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Int., Notes $38,000 New Town Home
1,572.50
Int., account of Monatiquot River Bridge Assessment 493.89
Discount, Notes $350,000 in anticipation of Revenue 5,756.86
Total expended 20,699.50
Balance to Treasury
1,300.50
Total
Appropriation, March 2, 1925
$22,000.00 $22,000.00
Reserve Fund:
Appropriation, March 3, 1925
$10,00.00
Transferred to appropriation as follows:
August 19,925
225.00
To Miscellaneous Account
September 24, 1925:
To School Department 7,300.00
To Police Department 465.00
To Washington St. account
397.24
To Miscellaneous Account
325.00
December 16, 1925:
To Charities
1,187.76
To Town Offices Account
100.00
Total $10,000.00
Note and Bond Retirement:
Notes due May 1, 1925 4,000.00
Bonds due July 1, 1925
2,000.00
Notes due July 1, 1925
19,000.00
Notes due Aug. 1, 1925
4,000.00
Bonds due Oct. 1, 1925
4,000.00
Notes due Nov. 1, 1925
5,000.00
Bonds due Dec. 1, 1925
2,000.00
Total expended 40,000.00
Appropriations in tax levy 35,000.00
From Sinking Fund 5,000.00
Total 40,000.00
266
Notes payable in Anticipation of Revenue Total appropriation Total payments
350,000.00 350,000.00
Unpaid Bills Account:
Election Expenses
16.00
Fire Department
699.96
Health Department
590.29 ·
Street Department
372.88
Broad Street Macadam
415.26
Shawmut Street
216.60
Charities
80.00
Libraries
81.21
Printing and Advertising
1,023.84
Miscellaneous Account
50.00
Total
$3,546.04
Appropriation, March 2, 1925
3,302.60
Appropriation, Nov. 2, 1925
243.44
Total
$3,546.04
State and County Liabilities:
State Tax
38,280.00
Met. Planning Division
194.01
Pilgrim Tercentennary Metropolitan Parks Tax:
230.18
For Sinking Fund
.| 379.35
For Interest
2,865.12
· For Maintenance
9,637.86
For Serial Bonds
452.88
13,335.21
Charles River Basin Tax:
For Interest
710.26
For Maintenance
1,302.26
For Serial Bond
64.20
2,076.72
Nantasket, Maintenance
499.45
Wellington Bridge Maintenance
26.40
Repairs of State Highway Tax
4,557.50
Corporation Tax, Refund
3,169.20
County Tax
30,231.24
Total
92,599.91
Appropriation in tax levy 89,200.53
From General Revenue, August 35.71
From General Revenue, November
230.18
From General Revenue, December
3,133.49
Total 92,599.91
F!
267
Abatement and Remittance of Taxes: Appropriation for Abatements and Remittances: Balance from 1924 14,891.65
In Tax Levy for 1923 abatements 312.82
Overlay and reassessments 1925
11,615.50
Total 26,819.97
Abatement of 1920 Taxes
190.15
Abatecent of 1922 Taxes
271.02
Abatement of 1923 Taxes
885.78
Abatement of 1924 Taxes
542.82
Abatement of 1925 Taxes
2,493.09
Remittance of 1924 Taxes
44.38
Remittance of 1925 Taxes
146.90
Transfer to Overlay Reserve Fund:
1919 account
210.92
1920 account
851.42
1921 account
34.53
1922 account
2,345.25
3,442.12
Total
8,016.26
Balance, Dec. 31, 1925
18,803.71
Tax Deed Account:
Balance due from 1924
$4,328.66
Less received in 1925
79.64
Balance
4,249.02
Amount paid in 1925
226.69
Total
4,475.71
SUMMARY
Total expended for the year
$1,233,378.50
Less items transferred (not cash)
Abatements
4,382.86
Overlay Reserve Fund
3,442.12
Street Department
9,156.42
Reserve Fund
10,000.00
26,981.40
Balance
1,206,397.10
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1925
170,604.97
(Ledger Balance)
1,377,002.07
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS, 1925
Appropriation and Receipts
Expended
Balance to Treasury
Balance Unexpended
General Salaries
$20,967.00
$20,877.22
$ 89.78
Town Survey
1,650.00
1,650.00
Bound Stones
300.00
300.00
Election Expenses
688.00
515.45
172.55
Office Expenses
2,250.00
2,244.38
5.62
Police
34,452.30
33,975.76
476.54
Traffic Officer-Lovell's Corner
500.00
500.00
Pensions-Police
152.50
152.50
Fire
28,270.00
28,117.60
152.40
Ladder Truck Etc.
2,500.00
8,500.00
Moth Suppression
5,600.00
4,253.35
1,346.65
Tree Account
1,236.00
1,229.30
6.70
Health Department
4,500.00
4,449.93
50.07
Nurses
1,000.00
1,000.00
Dental Clinic
1,000.00
975.00
25.00
County T. B. Hospital
4,578.68
4,578.68
Highway Repairs
J2,981.42
92,976.23
5.19
Permanent Sidewalks
5,000.00
4,556.03
443.97
Babcock Avenue
800.00
796.46
3.54
Evans Street
7,100.00
7,099.06
.94
Signs & Guide Boards
1,000.00
1,000.00
Forest Street
1,200.00
1,191.02
8.98
Permanent Construction
15,000.00
15,000.00
Johnson Road
1,000.00
1,000.00
Pecksuot Road
3,000.00
2,997.83
2.17
Shaw Road
400.00
399.24
.76
Pond Street
2,500.00
2,499.58
.42
268
Sachem Street & Birchbrow Ave
2,500.00
2,499.31
.69
Winter Street
600.00
596.85
3.15
Pine Circle & Great Pond Road
800.00
792.03
7.97
Cor. Pleasant & Washington
300.00
300.00
Thicket Street
1,000.00
999.42
.58
Front Street
1,000.00
999.39
.61
Summer Street
1,500.00
1,487.94
12.06
Prospect Street-Gutters
800.00
799.07
.93
Broad Street-Drain
350.00
349.62
38
Washington Street
9,397.24
9,395.52
1.72
Hollis Street-Drain
2,000.00
2,000.00
Randolph Street
200.00
174.36
25.64
Jackson Square Plot
500.00
500.00
Street Lighting
18,500.00
18,224.07
275.93
Charities
27,432.76
27,413.27
19.49
State & Military Aid
2,000.00
1,717.00
283.00
Soldiers' Relief
3,500.00
3,378.54
121.46
Marking Graves-1812 Soldiers
110.00
110.00
Schools
257,300.00
257,266.91
33.09
Smith-Hughes Fund
441.46
421.04
20.42
Legion Memorial Field
10,906.00
2,859.43 ·
8,046.57
Humphrey Schoolhouse Field
1,000.00
998.14
1.86
New School-North Weymouth
135,000.00
53,129.50
81,870.50
Athletic Field Committee
180.70
180.70
Parks & Playgrounds
1,450.00
1,414.92
35.08
Beals Park-Special
174.19
Maint. Laban Pratt Fountain
170.81
Libraries
15,109.80
14,899.52
210.28
Printing and Advertising
4,880.00
4,094.75
785.25
Miscellaneous Expenses
6,958.19
6,580.17
378.02
Memorial Day
500.00
468.68
31.32
Lenora Herbert Fund
75.38
30.00
45.38
Alewive Account
900.00
863.30
36.70
Sign-Frederick Wells Polley Sq.
60.00
49.47
10.53
269
174.19
170.81
Reimbursement-Dr. K. H. Granger
420.00
420.00
Com .- Coll. of Garbage
500.00
179.25
320.75
Com .- Zoning
200.00
200.00
Planning Board
100.00
100.00
Monatiquot River Bridge Assessment
51,000.00
51,000.00
Interest and Discount
22,000.00
20,699.50
1,300.50
Reserve Fund
10,000.00
10,000.00
Note and Bond Retirement
391,623.00
390,000.00
1,623.00
Unpaid Bills
3,546.04
3,546.04
State and County Liabilities
92,599.91
92,599.91
Abatement & Remittance-1919
210.92
210.92
Abatement & Remittance-1920
1,041.57
1,041.57
Abatement & Remittance-1921
34.53
34.53
Abatement & Remittance-1922
2,616.27
2,616.27
Abatement & Remittance-1923
398.76
885.78
×492.02
Abatement & Remittance-1924
10,907.42
587.20
10,320.22
Abatement & Remittance-1925
11,615.50
2,639.99
8,975.51
--
$1,352,031.35
$1,233,378.50
$6,910.25
$111,742.60
270
*Overdraft
....
EMERSON R. DIZER, Town Accountant
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH Balance Sheet-December 31, 1925 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Cash :
Trust Fund Income:
Town Treasurer
$170,604.97
Water Department 20,036.36
Laban Pratt Fountain Fund
....
$
170.81
E. S. Beals Park Fund
.
.
174.19
$
345.00
Lenora Herbert Fund (Charity) $ 45.38
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes:
Levy of 1923 $ 1,122.60
Levy of 1924 20,302.77
Levy of 1925
121,667.20
Special Assessments:
Moth, 1924
$ 54.00
Moth 1925
438.35
Sidewalk, 1924
. 434.15
Sidewalk, 1925
659.57
$ 1,586.07
Tax Titles
Departmental
$ 12,551.65
$100,235.42
Tax Title Reserve
FA 4,475.71
Water Department:
Water Rates $ 12,278.88
Tailings Account $ 88.54
Water Construction 6,559.54
$ 18,838.42
Departmental Revenue-Town
$ 14,137.27
.
.
$ 4,475.71 General $ 92,548.51
Water Department
7,686.91
$ 13,285.22
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
Overlay-Reserved for Abatements:
Levy of 1924
$ 10,320.22
Levy of 1925
8,975.51
$19,295.73
Unexpended Balances:
Sale of Real Estate, Chap. 303, Acts 1923 ...
$
9,667.35
$190,641.33
Overdrawr. Accounts: Overlay, 1923
$
492.02
Loans Authorized:
Water
$
5,000.00
$376,677.77
Surplus Revenue: General $178,913.83 Water Deepartment 36,187.87
$215,101.70
$376,677.77
DEBT STATEMENT January 1, 1926
Assessors' Valuation for the year 1923
$16,426,435.00 110,365.00
Less Abatements to December 31, 1925
$16,316,070.00
Assessors' Valuation for the year 1924 21,164,580.00
Less Abatements to December 31, 1925
61,350.00
$21,103,230.00
Assessors' Valuation for the year 1925 $30,774,030.00
Less Abatements to December 31, 1925
117,305.00
$30,656,725.00
Gross net valuation for 3 years Average valuation
$68,076,025.00
$22,692,008.33
3 per cent.
$ 680,760.25
Total debt of all kinds incurred and outstanding $ 538,000.00
Less debts outside debt limit:
Water Bonds, Acts 1914, Chap. 353 .. $43,000.00 Water Bonds, Acts 1913, Chap 276 .. 15,000.00
Water Notes, General Laws 36,000.00
Tuberculosis Hospital Bonds 8,000.00
Monatiquot River Bridge Notes . 40,000.00
$ 142,000.00
Total debt, within debt limit $ 396,000.00 Less sinking funds applicable debt within limit 4,843.35
Net debt in determining debt limit $ 391,156.65
Borrowing capacity as of December 31, 1925
289,603.60
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EMERSON R. DIZER, Town Accountant
273
1926
DEBT ACCOUNTS
42 7655.68
Net General Debt
$439,156.65-
Humphrey Schoolhouse-Loan
$ -5,000.00
Nevin Schoolhouse Loan
24,000.00
Norfolk County Hospital Loan
8,000.00
-1921 Macadam Pavement Loan
4,000.00
Water
$ -94,000.00>
. .922 Macadam Pavement Loan
-8,000:00
High School Addition Loan
-224,000.00
New Town Home Loan
36,000:00
North Weymouth Schoolhouse Loan .
95,000.00
Monatiquot River Bridge Loan ·
40,000.00
Water Loan-Nov. 1, 1914
43,000:00
-Water Loan-April 1, 1917
1,000.00
Water. Loan-July 1, 1917
~3,000.00-
Water Loan-May 1, 1921
11,000.00 ·
Water Loan-May 1, 1924
-8,000:00
Water Loan-Oct. 1, 1924
-9,000:00
14,000
Water Loan-April 1, 1925
-15,000.00
Water Loan-April 1, 1925
-4,000.00
3000
3
$538,000.00
May 1, 1926
$538,000.00
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101,500
..
90.0000
32,000
wash og with Loom
-4,843.35
429,100.00
Sinking Fund (Humphrey School- 44.32
house)
$444,000.00
2. v-01
10,000
PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNT
Property
Street Location
Land Area in sq. ft.
Land Value
Value of Buildings
Value of Personal
Total
Town Offices
Broad
$6,000.00
6,000.00
Police Department:
Station 1
Athens
2,000
$100.00
2,600.00
100.00
2,800.00
Station 2
Pleasant
4,000
1,000.00
14,650.00
2,000.00
17,650.00
Garage
Pleasant
1,350.00
1,350.00
2,700.00
Fire Department:
Engine House 1
Athens
6,300
400.00
8,250.00
3,250.00
11,900.00
Engine House 2
Broad
7,600
500.00
9,300.00
13,150.00
22,950.00
Engine House 3
Washington
3,200
800.00
6,900.00
4,600.00
12,300.00
Engine House 5
Pleasant
4,800
725.00
9,300.00
4,600.00
14,625.00
Fire Alarm System
7,500.00
7,500.00
; malers Department
Pleasant
1,000.00
1,000.00
Moth Department:
Spraying Machines, etc.
3,000.00
3,000.00
Headquarters
Commercial
19,845 1,000.00
14,600.00
27,452.80
43,052.80
Stone Crusher Building
Wharf
1,000.00
1,000.00
Poor Department:
Essex
1,947,700 6,700.00
34,000.00
3,484.98
44,184.98
Barn and Silo
7,200.00
1,000.00
8,200.00
Out Building's
1,500.00
50.00
1,550.00
School Department:
High School
Middle
247,400
4,500.00
380,000.00
30,000.00
105,500.00
Athens School
Athens
23,000
1,500.00
96,000.00
8,000.00
414,500.00
Adams School
Church
7,500
500.00
8,550.00
800.00
9,850.00
Jefferson School
Middle
20,300
1,300.00
29,800.00
. 3,000.00
34,100.00
Franklin School
Broad
36,900
3,000.00
23,400.00
2,500.00
28,900.00
Washington School
Commercial
24,400
2,000.00
34,500.00
3,000.00
39,500.00
275
Highway Department:
Town Home
James Humphrey
School
Lake
186,800 155,700
3,000.00 3,450.00
79,700.00 93,700.00 19,200.00
8,000.00 10,000.00
107,150.00
Old Hunt School
Broad
2,000.00
21,200.00
Lincoln School
Broad
10,300.00
800.00
11,100.00
Pratt School
Pleasant
134,100
700.00
22,500.00
4,500.00
27,700,00
Shaw School
Main
33,700
1,100.00
25,200.00
3,600.00
29,900.00
Edward B. Nevin
Main
120,876
4,000.00
80,000.00
1,200.00
85,200.00
Pond School
Pond
22,500
300.00
4,695.00
700.00
5,695.00
Hollis School
Randolph
13,100
350.00
3,350.00
3,700.00
Portable School
Middle
3,000.00
3,000.00
Portable School
Athens
3,000.00
800.00
3,800.00
Portable School
Pleasant
4,500.00
4,500.00
No. Weymouth School
Bridge
296,847 5,440.00
53,000.00
58,440.00
Libraries:
Tufts Library
Washington
5,200
2,600.00
70,950.00
40,000.00
113,550.00
North Weymouth Branch
Sea
2,000.00
2,000.00
East Weymouth Branch
Broad
1,500.00
1,500.00
Great Hill Park
Neck
308,067
3,500.00
3,500.00
Beals Park
Sea
145,810
5,000.00
5,000.00
Legion Memorial Field
Commercial
557,500
3,000.00
3,000.00
Webb Park
Summitt
254,000
2,000.00
2,000.00
Lovells Corner Playground
Pleasant
122,803
500.00
500.00
Hawes Grove
Pleasant
235,200
600.00
600.00
Bayley Green
Columbian Square
4,000
100.00
100.00
Alewife Fishery
Commercial
3,400
1,000.00
500.00
25.00
1,525.00
Lot of Land
Cor. Norton & North
12,400
100.00
100.00
Lot of Land
Wessagusett
3,800
200.00
200.00
Lot of Land
Essex
41,500
50.00
50.00
Lot of Land
Broad
32,900
200.00
200.00
Lot of Land
Jackson Square
4,000
200.00
200.00
Town Hall Lot
Pleasant
14,565
2,000.00
2,000.00
Lot of Land
Broad
48,700
200.00
200.00
276
90,700.00
New Hunt School
Broad
Park Department:
Gibbens Lot
Gibbens
18,200
450.00
450.00
Front Street Lot
Front
9,600
100.00
100.00
Old Town House Lot
Washington
49,100
450.00
450.00
Island-Great Pond
Great Pond
1,800
100.00
100.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Flag Staffs and Flag Poles
625.00
625.00
Fences, Gates and Snow Fences
500.00
500.00
Water Department:
Broad
3,000.00
11,998.47
14,998.47
Pumping Station
Hollis
136,800
550.00
14,500.00
10,000.00
25,050.00
Storgae Shed
Hollis
1,600.00
50.00
1,650.00
400.00
50.00
450.00
Stand Pipe
Reed Avenue
28,500
400.00
12,000.00
12,400.00
Tenement House
Near Great Pond.
1,562,500
6,000.00
4,500.00
10,500.00
Land
Hollis Street
90,500
200.00
200.00
Land
Randolph
9,300
100.00
100.00
Water Mains, Pipees, etc.
736,730.35
763,730.35
277
7,018,713 71,965.00 1,192,495.00 988,916.60 2,253,376.60
Band Stands, Brick and Frame
Shop Building
Emergency Pump House
Hollis
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds: Cash and Securities
$375,628.59. 389,200.40
Tufts Fund, Free Public Lectures
$ 5,000.00
Tufts Fund, Free Public Lectures, Income
1,995.42235%6
Tufts Fund, Reading Room
2,500.00 -
Tufts Fund, Books .
2,500.00 -
Tufts Fund, Sidewalk and Shade Trees
2,000.00 -
Tufts Fund, Sidewalk and Shade Trees, Income Tufts Fund, Care Tufts Tomb
263.07 16% 45 500.00-
John C. Rhines Fund
762.52 10,000.
John C. Rhines Fund, Income
-762.52
1,29250
Elias S. Beals Fund, Beals Park
1,000.00 - 400.00-
Laban Pratt Hospital Bequest
Laban Pratt Hospital Bequest, Income
300,000 00 - 2,724.95 16,676.8
Augustus J. Richards Library Fund
5,000.00 -
Joseph E. Trask Library Fund
12,805.88 -
Susannah Hunt Stetson Library Fund
·
2,500.00 -
Tirrell Donation Library Fund
1,000.00 -
Francis Flint Forsyth Library Fund ..
1,000.00 ~
Weymouth Back River Bridge Fund Clinton F. Pope Fund .
3,000.00
H. S. Moody Land Co. Fund, Water N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Co., bonds, Water · 17,000.00
.. 2,500.00
$375,628.59
$375,628.59
.
·
.
·
1,176.75
Laban Pratt Fountain Fund
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ACCOUNT
Land
$71,965.00
Real and Personal Property
$2,253,376.60 Buildings
1,192,495.00
Personal Property
988,916.60
1
1
$2,253,376.60
$2,253,376.60
1
A
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Water Department
OF THE
Town of Weymouth
1925
283
REPORT OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS
January 1, 1926
The Board organized March 25, 1925 with the election of Frank W. Torrey as chairman, George E. Bicknell, clerk and John H. Stetson, treasurer.
The following appointments for the current year were made: Supt. Fred O. Stevens; pumping engineer, George W. Sargent; reg- ister and collector, Marshall T. Tirrell and pond officer, Willie B. Loud.
Jointly with the Selectmen, Emerson R. Dizer was appointed Town Accountant.
A careful reading of the detailed report as submitted by the Superintendent, will fully satisfy anyone that our reports of 1923 and 1924 were not imaginative but real facts and will bear reitera- tion at the present time.
We request the following appropriations from our income of the coming year:
Maintenance and Operation
$26,000.00
Replarement
3,000.00
Replacement
3,000.00
Commercial Expenses
6,500.00
General Salaries
1,200.00
Interest
4,685.00
Bond Retirement
12,500.00
Minor Construction
22,000.00
$78.885.00
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. TORREY,
GEORGE E. BICKNELL,
GEORGE W. PERRY,
FRED E. WAITE,
JOHN H. STETSON,
Commissioners.
REPORT OF REGISTRAR AND COLLECTOR
January 1, 1926 Water Account
Bal. due Jan. 1, 1925
$17,964.05
Charges Jan. 1, 1925 -- Jan. 1, 1926 74,731.21
Credit $92,695.26
Received by Collector $78,010.34
Abatements
2,406.04
Ba. due Jan. 1, 1926
12,278.88
$92,695.26
Paid to Treasurer
78,010.34
Material and Labor
Bal. due Jan. 1, 1925 $ 3,352.46 Charges Jan. 1, 1925-Jan. 1, 1926 18,296.44 $21,648.90
284
Credit
Received by Collector $15009.56
Abatements . . 79.80
Balance due Jan. 1, 1926
. 6,559.54 $21,648.90
Paid to Treasurer
15,009.56
Respectfully submitted, MARSHALL T. TIRRELL, Registrar and Collector
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
To the Board of Water Comissioners:
The following tables and summaries, covering in detail the work of the department for the year ending Dec. 31, 1925, are re- spectfully submitted.
FRED O. STEVENS,
Superintendent
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS Year Ending December 31, 1925 In form recommended by New England Waterworks Association. Weymouth Waterworks. Weymouth, Mass. Population, 1925 Winter, 17,200; Summer, 20,800*
Date of construction: 1885.
By whom owned: Town of Weymouth.
Source of Supply: Weymouth Great Pond.
Mode of Supply: Pumping to reservoir and gravity.
Capacity of reservoir: 700,000 gallons.
PUMPING STATISTICS.
1. Pumping Machinery.
No. 1. Allis-Chalmers Single Stage Centrifugal Pump, driven by 70 H. P. G. E. Motor.
No. 2. Worthington 2 Stage Centrifugal Pump, driven by 70 H. P. G. E. Motor. No. 3. Blake Duplex Compound Pumping Engine. No. 4. Deane Duplex Compound Pumping Engine.
Capacity of Pumps: No. 1. 1,700,000 gals per 24 hours.
No. 2. 1,400,000 gals. per 24 hours. No. 3. 1,500,000 gals. per 24 hours. No. 4. 1,500,000 gals. per 24 hours.
2, Total pumpage for year with Steam Pumps, None.
3. Electric current used 147,211 K. W. H.
4. Total pumpage for year with electric pumps 188,375,825 gals.
5. Average static lift of pumps, 108 ft.
6. Average total lift of pumps, 154 ft.
7. Cost of current per million gallons, $24.78
8. Cost per million gallons raised one foot, $0.161.
9. Cost of pumping per million gallons based on total expense, $40.24.
*Estimated.
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STATISTICS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION Mains
1. Kind of Pipe: Cast iron, wrought iron, lead and lead lined.
2. Sizes: From one inch to fourteen inches.
3. Extended: 15,489.2 ft.
4. Replaced small wrought iron with cast iron, 688.0.
5. Total now in use, 90.202 miles.
(Includes flushing and care of hydrants and all maintenance chargeable to distribution system.)
6. Length of pipes less than 4 inches in diameter, 19,71 miles. (Mostly summer lines.)
7. Number of hydrants added during year, 6.
8. Number of hydrants now in use, 480.
9. Number of stop-gates added durng year, 22.
10.
Number of stop-gates now in use, 721.
11. Number of stop-gates smaller than 4 inches, 128.
12. Number of blowoffs, 19.
13. Range of static pressure on mains, 18 to 105 pounds. Services
14. Kind of pipe: Cast iron, cement lined, wrought iron, lead and lead lined.
15. Sizes 34 inch to 8 inches.
16. Extended, 6802 ft.
17. Discontinued, none.
18. Total in use, 21.29 miles.
19. Number of services added, 380.
20. Total services Dec. 31, 1925, 5,480.
21. Average length of services added during year, 17.9 ft.
22. Number of meters added, 295; discontinued none.
23. Number of meters now in use, 3,126.
24. Percentage of service metered, 57.1
STATISTICS OF CONSUMPTION
1. Population : Winter 17,200 Summer 20,800 Average 18,400
2. Total consumption for 1925: 441,946,125 gals.
3 Average daily consumption: 1,210,811 gals.
4. Gallons per day per capita: 65.8.
5. Total through commercial meters: 51,878,025 gals.
6. Domestic consumption, (2)-(5): 390,068,100 gals.
7. Gals. per day per capita based on (6), 56.8.
8. Total through meters: 143,722,575.
9. 9. Per cent accounted for by meters: 30.3.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS-DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EALTH Weymouth Great Pond Water Analysis. (Parts in 100,000)
APPEARANCE
RESIDUE ON EVAPORATION
AMMONIA
Albuminoi
NUMBER
Turbidity
Sediment
Color
Total
Loss on Ignition
Fixed
Free
Total
In Solution
In Suspension
Chlorine
Hardness
Iron
1924
180182
Dec. 9 v slight v slight .25 4.30 1925
1.70
2.60
.0020
.0140
.0110
.0030
.45
1.0 .024
Great Pond
181386
Mar. 8
none v slight
.31
5.00
1.80
3.20
.0012
.0146
182727
May 27 v slight
slight
.27
3.65
1.60
2.05
.0020
.0140
.0102 .0102
.0044 .0038
.46
1.1
.020
.42
Great Pond Great Pond
Date of collection
SOURCE
286
TABLE 2-MONTHLY CONSUMPTION FOR 1925
CONSUMPTION
Total
High Service System (gals.)
Gravity System (gals.)
Total (gals.)
Pumped (gals.)
Total 1924 Pumped (gals.)
January
12,952,073
22,610,000
35,562, 073
13,506,073
14,352,700
February
11,940,189
19,853,000
31,793,189
12,102,189
12,706,200
March
12,946,063
21,742,000
34,688,063
13,060,363
13,170,560
April
13,928,600
22,490,000
36,418,600
14,266,600
12,705,000
May
16,382,400
22,605,000
38,987,400
16,981,700
13,358,300
June
19,441;600
24,040,000
43,481,600
21,994,200
14,992,600
July
18,655,700
25,730,000
44,385,700
22,212,800
24,045,300
August
14,947,800
25,170,000
40,117,800
17,243,500
19,801,500
September
14,558,000|
23 530,000
38,088,000
16,295,000
13,250,700
October
13,123,500
19,815,000
32,938,500
13,502,500
13,774,400
November
13,292,000
18,990,000
32,282,000
13,510,600
13,495,560
December
13,378,200
19,625,000
33,203,200
13,700,300
13,687,000
Total
175,746,125
266,200,000
441,946,125
188,375,825
178,340,620
Daily Average
481,496
729,315
1,210,811
516,098
488,600
Daily Maximum
795,000
1,050,000
1,755,000
1,174,000
1,091,000
287
1
288
TABLE 3 METERS IN USE DECEMBER 31, 1925
SIZE
MAKE
58
3/4
1 11/2
2
3
4
6
10 Total
Trident
823
1
1
2
827
Keystone
597
1
508
Nask K
300
Nash 9
37
37
Nash 7
1
1
King
229
4
6
1
4
244
Hersey
464
1
6
7
1
3
2
484
Worthington 21
21
Watch dog 399
399
Arctic
201
201
Empire
2
2
2
2
2
2
12
Premier
1
1
Crown
1
Total
3074
7
8
11
15
1
7
2
1
3126
Total Dec. 31, 1924
2785
7
7
10
13
1
5
2
1
2831
TABLE 4-PERMANENT PIPE LAID AND GATES AND HYDR ANTS SET IN 1925
W. I. and STEEL
Gates
LOCATION
12 in. Cast Iron
10 in. Cast Iron
8 in. Cast Iron
6 in. Cast Iron
2 Inch
11/2 Inch
12 Inch
10 Inch
6 Inch
4 Inch
2 Inch
112 Inch
Hydrants
Brook Terrace
288.0
138.0 210.0
1
From Pierce Rd. So. From Torrey St. W. From Pr's'ts Rd. So.
Evans Street
498.0
1
Fairlawn Ave.
651.0
1
Forest Street
376.0
1
Genevieve Street
279.0
Gibbons Street
223.0
Great Pond Road
205.0
From End of Line, S.
Harding Ave.
742.0
2
1
From Comm'l St. So.
Hilldale Ave.
315.0
244.0
1
From Pond St. W.
Kirkman Road
176.0
124.0
1 From End of Line W.
James Street
304.0
71
1
1 From Commercial to Genevieve From Pine Circle, W.
I akewood Road
192.4
307.0
1
Main Street (North)
706.0
1
1 From No. 990 to 960.
Main Street (South
210.0
Manomet Road
192.3
Oakcrest Road
229.6
Orlando Ave.
258.0
Partridge Road
193.7
1
1 From Wessagusset Rd. South From Lakewood Rd. S From Bridge St. W. From Gt. Pond Rd. E
Burton Terrace
1
Coolidge Avc
980.0
1
1
1 Fr'm Brewster Rd. to Delorey Ave. From Pr'nc't'n Av. E. From Hollis St. No. From James St. From Summit St. N.
682
.
Pine Street
2685
2
Presidents Road
951.0
1
Princeton Ave.
511.6
1
Private Land 1319
Ralph Talbot St. 647.0
1
1
Roosevelt Ave.
276.7
1
Swan Ave.
222.5
Summit Street
83.7
Sunny Plain St.
287.5
208.2
1
.
Washington Street Total
4651.0
498.0 376.0
5,870.6
3,901.3
192.33
3
1 13
1 3
1
6
Total Pipe, 15,489.2 feet.
Gates 22.
Hydrants, 7.
From Cemetery Gate Pleasant street From Harding Ave. to Commercial From Bridge St. So. From Ralph Talbot to Pine
184.0
To Old Swamp Riv'r. From Broad St. No. From End of Line W. From End of Line E. From West St. North
290
291
TABLE 5
DISTRIBUTION PIPES AND GATES LAID TO DEC. 31,1925
Size
Cast Iron Pipe
W. I and Steel Pipe
Lead Pipe
Lead Lined Pipe
Pipe
Gates
20 in.
250.0
1
18 in.
2,092.5
. . .
. . .
1
14 in.
20,679.5
. . . .
. . . .
. . .
12
12 in.
26,942.8
.. ....
. . . .
. . . .
. . .
32
10 in.
35,429.2
. . . . . . . .
. . . .
. . . .
. . .
42
in
45,411.0
. . . . . . . .
.. . .
. . . .
. . .
74
6 in.
219,807.3
. . . . . . . .
. . . .
. . . .
4 in.
21,456.1
45
2 in.
51,929.0
. .. .
. .. .
. . .
67
11/2 in.
28,233.1
. . . .
....
. ..
3
1 in.
16,909.1
526.3
131.0
88.0
11
.Total
372,068.4
103,563.1
526.3
131.0
88.0
721
Total number of feet Total number of miles
476,376.80 90.202
Gates
721
Check Valves
7
Hydrants
480
Blow-offs, 6 in.
7
Air Valves
9
Blow-offs, 4 in.
12
.
. . .
386
. . . .
. .. .
. . .
47
1.14 in.
6,491.9
·
...
Cement Lined
292
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
East Weymouth, Mass., January 1, 1926 To the Board of Water Commissioners: Gentlemen:
Herewith is submitted the twenty-fourth annual report of the Accounting Department showing the receipts and expenditures on account of the Water Department for the year ending December 31 1925.
In order to have the classification of accounts conform more closely to that required by the State and the New England Water Works Association, several changes will be noted in this report.
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