ er st.
Northerly
30
125
Dec. 27
Sunnyside ave. Walnut rd.
4
Walnut st.
Kenneson rd.
40
270
Dec. 27
Water st.
2
South st.
Northerly
25
366
Dec. 27
Waterhouse st.
7
Broadway .
Cambridge line .
40
987
Dec. 27
Wisconsin ave.
1
Broadway .
Pennsylvania ave.
50
499
Nov. 20
Total
(1.310 miles)
6,917
..
Length of Public Streets in Each Ward.
Miles.
Ward one
.
9,712
Ward two
8.670
Ward three .
7.522
Ward four
9.499
Ward five
11.827
Ward six
12.892
Ward seven
17.865
Total length of public streets in the city .
77.987
A number of street names have been changed and plans made showing a re-numbering of the buildings, and all old numbering plans revised, new houses plotted, and numbers assigned.
Some of the old main thoroughfares should be re-numbered throughout their entire length, so as to eliminate half numbers and letters now being used, as many of these old streets have outgrown their original numbering.
There are many streets, avenues, courts, and places in the city of the same or very similar name, which should be changed to prevent the confusion and inconvenience now existing.
.
South street, between Medford street and Water street, a length of 990 feet, has been paved with granite blocks, averag- ing six inches in depth, grouted with pebbles and cement, laid with a sand and cement cushion one inch in thickness, on a Portland cement concrete base four inches in thickness.
§ East'ly sidewalk
Medford st. s'ly
....
196
Dec. 27
Henderson st.
5
4
Wigglesworth st.
Walnut st.
25 to 35
306
Dec. 27
B. & M. R. R.,
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CITY ENGINEER.
This pavement was laid by contract at the following cost :-
C. W. Dolloff & Co., contractors :-
Laying 2,216.3 square yards granite block
paving, concrete base . $6,094 83
Extra work, resetting curbstone 51 75
Total cost of work . $6,146 58
Average cost, $2.77 per square yard for cement-grouted granite block pavement laid on concrete base, including all incidental work.
This same kind of pavement will probably be extended during the coming year in Water street to the freight yard on the Fitchburg division of the Boston & Maine railroad, completing a suitable roadway for heavy teaming, which has long been needed.
Holland street, between Thorndike street and Moore street (excepting the area used by the street railway), a length of 1,583 feet, has been constructed with a Portland cement concrete base, five inches in thickness, and a bituminous wear- ing surface three inches in thickness; the excavation and con- crete base being done by. contract, and the wearing surface by the city's Highway department.
The street railway tracks were re-laid by the company at their expense, the granite block pavement between the tracks being grouted with Portland cement.
This work completed the pavement of Holland street and cost as follows :-
C. W. Dolloff & Co., contractors :-
Excavation and laying 4,140 square yards concrete base
$3,933 00
Laying 3,167 linear feet granite block brow-stone
475 05
Extra work, resetting curbstone
57 00
Cost of work done by contract
$4,465 05
City, Highway Department (day labor) :-
Constructing 4,632 square yards bitu- minous wearing surface :-
Labor, teaming, rolling
$981 36
Stone used (trap rock)
739 62
"Tarvia" used .
2,232 69
$3,953 67
Total cost of work . $8,418 72
Average cost, $1.82 per square yard for street construction with bituminous wearing surface laid on a concrete base.
Prospect street, between Webster avenue and the Cam- bridge city line, a length of 1,022 feet, has been constructed with a bituminous wearing surface on a concrete base, the same as Holland street, previously described, at the following cost :-
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
C. W. Dolloff & Co., contractors :-
Excavation and laying 3,869 square yards concrete base . $3,095 20 City, Highway Department (day labor) :- Constructing 3,869 square yards bitu- minous wearing surface :--
Labor, teaming and rolling 1,109 70
Stone used (trap-rock) 947 65
"Tarvia" and oil used
948 93
Resetting curbstone . 44 85
Total cost of work . $6,146 33 Average cost, $1.59 per square yard for street construction with bituminous wearing surface laid on a concrete base.
Beacon street, between Park street and Oxford street (Fitchburg Railroad bridge), a length of about 3,148 feet, has been constructed with trap-rock, using "tarvia" for a binder, the work being done by the Highway department, day labor, at the following cost :- -
Constructing 6,996 square yards pavement :-
Labor, teaming, rolling
$4,151 02
Stone used (trap-rock)
3,864 00
"Tarvia" used
2,729 89
Total cost of work . $10,744 91
Average cost, $1.54 per square vard for street construction with bituminous wearing surface.
Pearl street, between Cross street and Mt. Vernon street, a length of 2,017 feet, has been improved, using the same form of construction as Beacon street, previously described, the work being done by the Highway department (day labor) at the following cost :-
Constructing 5.344 square yards pavement :-
Labor, teaming, rolling .
$3,152 64
Stone used (trap-rock) 2,120 38
"Tarvia" used
1,677 57
Total cost of work . $6,950 59 Average cost, $1.30 per square yard for street construction with bituminous wearing surface.
Construction work has been continued on Broadway (northeasterly side) between Fellsway East and Temple street, a length of 1,687 feet, using the same kind of pavement as in previous years, a bituminous wearing surface, the work being done by the Highway department, day labor, at the following cost :-
Constructing 5,633 square yards pavement :-
Labor, teaming, rolling $2,115 59
Stone used (trap-rock) .
1,494 60
"Tarvia" used
1,281 69
Total cost of work .
$4,891 88
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CITY ENGINEER.
Average cost, $.87 per square yard for street construction with bituminous wearing surface.
The total length of permanent paved streets in the city amounts to 10.3 miles.
The policy recently adopted of permanently constructing the city's main thoroughfares in preference to side streets has commenced to show good results.
In a few years' time, by the continuation of permanently constructing the remaining roadways, namely, on Broadway (Winter Hill to the Arlington line), Summer, Elm, and Wash- ington streets, and completing Beacon street, the city will have main thoroughfares that will compare favorably with any city in the state.
Six new streets have been constructed during the year, with a "tarviated" trap-rock surface, a length of 3,623 feet (0.68 mile), costing $11,847.78, where betterment assessments have been levied on the abutting property amounting to $5,923.91; the average cost of this construction being $1.17 per square yard, which includes cost of granite paved gutters.
Three streets have been constructed, "tarvia" being used as a binder, a length of 6,011 feet (1.14 miles) where no assess- ments were levied.
Parts of two streets have been constructed with a concrete base and a bituminous wearing surface, a length of 2,605 feet, and one street paved with granite blocks on a concrete base, a length of 989 feet.
Six streets have been re-macadamized with a "tarviated" surface, a length of 6,356 feet (1.2 miles) and sixteen streets repaired, a length of 7,809 feet (1.48 miles).
Table of Street Construction.
Square Yds. 98,965
Miles.
*Streets paved with granite blocks .
4.05
Streets paved with Hassam pavement .
36,802
1.80
Streets paved with asphalt
10,410
0.73
Streets paved with vitrified brick .
13,564
0.64
Streets paved with bitulithic
· 14,689
0,88
Combination pavement (concrete base with bitu- minous top)
2.16
Streets macadamized ("tarvia". bound) ·
12.86
** Streets macadamized (water bound)
53.15
Streets graveled or unimproved
21.77
Total
98.04
*Also 31.9 miles (single track) electric railway, paved with granite, asphalt, bitulithic.
** Includes 3.29 miles boulevard and 1.16 miles state highway.
Lines and grades have been given for setting 8,291 linear feet (1.57 miles) of new edgestone, and 3,189 square yards (0.923 mile) of new brick sidewalks, and 12,356 square yards
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
(4.736 miles) of granolithic sidewalks have been laid, and measurements taken for computing assessments; also on private streets 0.39 of a mile of granolithic sidewalks, .07 of a mile edgestone have been laid by private parties.
In connection with setting edgestone 2,753.7 square yards of new paved gutters have been laid, at an average cost of $2.07 per square yard, and a number of driveways and cross- ings have been constructed, all requiring lines, grades, and measurements.
(See tables for cost of new work, 1912, and total lengths of sidewalks constructed in the city to date.)
The average cost for the year has been as follows :-
For setting edgestone with gravel sidewalk . $1.07 per linear foot
Laying brick sidewalk, complete 1.37 per square yard
Laying granolithic sidewalk, complete 1.67 per square yard
And the cost of materials used, furnished by contract :-
Edgestone (straight) delivered at work .
$0.55 per linear foot
Edgestone (circle) delivered at work 0.64 per linear foot
Bricks delivered at work . 12.90 per M.
Cement (Portland) on cars
0.99 per barrel (net)
Sand and gravel on cars .
0.64 per cubic yard
Crushed stone on cars
1.10 per ton
In sections of the city where brick sidewalks have been laid many years, and must necessarily be re-laid on account of deterioration and unevenness, granolithic should be substituted in the place of brick.
Miles of Edgestone, Gravel, Granolithic and Brick Sidewalks in Each Ward.
Edgestone.
Gravel Sidewalk.
Brick Sidewalk.
Granolithic Sidewalk.
Ward one
17.615
4.601
12.048
1.323
Ward two
14.421
7.444
6.691
0.286
Ward three
13.979
1.560
11.552
0.867
Ward four
14.319
2.441
9.948
1.912
Ward five
20.888
6.688
12.142
2.058
Ward six
22.421
6.551
10.734
6.552
Ward seven
24.576
8.098
8.387
9.342
128.219
37.383
71.502
22.340
.
A considerable quantity of stone still remains on the two parcels of ledge property owned by the city, situated in West Somerville, that can be quarried and used for the foundation of streets and on sidewalk work, to the city's advantage. By using the stone from these two ledges and purchasing trap- rock, the city will have a sufficient supply of good road material for a number of years to come.
Lines and grades have been given for laying 9,534 linear feet of new city water mains, varying in size from two inches to fourteen inches in diameter (1,567 feet being re-located
Table Showing Sidewalks Constructed (not exceeding one-half cost assessed on abutters) and Paved Gutters Laid in Connection Therewith in 1912.
MATERIAL.
PAVED GUTTERS.
STREET
Ward.
SIDE.
FROM
To.
WIDTH OF SIDEWALK IN FEET.
Gravel and Edge- stone. Lineal Feet.
BRICK.
GRANOLITHIC.
Lin. Feet.
Sq. Yards.
Lin. Feet. Sq. Yards.
Sq. Yards.
Cost.
Bay State avenue
7
Both .
Fosket street
Where already laid
6.67
Gran. 4.0, sod { rem. width.
111.3
61.5
$113.19
Benedict
1
Northerly .
Union street
Where already laid
90.8
61.5
...
93.9
99.1
200.09
Calvin
2
Southeasterly
Beacon street
Dimick street
Cameron avenue
7
Southeasterly .
Estate of No. 26 .
Cambridge line
10.00
Gran. 6.0, sod Į rem. width
707.9
522.5
948.31
Central .
6
Northwesterly .
Summer street
Cleveland street
5.50
434.5
263.3
424.81
College avenue
7
Easterly
Warner street
Dearborn road
10.00
Gran. 6.0, sod ¿ rem. width 852.4
1,472.5
1,061.8
2,901.76
284.1
$667.52
Columbus avenue
3
Southerly . Both .
Bonner avenue
6.67
138.5
95.4
521.3
353.2
554.99
Columbus avenue
3
Northeasterly
In front of estate No. 19
6.67
80.4
55.0
273.1
182.5
288.09
Curtis
7
Easterly
Broadway
Northerly
6.67
59.9
45.2
105.59
Derby
4
Both .
Temple street
Grant street
6.67
1,596.3
1,078.6
1,873.57
Dimick
2
Southwesterly
Calvin street
Waldo avenue
6.67
218.3
146.1
239.28
Elm
7
Easterly
Elston street
Cutter avenue
10.00
541.1
426.0
856.70
Fairmount avenue
7
Both .
Curtis street
End
6.67
1,296.0
Fosket
Both .
Willow avenue
Liberty avenue
6.67
1,288.1
868.9
1,459.34
Gorham .
7
Both .
Holland street
Howard street
6.67
1,562.0
1,044.0
1,632.28
Greenville
3
Northwesterly .
Medford street
Boston street
6.67
386.6
261.5
413.12
Heath
5
Both .
Moreland street .
Edgar avenue
6.67
693.6
465.7
753.61
Hill
7
Both .
Broadway
Fairmount avenue
6.67
575.0
5.83
961.6
201-203-205
10.00
147.9
152.6
276.59
Kidder avenue
7
Northerly .
Liberty avenue
6.67
213.2
234.9
157.1
71.0
139.80
Langmaid avenue
Both .
Broadway
Heath street
5.00
696.6
6.67
1,446.3
998.4
1,551.17
Line
2
Northeasterly
In front of estates Nos.
102-114 inclusive
5.50
200.0
104.5
226.32
Lowden avenue
7
Both .
Fosket street
Where already laid
6.67
240.4
110.3
224.13
Lowell
6
Both .
Somerville avenue
Summer street
6.00
2,290.2
1,439.5
2,532.76
Mansfield
Easterly
Washington street
To and inc. estate No. 35 .
6.67
373.5
252.4
395.91
Marion .
2
Northerly .
Dimick street
Wyatt street
6.67
593.1
401.9
484.74
Meacham road
7
Southerly .
Where not already laid
Cambridge line .
6.67
171.5
119.0
176.73
15.7
32.78
Medford
2
Southerly.
Warren street
8.33
37.4
32.6
44.24
Moreland
Southeasterly
Meacham street .
6.67
232.0
155.5
217.11
Mystic avenue
Southerly .
In front of estate No. 66 Benedict street
Mystic avenue
6.67
Oak
2
Both .
Angle .
5.00
1,069.0
548.2
740.33
Paulina
Both .
Holland street
6.67
1,465.8
61.5
41.7
60.41
South
North
In front of estates Nos. Summer street
6.67
648.8
466.0
112.9
94.1
134.87
St. James avenue .
Southwesterly .
Elm street .
6.67
501.7
340.7
366.6 1,353.7
275.9 908.5
1,516.49
685.2 32.7
1,315.17 45.12
Walnut
4
Easterly
Highland avenue
Pearl street (where not laid)
6.67
98.2
499.3
321.0
570.01
Warner .
Northwesterly .
Bromfield road .
College avenue .
10.00
rem. width
90.0
51.9
...
438.1
292.2
511.35
Wyatt
2
Westerly
Concord avenue . .
Wyatt circle
6.67
200.5
146.7
...
Total assessment, $17,195.62.
Net cost to city, $17,195.56.
8,291.0
4,890.0
3,189.0
18,223.3
12,356.0
$34,391.18
2,753.7
$5,709.21
Amount of edgestone, sidewalks, brick, granolithic and tar, in front of private estates
Totals .
Gravel sidewalks, 1.335 miles. Brick sidewalks, 0.923 miles. Granolithic sidewalks, 4.736 miles.
440.0
2,077.8 ·
7
Northerly .
Curtis street
Easterly
6.67 10 & 11 6.67
223.0
150.8
254.93
113.17
Columbus avenue
3
Washington street
Where not laid Angle.
6.67
Bowers avenue (where not laid)
6.67
Cottage avenue
7
Northeasterly
Russell street
..
191.6
578.52
Hinckley
5
Both .
Richardson street
971.43
320.3
693.55
Holland .
7
Northeasterly
232.2
514.87
Lexington avenue
6
Both
Cedar street
Hancock street
Gran. 4.0, sod {
rem. width
676.2
453.4
663.99
Myrtle
Easterly .
In front of estate Nos. 39- 41-49
6.67
30.0
108.8
112.7
203.92
Mystic
1
Westerly
Cambridge line . Broadway
11-13-15
5.00
75.6
42.9
51.12
Spring
Westerly .
Estate of No. 24 20 and 24
6.67+
Summer
Southwesterly .
Willow avenue
Burnside avenue
7.50
Sydney
4
Both .
Grant street
Temple street
6.67
Victoria .
7
Both .
Broadway
Cambridge line .
6.67
2,055.0
Gran. 6.0,sod Į
85.7
56.2
105.30
Warren
2
Easterly
In front of estate No. 56
5.0&6.67
Wyatt
2
Easterly
Concord avenue .
.
Lincoln parkway
6.67
353.5
238.0
313.29
1,349.44
488.9
805.08
Russell
North westerly .
In front of estate No. 51
6.67
741.32
Spring
South westerly .
In front of estates Nos. Summer street
478.25
535.77
.
..
2,177.65
7 1726676 2 6 6 7
In front of estate No. 56 Main street.
5
1
1
In front of estates Nos.
Powder House terrace
548.77
807.20
Gran. 6.5, sod ¿
rem. width
1,404.16
432.0
916.80
806.99
Boston and Lowell R. R.
5
71.50
102.63
Broadway
Total Cost.
70.42
192.04
11.00
47.2
٠٠٠
.
40
4
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CITY ENGINEER.
mains). Two hundred and sixty-four new house services, many gates, hydrants, water posts, and blow-offs have been located and recorded, sketches and plans made showing the same, and the large water works wall maps corrected to date; also a large number of old water services where new meters were in- stalled have been located and recorded.
A set of block plans should be made covering the entire city area from accurate surveys made during the past twenty- five years, and compared section by section with the deed dimensions and areas recorded in the assessors' department, and in this manner the correct areas of land determined.
This set of plans would show the area and dimensions of each lot, all houses and other buildings, sewers, catch basins, house drains, water services, gas mains, underground conduits for wires, street lights, street railway tracks, etc., and be of great value to many departments. Five of these sectional plans have already been made. A separate appropriation should be made for completing these plans.
Plans have been made and photographs taken where . accidents have occurred on the city work or where boundaries were in dispute, special plans and data prepared for the city solicitor's use in court cases and hearings.
All plans of estates in Somerville recorded at the Registry of Deeds, East Cambridge, including land court plans, have been copied, also titles examined, abstracts from deeds made for the purpose of assessments, and the proportional part of the cost of new work computed, and schedules of assessments made out showing the property owners. Copies have been made of all city plans where land has been taken for highways or sewers, and these have been filed and recorded at the Registry, East Cambridge, as required by law.
Plans have been made by the various companies and cor- porations, and filed in the city engineer's office, showing the locations of gas mains, poles, tracks, and conduits in this city, which have been granted by the board of aldermen during the year ; and the work of placing overhead wires in conduits underground and removing all poles from streets should be extended as rapidly as possible.
At the present time there are underground in the city's streets 16.0 miles of telephone conduits, 8.35 miles of electric light conduits, 1.4 miles of electric railway conduits, and about 5.9 miles of underground conduits used for the city's wires.
The Cambridge and Charlestown gas companies have ex- tended their mains in the city's streets 2.75 miles the past year.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company have made extensive repairs in their roadbed in this city during the past year, replacing the old tracks with new and heavier rails, filling the space between the ties with Portland cement concrete, and
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
grouting the granite block pavement with cement in sections of Holland street, Elm street, and Somerville avenue.
Also new curves and special work have been laid at the junction of Medford street and Somerville avenue and in Teele square ; and tracks re-laid in Broadway parkway.
Where double car tracks have been laid in streets, leaving narrow roadways on either side, it is impossible to maintain a macadam surface, even at a heavy expense yearly, and these streets should be permanently paved with a suitable pavement, adapted to the character of the surroundings and amount of traffic and conditions encountered.
There are 31.9 miles of electric railroad (single track location) laid at the present time in the city's streets; and in watering the main thoroughfares, time and expense could be saved by utilizing this trackage for running street-sprinkler cars, the same as operated in a number of cities throughout the state.
Bridges and Grade Crossings. An act of the legislature was approved April 5, 1911, authorizing the city of Somerville and town of Arlington, any time within five years, to lay out, construct, and maintain a public way and bridge over Alewife brook, connecting Woodstock street .
in Somerville with Henderson street in Arlington, subject to the
approval of the Metropolitan Park Commission, and assess betterments for the same.
An appropria- tion has been made for this work by the city and town, pre- liminary bids obtained from contractors, 'and probably the bridge and approaches will be constructed the coming year.
Grade Crossings Account. STATEMENT OF EXPENSES, 1912.
Account overdrawn, 1911
$39,314 11
Extra legal services (City Solicitor)
4,598 02
Paid various parties for appraisal of prop- erty and damages and repairing prop- erty .
1,868 60
Paid for damages and land and buildings taken
80,675 00
Photographs, plans and advertising 263 75
$120,719 48
CREDIT.
Received from New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (lessee) decree of court
$301 56
Received from Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, apportionment of damages, decree of court
39,207 62
Received from Boston Elevated Railway, decree of court .
26,818 63
Received from Boston & Maine Railroad (lessee) decree of auditor
42,977 74
$109,305 55
Overdrawn
I
ʻ
·
$17,413 93
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CITY ENGINEER.
The work of abolishing grade crossings on the Fitchburg division of the Boston & Maine railroad in Somerville is pro- gressing, the Somerville-avenue crossing has been completed, the Webster-avenue crossing is practically completed with the exception of erecting iron and wooden fencing on the street, and at the Dane-street and Medford-street crossings the new work has been about one-half completed during the past year.
Probably work will be commenced at the Park-street crossing the coming year, and work at the other crossings completed.
The construction work for the elimination of these danger- ous grade crossings will be continued until completed as decreed by the court, and the total cost of the work, as completed, will be apportioned as follows : The steam railroad company, sixty- five per cent .; the state, twenty-five per cent., and the city ten per cent., except at the Somerville-avenue and Webster- avenue crossings, where the steam railroad and the city pay the same percentage of cost as at other crossings, the state twelve and one-half per cent., and the street railway company twelve and one-half per cent.
The plans for abolishment of these crossings were de- scribed in previous annual reports, and at two streets the plan adopted is the same as proposed by the city's scheme presented to the commission ; at the other three streets the plan adopted is just the reverse of the city's scheme, as presented.
Perambulation of City Boundary Lines. October 8, 1912, representatives appointed from the city of Somerville and city of Medford examined the boundary marks defining the division line between the two cities, and reported their findings in due form to the board of aldermen. A number of these stone markers are out of plumb and should be reset, and one has been cut off flush with the concrete floor of a new factory building as authorized by the Middlesex County Commis- sioners.
A contemplated change in the boundary line between Som- erville and Medford is under consideration by both cities, and probably an exchange of territory can be made that will be equally advantageous.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
SEWERS. Construction Account. STATEMENT OF EXPENSES, 1912.
Constructing . "separate system" sewers
(assessments levied)
$13,379 61
Constructing "combined system" sewers
(assessments levied)
1,435 50
Constructing "combined system" .
sewers
(no assessments)
1,087 23
Constructing storm drains
7,833 99
Constructing storm drainage "Somerville Field" to Alewife brook . ·
1,287 10
Constructing catch basins and manholes, street drainage ..
2,729 73
Abatement of sewer assessments for year .
828 80
Sundry expenses, books and printing . 54 77
Materials on hand December 31, 1912 .
675 97
Total expenditure
$29,312 70
Transferred to Fire Station account .
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