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STREET
Ward.
SIDE.
FROM
To
WIDTH OF SIDEWALK IN FEET.
BRICK.
GRANOLITHIC.
Lin, Feet. Sq. Yards.
Lin. Feet. Sq. Yards.
Acadia park .
6
Both .
Somerville avenue
End of street
6.67
*481.6
634.0
545.0
$724.85
Albion
5
Northeasterly
Central street
Centre street
19.67
Aldrich .
4
Southeasterly
Pearl street
Flint street
6.67
223.1
151.7
204.73
Ashland
Westerly
Summer street
Sartwell avenue
5.00
71.0
89.7
54.5
205.72 344.88
Beacon
2
Westerly
Washington street
Scott street
11.00
866.1
Belmont
6
Both .
Summer street
Somerville avenue
1 8.00
145.3
· 405.0
272.5
545.50
Boston avenue
6
Both .
Morrison avenue
N'E'ly to and inc. No. 19 & 20
6.67
587.4
396.4
539.51
Broadway
1
Northeasterly
Austin street
Cross street
15.00
rem. width
Broadway
4
Northeasterly Southwesterly .
In front of estate of D. W.
Sanborn, No. 382
Alfred street
15.00
rem. width S
412.5
408.0
625.23
Broadway
7
Southerly
Teele square
City ledge property
11.00
415.1
477.5
691.14
Broadway
2
Both .
Beacon street
Dimick street
6.67
Cameron avenue .
7
Northwesterly
Mead street
Malvern avenue
10.00
Gran. 6.0, sod } rem. width
191.0
145.4
257.44
Cedar
5
Southeasterly
Hudson street
Alpine street
6.67
Central street &
6
S. W. corner
In front of K. of C. Building
1 10.00
Chester avenue
.
Both .
Broadway
Camb. line (except ledge lot) 6.67
1,701.2
1,526.3
1,030.0
8,327.82
Clark
2
Both .
Newton street
Lincoln Parkway
5.83
#1,120.7
Con well
6
Northwesterly
Highland avenue
End of street
5.83
367.0
212.3
342.54
Conwell avenue
7
Both .
Curtis street
near North st. (where not laid)
6.67
Cross and Allston
1
N'E'ly corner
In front of estate of Sears
B. Condit
7.50
Curtis
Easterly
Electric avenue
Teele square
6.67
Cutter avenue
7
Both .
Highland avenue
Cutter square
6.67
Cutter square
7
Southeasterly
Elm street .
Summer street
6.67
63.2
Dane avenue
Both
Leland street
Dane street
5.00
1,063.4
75.0
56.7
77.37
Delaware
4
Both .
Pearl street .
Aldrich street
6.67
Elm
6
Westerly
Beech street
White street
10.00
711.8
Elm
7
Westerly
Russell street
Miller avenue
289.4
1,781.0
1,188.8
1,648.77
Fairmont avenue
7
Both
Curtis street
6.67
1,212.0
831.1
1,106.69
Fenwick
Both .
Heath street
Near Broadway
6.67
476.0
308.3
410.04
Fisk avenue
Both .
Lowell street
Hinckley street
2.75
*955.3
6.67
*1,672.4
974.0
656.0
890.98
Harding
2
Both .
Ward street
Cambridge line .
5.00
648.9
Harold
2
Both .
Dimick street
Marion street
6.67
*598.4
Harold
2
Southeasterly
Marion street
6.67
343.7
231.8
352.91
Henderson
Both
Richardson street
B. of L. R. R. .
2.75
*1,055.6
190.0
196.8
286.29
Holland
7
Easterly
City ledge property
Land of Taapken
10.09
149.9
147.6
252.97
Houghton
2
Both .
Springfield street
Cambridge line .
6.67
1,068.5
719.8
985.09
Ibbetson
0
Both
Lowell street
Somerville avenue
6.67
1,552.0
1,049.2
1,411.31
Jasper
1
Westerly
Gilman street
6.67
282.2
191.5
254.70
Jay
7
Westerly
Holland street
Howard street
6.67
561.5
378.3
504.47
Landers
3
Both
School street
Westerly
6.67
*438.6
460.6
307.8
410.70
Lowell Main
6
Southeasterly
Highland avenue
Albion street
6.67
391.0
265.0
369.18
Mallet
7
Northeasterly
Lowden avenue . Main street
Mystic avenue
6.67
129.8
104.5
70.8
537.5
364.5
575.81
Orchard
Northeasterly
Chester street
Meacham rd, (where not laid)
479.0
317.4
Orchard
7
Both
Chester street
Meacham rd. (where not laid) Packard avenue
6.67
Ossipee road
7
Both.
Mason street
Packard ave. (where not laid) Broadway
6.67
Perkins .
Northeasterly
In front of estate Armstrong No. 97
7.67
Porter
6
Northwesterly
In front of estates 64 and 70 .
7.50
Prospect
Both
Washington street
Prospect pl. (where not laid)
8.33
474.2 *989.7
(Narrow walks from grano, sidewalk to
edgestone)
44.8
114.64
Russell road .
Both
Hamilton road
6.67
*1,079.0
194.0
194.0
130.7
428.07
Somerville ave. & Elm .
Easterly
Craigie street
near Porter street
10.00
*240.8
251.7
123.0
163.59
Walnut street
Wigglesworth street
5.83
Taylor
4
Both
Sydney street
Mystic avenue
6.67
*644.7
616.6
417.6
554.80
Tremont
2
Both .
Cambridge line .
6.67
541.0
78.5
53.2
70.76
Walnut
4
Northwesterly
Highland avenue
8.00
857.2
42.9
45.5
60.52
Washington & Hanson
2
N. E. cor.
In front of estate Michael H. Dewire
5.00
Waterhouse
7
Both
Broadway
Cambridge line
6.67
*1,919.4
Winter
Both
Holland street
College avenue .
5.00
Woodstock
7
Both .
Victoria street
west of Waterhouse street
6.67
*537.0
Wisconsin avenue
1
Both .
Broadway
Pennsylvania avenue
11.50
(Narrow walks
from grano, sidewalk to gutter line)
125.1
249.00
Wisconsin avenue
1
Circles at Pennsylvania avenue
11.50
47.6
Total assessment, $20,033.56.
Net cost to city, $20,428.61.
23,100.9
583.5
436.8
35,591.4 25,219.8
$40,462.17
7
Northerly .
Packard avenue .
Westminster street
11.00
418.1
489.9
651.57
Broadway
7
Southerly
Clarendon avenue
E'ly in front No. 1156
11.00
107.7
120.8
224.20
Buckingham .
G
Northeasterly
In front of Girls' Vocation al School
Bartlett .
5
Southeasterly
Vernon street
Ames street
6.67
$ 7.50
2,384.0
1,830.6
2,513.13
Billingham
7
Southeasterly Both
Morrison avenue
Frederick avenue
6.67
*1257.1
Gran. 8.0, sod }
1,213.3
1,230.0
1,876.05
(Replacing Sod.)
42.5
6.1
Gran. 8.0,sod }
Broadway
5
Northeasterly .
William street
In front of estate of Katharine C. Kelley et al.
52.75 11.13
Broadway
5
1
Northerly
In front of estate of S. B. Condit No. 23
4.00
60.0
22.5
50.99
Clarendon avenue
7
-
Dearborn road
7
Southwesterly
In front of No. 32
8.33
Elmwood
7
Both
Holland street
near Cambridge line End
Near E. Albion street
6.67
Hall
6
Northeasterly
Cherry street
5.00
419.8
457.0
222.3
809.20
Holland
7
Easterly
Irving street
Simpson avenue
10.00
near Bay State avenue
6.67
101.3
67.0
113.15
Moreland
Westerly
Northwesterly
129.8
88.0
264.84
Newton
2
Southerly . Both
Webster avenue.
Cambridge line
6.67 6.67
6.67
611.3 *1.282.4
6.67
364.4 1,565.7
438.7
626.98
Paulina
7
Both.
Holland street
1,003 3
1,886.85
Rhode Island avenue
Both .
Pennsylvania avenue
Mystic avenue
7.50
Rhode Island avenue .
Both
Mystic avenue
7.50
School
3
Northwesterly
Preston road
Landers street
6.67
342.4
351.2
467.10
St. James avenue Sunnyside avenue
745
Westerly
Central road
B. & L. R. R. .
5.83
291.4
168.7
285.67
Walnut road .
1
Northeasterly
In front of estate L. W
6.67
222.4
185.8
300.00
Ward
2
Both
Medford street
Harding street .
5.00
Washington
2
Northerly .
In front of Nos. 405 & 407
10.00
$ 10.00
249.3
170.9
227.30
791.9
385.5
520.65
Totals .
.
Amount of edgestone, brick, granolithic and tar in front of private estates
Gravel sidewalks, 1.335 miles. Brick sidewalks, 0.923 miles. Granolithic sidewalks, 4.306 miles.
487.0
236.7
393.52
Atherton
344.0
232.5
243.6
388.37
6.67
295.0
240.0
319.20
Highland avenue
6.67
2,207.5
1,413.4
2,145.95
91.1
69.8
110.41
313.8
212.7
282.99
861.3
569.5
773.31
Frederick avenue
6
Both .
Boston avenue
Willow avenue
Fremont
Both
Meacham street Cedar street
.
.
.
6.67
66.6
45.1
70.53
1,321.0
894.0
1,216.78
Newbury
In front of estate of Samuel W. Flax
6.67
In front of estate A. C. Rogers No. 92
6.67
94.60
Norfolk
403.06
Ossipee road
Both.
Mason street
Northeasterly to end
5.00
511.4
298.5
396.98
Walnut road
1
Both .
Webster avenue Walnut street
Kenneson road Hazen .
6.67
1,113.5
753.0
1,068.56
18211 1 2 1 1
7
Pennsylvania avenue Broadway
Both .
Suminer street
Both
Sycamore
12377 7
Southwesterly
In front of estate No. 33.
1,152.7
560.8
1,866.64
896.2
607.6
850.41
10.00
583.5
392.0
539.16
Kenwood street ,
William street
6.67
Boston avenue
[ 6.67
Gravel and Edge- stone. Lineal Feet.
MATERIAL.
Total Cost
*Proportionate cost assessed under street construction.
172.22
47.2
36.5
147.0
113.0
Dimick street
Pearl street
6.67
(Replacing Sod.)
364.6
Medford street
6.67
385
CITY ENGINEER.
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 ser- vices where new meters were installed, 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 assessor's depart- ment, and in this manner the correct areas of land deter- mined.
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 con- duits for wires, street lights, street railway tracks, etc., and be of great value to many city departments. Five of these sectional plans have already been made. A separate appro- priation should be made for completing these plans.
Plans have been made and photographs taken where accidents have occurred on the city work, or where boun- daries 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 Regis- try 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 the 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 re- corded at the Registry, East Cambridge, as required by law. Plans have been
made by the various com- panies and corporations, and filed in the city engineer's office, showing the locations of gas mains, poles, tracks, and con- duits 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 the streets should be extended as rapidly as possible.
At the present time, there are underground in the city's streets 16.7 miles of telephone conduits, 8.59 miles of elec- tric light conduits, 1.4 miles of electric railway conduits and about 9.1 miles of underground conduits used for the city's wires.
The Cambridge and Charlestown Gas Companies have extended their mains in the city's streets 0.83 mile the past year.
Heavy explosions have occurred in the city's streets from underground conduits, owned by private corporations.
386
ANNUAL REPORTS.
The city ordinances should be so changed that in the future all underground work constructed by these companies should be rigidly inspected by a competent man employed by the city, so as to eliminate as far as possible faulty construc- tion.
The Boston Elevated railway has made extensive repairs in its roadbed in this city during the past year, replacing the old tracks with new and heavier rails, filling the space be- tween the ties with Portland cement concrete, and grouting the granite block pavement with cement in Springfield street and sections of Elm street and Broadway.
Where double car tracks have been laid in streets, leav- ing narrow roadways on either side, it is impossible to main- tain 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 suroundings and amount of traffic and conditions encountered.
There are 31.9 miles of electric railroad (single track lo- cation) 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-sprinkling cars, the same as operated in a number of cities throughout the state.
Grade Crossings Account Statement of Expenses, 1914.
Paid for damages to property and land
and buildings taken
$83,568 61 Paid various parties for appraisal of
property and damages .
. 1,407 25
$84,975 86
CREDIT.
Received from Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston and Maine Railroad (lessee) and Bos- ton Elevated Railway. apportionment of cost by decree of court and auditor $80,783 15
$4,192 71
No actual construction on grade crossing abolishment has been done during the past year. At Medford street, however, an automatic pump has been installed for remov- ing storm water from the subway under the steam railroad tracks and discharging into a city sewer at a higher eleva- tion-this means of disposal of water being made necessary by an act of legislature. The operation of this pump has not proved satisfactory to the city up to the present time.
Probably work will be commenced at the Park-street crossing in the near future. The construction work for the elimination of these dangerous grade crossings will be con-
387
CITY ENGINEER.
tinued until completed as decreed by the court, and the total cost of the work as completed, will be apportioned as fol- lows : 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 percen- tage 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 abolishments 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 pre- sented to the commission; at the other three streets the plan adopted is just the reverse of the city's scheme, as presented. City Boundary Lines. A number of the stone boundary markers, defining the division lines between Somerville-Cam- bridge and Somerville-Medford, are out of plumb and should be reset.
A contemplated change in the boundary line between Somerville and Medford is under consideration by both cities, and probably an exchange of territory can be made that will be equally advantageous.
388
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SEWER DIVISION. Construction Account.
STATEMENT OF EXPENSES. 1914.
Constructing "separate system" sewers
(assessments levied) .
$3,135 11
Constructing "combined system" sewers
(assessments levied)
509 09
Constructing "separate system" sewers
(no assessments) 995 43
Constructing storm drains
1,067 75
Constructing catch basins and manholes, street drainage .
3,451 78
Constructing Middlesex avenue state high- way, street drainage 483 20
Sundries, payment assessments, books etc.
113 83
Materials on hand December 31, 1914 . 1,010. 48
Total expenditure
$10,766 67
Transferred to other accounts
4,200 00
Total debit .
$14,966 67
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1913
$ 4,391 68
Appropriation, 1914 .
20,000 00
Assessments levied, sewers constructed, 1914
2,779 03
Amount received for old material
150 68
Materials on hand December 31, 1913 ,
746 69
Total credit
$28,068 08
Balance unexpended
$13,101 41
The greater part of the new construction work has been done by contract, and the remainder by the city employing day labor, where old structures were to be remodeled or re- placed by some difficult construction work. All materials have been furnished by the city, and the prices paid for supplies for the season, have been by contract with the low- est bidder as follows :-
Sewer pipe (3 ft. lengths) . 0.69% discount from list price on cars Sewer pipe fittings . 0.69% discount from list price on cars
Portland cement per bar- rel
$1.26 on cars (net)
Sand per cubic yard . 0.65 on cars
Sewer bricks per M.
9.75 on cars or at yard
Iron manhole and catch basin castings, per hun- dred weight
1.33 on cars
Catch basin traps, each
1.70 on cars or at foundry
A number of sewers have been constructed as petitioned for in various sections of the city, or as considered necessary for the improvement of the drainage system, and portions of
389
CITY ENGINEER.
the cost of construction assessed on the abutting estates under orders passed by the board of aldermen.
Short lines of storm drains and overflows from con- gested sewers have been constructed during the year in the most needed districts.
The "separate system" sewers (those built for house drainage only) have been extended in a number of streets in the older districts, and this system should be extended yearly until all the flooded districts in the city have two com- plete systems of drainage, the old sewer to be used for storm, and surface water. The city pays the entire cost of these new sewer extensions for house drainage, and wherever con- structed the house plumbing should be changed where neces- sary ; and the house drains and conductor, or surface water drains, re-connected with both systems as soon as possible.
New sewers and drains were constructed during the year varying in size from six-inch pipe to twelve-inch pipe in th .. following localities :-
"Separate system" sewers in :-
College Hill road,-Conwell avenue to North street. Glen street,- end of sewer built in 1913 to Broad- way.
New Hampshire avenue,-Mystic avenue to near Pennsylvania avenue.
North street,-end of sewer built in 1911 to Osgood street, Medford.
Power House Boulevard,-angle manhole in sewer built in 1908 to near Leonard street.
Powder House Boulevard,-Metropolitan connection opposite Somerville field to near North street. Weston avenue,-Broadway to angle.
"Combined system" sewers in :-
Boston avenue,-end of sewer built in 1904 to Fred- erick avenue.
Storm drains in :-
Frederick avenue,-Boston avenue to Prichard avenue.
College Hill road,-Conwell avenue to North street.
New Hampshire avenue,-Mystic avenue to near Pennsylvania avenue.
North street,-end of sewer built in 1911 to Osgood street, Medford.
Weston avenue,-Broadway to angle.
SUMMARY OF WORK.
Summary of Work. Thirteen new sewers and drains have been constructed during the year, a total length of 4,407
390
ANNUAL REPORTS.
linear feet (0.835 mile) at a cost of $5,707.38; plans have been made showing these sewers in detail, and assessments levied on a portion of them, amounting to $2,779.03. (See tabular statement of sewers and drains for 1914, showing itemized statement of work and cost.)
The total length of the city's drainage system is 108,708 miles; 30,597 miles being on the "separate system" and 9,017 miles of storm drains, and the entire cost of construction has amounted to about $1,312,608.38 exclusive of the amount paid to the state for assessments for the construction of the North Metropolitan sewerage system.
Thirty-one new catch-basins have been constructed in the highways during the year, making a total of 1,735 basins in the city for street drainage purposes, constructed and maintained as follows :-
By the city (sewer division) :-
Located in streets and subways ·
1,680 basins
Located in city boulevard 30 66
Located in parks (13) and other city lots (12) . ·
25
Total catch basins constructed and maintained by city
By Boston & Maine Railroad Company on railroad locations 33 basins
1,735
By state, located in boulevards 52 66
85
Total catch basins in the city for storm drainage purposes 1,820
Metropolitan Sewer Connections. All of the city's con- nections with the North Metropolitan state sewerage sys- tem are in good condition. One new main connection has been made at Powder House boulevard, opposite City Field.
Wherever the city's "combined system" sewers are con- nected with the Metropolitan sewer, the flow is automati- cally regulated so that in times of storms the connection closes and the discharge continues through the old channels to the rivers; the "separate system" connections are always in operation under all conditions. The locations of the con- nections of the city's mains with the state sewer are shown in the 1912 report.
The city's assessment for the Metropolitan sewer sys- tem for the past year was $41,489.52 on construction account and $30,948.03 for maintenance, and the total amount paid the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for this state sewer has been $1,029,583.79 (1892-1914, both years inclusive). The total length of the Metropolitan sewerage system mains running through the city amounts to 3.475 miles.
New Work. The separate system sewers should be ex- tended in the old sections of the city each year, as the appro-
TABULAR STATEMENT OF SEWERS AND STORM DRAINS BUILT IN 1914.
ITEMS OF CONSTRUCTION AND COST.
LOCATION
SEWER.
SUB-DRAIN.
PIPE SEWER, COST PER LINEAL FOOT.
FROM
To
CONTRACTOR.
MATERIAL EXCAVATED.
Average Cut.
Size in inches.
Length in feet.
Size in inches.
Length in feet.
Cubic yards Rock
Price per cubic
Manholes.
Average cost, Manholes.
Inlets.
Excavating, Re filling, and Pipe Laying.
Price, including
where laid
Engineering and
Inspection.
Miscellaneous.
Repaving Side-
walks, Resurfac-
ing Streets, etc.
Average C'est per
Total Cost.
Assessment.
Cost to City.
Boston avenue sewer and
End sewer 1904
Frederick avenue .
Charles A. Kelley
Filling and clay
9.5
12
328.5
1 $36.10
26
$0.90
$0.42
$0.15
$0.04
$1.55
$509.09
$491.30
$ 17.79
Frederick avenue, (storm-drain)
Boston avenue
Prichard avenue .
Charles A. Kelley
Filling and clay .
6.6
10
170
1
36.10
4
0 55
0.33
0.16
$0.01
1.27
215.58
215.58
*College Hill road, sewer
Conwell avenue
North street
Denis I. Crimmings
Hardpan and rock
6.6
496.5
$3.00
2
35.95
32
0,55
0.27
0.05
1.47
731.19
460.55
270.64
College Hill road, (storm-drain)
Conwell avenue
North street
Denis I. Crimmings
Hardpan and rock
7.6
6
496.5
25
3.00
32
0.20
0.20
0.05
0.60
298.60
298.60
*Glen street exteu. sew. 1913 .
End sewer 1913
Broadway
John D. Collins
Sand
7.1
10
211.9
6
403
13
0.9
$0.20
0.36
0.22
1.60
$0.52
4.70
995.43
995.43
*New Hampshire avenue, sew. .
.
Near Pennsylvania ave. .
Day labor
Filling and hardpan
6.7
8
307.3
2
17
0.07
1.14
351.85
351.85
New Hampshire ave., (storm-drain)
Mystic avenue
.
Near Pennsylvania ave.
Day labor
Filling and hardpan
7.7
8
307.3
2
17
0.09
0.07
0.78
239.59
239.59
End sewer 1911
Osgood street, Medford
Denis I. Crimmings
Hardpan
8.1
8
212.6
3.3
1
35.80
16
0.64
0.26
0.10
0.01
1.24
263.80
210.64
53.16
End sewer 1911
Osgood street, Medford
Denis I. Crinimings
Hardpan
9.1
G
212.1
8 00
327.5
6
3.00
2
39.25
11
0.30 1.40
0.23
0.13
0.96
314.09
300.14
13.95
*Powder House boulevard
Metropolitan connection near North street .
Charles A. Kelley
Sand and clay
6.5
776.8
4.3
4.00
42.00
29
1 .70
0.26
0.12
0.05
0.02
1.42
1,100.22
709.75
390.47
*Weston avenue, sewer
Broadway
Angle
Denis I. Crimmings
Hardpan and rock
6.7
8
280
32
3.00
1
35.80
19
0.55
0.24
0.07
1.34
373.96
254.80
119.16
Weston avenue, (storm-drain)
Broadway
Angle
Denis I. Crimmings
Hardpan and rock 7.7
G
280
33
3.00
19
0.20
0.18
0.07
0.80
224.89
224 89
4,407 ( .836 miles.)
$5,707.38
$2,779.03
$2,92.35
"Separate system sewer. tIncludes cost of reconstructing old sewer and portion cost previous year's work.
Total length of public sewers in the city, January 1, 1915 Total length of private sewers in the city, January 1, 1915 .
491,618.0 feet. 34,748.0 feet.
Total length of sewers in the city, January 1, 1915 Total length of storm drains in the city, January 1, 1915
526,366.0 feet, = 99.691 miles. (30.597 miles separate system sewer.) 47,610.9 feet, = 9.017 miles.
Total length of the city drainage system, January 1, 1915
108.708 miles.
Total length of Met. sewerage system mains running through the city . 3.475 miles.
Excavation.
yard, Rock.
Main
Sewer.
Sub-
drain.
Sub-drain
0.20
0.16
0.06
0.42
89.09
89.09
North street, (storm-drain) *Powder House boulevard
Angle manhole, 1908 near Leonard street
Bartholomew Burke
Sand
4.3) 13.5
.North street, sew.
Mystic avenue
.
+1.36
Lumber.
lineal foot.
NAME OF STREET.
4.00
15
-
391
ČÍTY ENGINEER.
priations will allow. The construction of the storm drainage system commenced in the vicinity of North Somerville, where buildings and new streets are being rapidly con- structed, should continue, the outlet for this district being through the city of Medford into the Mystic river; and in connection therewith, the boundary line between Somerville and Medford should be changed in the vicinity of Pearson road and Boston avenue, so that this outlet, Two Penny Brook, can be improved by Somerville, and the covered channel extended to the Boston & Maine railroad, to con- form with the work already done within the present city limits.
A large storm overflow drain has been contemplated for some time at the East Cambridge line, across private lands from Somerville avenue, discharging into the head of Miller's river ; and this matter of improving the city's drain- age system should be carried out without further delay.
Some agreement should be made whereby a storm drain and sewers may be constructed in the valley along the loca- tion of the Southern division of the Boston & Maine rail- road, between Gilman square and Cedar street, this being the natural outlet for a number of the city's streets and house lots, which at the present time have either very poor or no means of drainage, and would abolish two syphons under the railroad tracks.
This work, if completed, would be of great benefit to the railroad company, and give relief to sections of the city's overcharged drainage system during heavy storms by divert- ing through this proposed conduit the proper drainage area which is now flowing in other directions.
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