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At the annual meeting in March 1945 the Town au- thorized the Water Commissioners to arrange for an engineering survey of the Water Department. The firm of Metcalf and Eddy was employed to do this work and their final report was received in October. It is a com- prehensive study of the entire department, covering the broad questions of supply, pumping, storage and distri- bution. The report is at considerable length and we quote below only the summary of the recommendations. The entire report should be consulted for complete information.
Extract from the Report of Metcalf and Eddy
Summary of Recommendations. A summary of our recommendations covering a comprehensive plan for the future improvement of the water supply and distribution systems follows. The various items are arranged approxi- mately in the order of importance as viewed at the present time. Some changes in this order undoubtedly will be- come necessary as local circumstances dictate or the character of the development changes. An estimate of cost of each improvement is also given.
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Improvements in the Immediate Future
1. Change the suction piping at the Lout Pond pumping station in order to eliminate the present surge tank. Bid received, $4,000.
2. Develop a ground water supply of at least 0.5 m.g.d. in the Manomet area, thus making this district independent of the Great and Little South Pond supply.
Estimated cost, $30,000.
3. Install chlorinators in the Lout Pond pumping station for the Low Service and High Service supplies. Estimated cost, $3,500.
4. Install a 400,000-gallon elevated storage tank on the site of the Porter Harlow elevated tank in Manomet. Estimated cost, $38,000.
5. Abandon the low service supply in its entirety and install new cast iron mains in all streets now served only by the low service.
Estimated cost, $48,600.
(See Appendix F.)
Improvements in the Near Future
1. Improve the fire flow conditions in the deficient areas of the High Service, eliminate all 4-inch pipe now serving hydrants and install larger mains.
Estimated cost for all such improvements, $114,300. (See Appendix F.)
2. Improve fire flow conditions in the deficient areas of the Extra High Service, and increase storage to 500,000 gallons.
Estimated cost of pipe replacements, $10,300. (See Appendix F.)
Estimated cost of new storage, $48,000.
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3. Replace the existing 6-inch pipe in Warren Avenue with 10-inch pipe.
Estimated cost, $23,000.
4. Replace the existing 8-inch pipe from Standish Avenue to the Cherry Street standpipe with 10-inch pipe. Estimated cost, $11,200.
5. Remove 16-inch cement pipe from Little South Pond to Lout Pond pumping station and install a 24-inch cast iron, cement-lined pipe.
Estimated cost, $105,000.
Ultimate Improvements
1. Raise the High Service to the pressure of the Extra High Service, which will involve new storage res- ervoir and elevated storage and removal of all jacketed pipe.
(Cost not estimated.)
(End of quotation from report)
Undoubtedly, many years will be required for the carrying-out of all of these recommendations, but the Commissioners believe that the improvements should be started at once, particularly the more urgent matters. The order in which they are undertaken will have the careful consideration of the Commissioners, and will be subject to varying conditions as they arise. The particular projects which we believe should be started this year are referred to later in this report.
GENERAL MAINTENANCE
It is still very difficult to secure needed materials and equipment but we have been able to purchase some items which have been greatly needed, particularly a motor- driven trench pump and a pipe-pushing machine for lay- ing small pipe under paved streets, etc. We have also purchased one of the Civilian Defense trailer pumping units which is a very useful piece of apparatus, especially in emergencies.
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The trucks of the department are very old and expensive to maintain and should be replaced. A dump truck is very much needed to handle excavated material. We are asking the Town for an appropriation for two trucks, one to replace our present service truck and an addi- tional dump body truck.
CHANGES AT THE PUMPING STATION AT LOUT POND
The first recommendation received from Metcalf and Eddy was for certain changes in the supply mains at the Lout Pond Station. Plans were made promptly and orders given to proceed with the work as soon as possible. Some of the new pipe and fittings have been received, but it has not been possible to secure all that is required and the work could not be done in 1945. It is hoped to have it completed early in 1946. As the work was contracted for some months ago the estimated cost of $4,000 has been charged to our appropriation for 1945.
MANOMET
The eight-inch well at Warners Pond was tested in the Spring and found to yield an excellent supply of water with a capacity of 200 gallons per minute. The present pumping equipment at that location will not handle this quantity and the Commissioners believe that a pumping plant should be installed which will do so, to take care of the demand until a larger and permanent plant can be built. The consumption in Manomet is increasing rapidly, during the Summer season, and many new water takers are waiting to be supplied with Town water. We concur in the recommendation of Metcalf and Eddy that work should be started at once to provide a supply of not less than five hundred gallons per minute. Funds for this purpose are included in the appropriation which we are requesting for construction purposes.
If the town accepts the lay-out of Cape Cod Avenue, Reed Avenue and other streets in that vicinity, we believe
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that the Water Department should be prepared to lay mains there as soon as the streets are properly graded. We are asking for a special appropriation of $35,000 for this purpose.
SQUANTO ROAD AND UPPER CHERRY STREET
The Selectmen are also asking for a layout of Squanto Road, connecting Nick's Rock Road, from the end of the present layout across to upper Cherry Street. If this is accepted by the Town and funds are made available, we propose to lay a new main there and in adjacent streets, and to replace some of the old and undersize mains in that area. This district would then be supplied from the New High Service system, which would give much more satisfactory water pressure.
"RUSTOP" SYSTEM INSTALLATION
The Electro "Rustop" equipment, similar to that in- stalled in the water tank on the Westerly Route, has been installed in the Stone Tank on Rocky Hill Road. The work was not completed until many months from the date it was ordered. A considerable period of time will be required before ultimate results can be determined but we believe it will prove to be of great benefit in taking care of rust and corrosion on the inside of the tank.
COLLECTOR OF WATER RATES
The Commissioners have appointed Mr. Harold W. Baker to be the Collector of Water Rates, effective as of January 5, 1946, succeeding Mrs. Addie H. Burgess who retired on that date after over ten years of service to the Town. Under the new arrangement, the collection of Water Bills will be entirely separated from their prepa- ration. Bills will be made out in the office of the Water Department, as they have been, but will be committed on a warrant to the Collector, as in the case of the bills for taxes. It will be a convenience to the public to have water bills payable at the same office as tax bills. The
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office of the Water Department is small and this change will make it possible to have another clerk in the depart- ment, as is very much needed. Collections for the year 1945 are sub-divided as follows:
Town System
$40,810.51
Manomet System
6,629.46
$47,439.97
CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATION
In order to carry out the projects referred to above, namely the additional water supply and pumping equip- ment at Manomet, new mains and replacements in the Cherry Street area and other streets as necessary, and begin the replacement of old and inadequate mains and other improvements as recommended in the Metcalf and Eddy report, we are asking for an appropriation for Water Department construction of one hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars ($150,000.) to be raised by a bond issue repayable over a period of fifteen years.
ยท We recommend the following appropriations for 1946:
General Maintenance, Labor $26,660.00
Salaries 17,000.00
General Construction 3,000.00
Special Construction 150,000.00
Purchase of two trucks 3,500.00
Construction at Cape Cod Ave., Melix Ave.,
Reed Ave., and connecting streets, if these
streets are accepted by the Town 35,000.00
E. R. BELCHER, Chairman
RICHARD T. ELDRIDGE, Secretary DANIEL F. MULCAHY ARTHUR ADDYMAN
C. BROOKS HUDSON
Board of Water Commissioners
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS
(Published by request of the New England Water Works Association, Plymouth, Mass., Water Works.) Population, 13,175.
Date of Construction, 1855.
By whom owned, Town.
Source of Supply, Great and Little South Ponds, and Wells at Manomet.
Mode of Supply, Gravity for Low Service and Pumping for High Service, Wells at Manomet.
PUMPING
Builders of pumping machinery, Fairbanks-Morse and Wolverine-Gould.
Descripion of fuel, Oil.
Amount used, 9,7341/2 gallons.
Pumpage for the year:
Fairbanks-Morse, 164,237,000 gals.
Wolverine-Gould, 171,985,000 gals.
NHS (Electric) 12,844,000 gals.
349,066,000 gals.
Average static head, 68 ft.
Average dynamic head, 74.5 ft.
Number gals. per gal. of fuel oil: Fairbanks-Morse, 38,230
Wolverine-Gould, 31,623
Duty of Pumps:
Fairbanks-Morse, 175,694,100
Wolverine-Gould, 145,304,900
COST OF PUMPING FIGURED ON PUMPING STATION EXPENSES, VIZ: $6,920.07.
Per million gallons against dynamic head into direct pipe, $19.824. Per million gallons raised one foot high (dynamic), $0.2660.
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COST OF PUMPING FIGURED ON TOTAL MAINTENANCE, VIZ: $31,893.99.
Per million gallons against dynamic head into direct pipe, $91.369. Per million gallons raised one foot high (dynamic), $1.226.
STATISTICS ON CONSUMPTION OF WATER
Total population, estimated 13,175.
Estimated population on pipe line, 12,500.
Estimated population supplied, 12,500.
Total consumption for the year, 538,554,000 gallons. Average daily consumption, 1,476,000 gallons. Gallons per day to each inhabitant, 112. Gallons per day to each tap, 412.
STATISTICS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Kind of pipe, Cement-lined sheet iron and Cement-lined cast iron.
Sizes, From 2-inch to 30-inch.
Extended, 1,012 feet.
Discontinued, 592 feet.
Total now in use, 79 miles, 753 feet.
Cost to repair per mile, $8.45.
Number of leaks per mile, 0.239. Small distribution pipe less than 4-inch, 8 miles, 2,831 ft. Hydrants now in use, 334 public; 73 private.
Stop gates added, None. Discontinued, None. Number now in use, 877.
SERVICES
Kind of pipe, Lead and Cement-lined. Sizes, From one-half inch to four inches. Extended, 377 feet. Discontinued, None. Total now in use, 10 miles, 2,065 feet. Service taps added, 24. Discontinued, None.
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Total now in use, 3,576.
Average length of service, 15.7 feet. Average cost per service, $28.79. Number meters added, 51. Number now in use, 2,855.
Percentage of services metered, 79.8%.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the Board of Water Commissioners.
Gentlemen:
The continual gain in being able to obtain Water De- partment material during the past year was most encour- aging and before the end of the year deliveries had been made on many orders that had been held up for months. Thus it was possible to set fifty-one meters in comparison to six the previous year.
420 ft. of 6" cast iron cement-lined pipe was laid at Braley Lane but it was impossible to connect this because the special fittings were not being turned out by the foundry. This connection will be completed as soon as these fittings are obtainable. A new hydrant will be set here, also.
592 ft. of 6" cast iron cement-lined pipe was laid at Royal St., replacing some old 2" galvanized. One hydrant was set at this location.
A 10" main was replaced at the Standish Ave. railroad bridge, where the roadway was widened, and this has eliminated a serious traffic hazard.
Nineteen leaks were repaired in mains and forty in services. It was necessary to drill thirty-two corpor- ations to improve pressure at various services. Twenty- four services were added, sixteen of these being in Mano- met. As in previous years, only the necessary ones were
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given attention on account of the shortage of material. Several applications for services have already been filed for connection the coming year.
Hydrants were painted and the usual inspections car- ried out with the result that all were in condition at the end of the year. It was necessary to repair several broken hydrants.
Both the Fairbanks-Morse and the Wolverine-Gould engine and pumps were overhauled and are in excellent condition, giving fine service.
Auxiliary Well Supply at Manomet was operated 4591/2 hours during June, July, August and September, pump- ing 4,440,600 gallons of water. 920 gals. of gasoline was consumed, as well as 6 gals. of lubricating oil.
Samples from taps and source of supply ponds were submitted as requested by the Department of Public Health, reports of which are on file in the Superintend- ent's office.
The engineering survey of the Water Department by Metcalf & Eddy was a most interesting study and a detailed report on this will be found in the Commissioners' report.
Respectfully submitted,
THEODORE BRINK, Superintendent.
1945 PUMPING RECORDS FAIRBANKS-MORSE
NHS
Month
Hrs. Run
Gals. Fuel Oil
Gals. Pumped
Hrs. Run
Gals. Fuel Oil
Gals. Pumped
Gals. Pumped
GRAVITY in Gals.
RAIN in Inches
AVERAGE TEMP. Max. Min.
January
1273/4
420
13,087,000
105
290
11,036,000
795,000
19,583,000
5.29
29
11
February
1133/4
3771/2
11,677,000
108
299
11,351,000
1,067,000
17,645,000
4.83
32
15
March
118
388
12,461,000
95 1/2
263
10,079,000
964,000
19,964,000
2.64
48
30
April
1143/4
380
12,127,000
1093/4
3031/2
11,533,000
1,001,000
17,197,000
1.94
57
37
May
1173/4
3891/2
12,391,000
134
3471/2
13,989,000
1,077,000
17,124,000
4.25
61
43
June
1431/2
4741/2
15,006,000
1581/2
4361/2
16,475,000
1,396,000
17,431,000
4.55
71
52
July
181
5921/2
18,715,000
169
465
17,581,000
1,443,000
18,940,000
2.85
77
60
August
2031/4
669
20,826,000
1533/4
423
16,062,000
1,415,000
20,082,000
3.31
75
56
September
1671/2
552
17,380,000
1403/4
388
14,509,000
1,126,000
14,364,000
1.78
71
54
October
1303/4
4351/2
13,533,000
152
418
15,708,000
978,000
6,623,000
4.23
56
39
November
1241/4
383 1/2
12,416,000
1221/4
339
13,226,000
841,000
9,717,000
10.42
48
33
December
113
3761/2
12,366,000
1161/4
3231/2
12,688,000
741,000
10,818,000
9.36
31
16
Total
1,6551/4 5,4381/2
171,985,000 1,5643/4 4,296
164,237,000
12,844,000
189,488,000 55.45
Hrs. Run
Gals. Fuel
Gals. Pumped
Wolverine-Gould
1,6551/4
5,4381/2 gals. 4,296
171,985,000
145,304,900
Fairbanks-Morse
1,5643/4
164,237,000
175,694,100
N. H. S. Electric
12,844,000
Total
3,220
9,7341/2 gals.
349,066,000
Gravity
189,488,000
Total Consumption
538,554,000
Duty based on BTU in Fuel 19,500 per lb. fuel oil Head, 74.5 ft.
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WOLVERINE
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ASSESSORS' REPORT 1945
Aggregate Value
$21,817,326.00
Exempted under Clauses 11-17-18-22-23
45,976.00
Available for Revenue
$21,771,350.00
Valuation of Personal $1,791,275.00
Valuation of Real
19,980,075.00
To be raised by taxation:
State Tax
$27,350.85
County Tax
44,110.64
Tuberculosis Hospital
17,311.52
From Available Funds
69,500.00
Town Appropriation
1,056,116.23
Overlay
11,406.27
$1,225,795.51.
Estimated receipts, including:
Dog Tax voted by the Town to be used by Assessors $401,645.77
Out of available funds under approval of Commissioner of
Corporations and Taxation. TOWN MEETING,
March 24, 1945 109,500.00
511,145.77
$714,649.74
Division of Taxes:
January 1 Personal
$58,037.31
January 1 Real Estate
647,354.43
April 1 Polls
9,258.00
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December 31 Additional Polls December 20 Additional Real Rate of Taxation $32.40 on $1,000
10.00
58.32
Warrants to Collector:
Personal Property
$58,037.31
Real Estate
647,412.75
Polls
9,268.00
Moth 86.25
Exempted under Chapter 59,
Sec. 5, General Laws as
Amended.
Houses of Religious Worship
$352,000.00
Charitable, Benevolent, Literary and Edu- cational
776,625.00
Parsonages Exempted
33,050.00
United States of America
124,200.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
183,625.00
County of Plymouth
559,125.00
Town of Plymouth
1,489,650.00
TABLE OF AGGREGATES:
Number of Persons, Firms, and Cor-
porations Assessed on Property
4,780
Polls Assessed 4,639
Polls exempted under Clause 18 21
Polls exempted under Clause 23 11
Polls exempted under Clause 202
Sec. 1, Chap. 59, G. L., Acts of 1936 433
Polls Exempted under Sec. 8 Ch. 58 (Men in Armed Forces)
945
Horses
41
Cows
243
Neat Cattle
52
Swine 103
Sheep
62
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Fowl
13,050
All Others
4
Dwelling Houses
4,308
Acres of Land
48,000
Motor Vehicles and Trailers assessed under Motor Excise and Trailer Law: Value of Motor Vehicles and Trailers Registered $383,660.00
Warrants to Collector: (Motor Excise and Trailer) $12,633.45
State Rate on Motor Vehicles and Trailers, $35.60 on $1,000.
ABATEMENT ACCOUNT
Levy of 1944:
Dec. 31, 1944 Balance
$12,394.75
Dec. 29, 1944 Abatements
Polls
$4.00
Personal 17.94
Real Estate
311.22
$333.16
To Reserve Overlay
12,024.15
12,357.31
$37.44
Levy of 1945:
May 18, 1945 Overlay
$11,406.27
Dec. 29, 1945
Abatements
Polls
$2,976.00
Personal
73.71
Real Estate
1,526.85
4,576.56
$6,829.71
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Reserve Overlay: Dec. 31, 1944 From Overlay of 1944
$34,631.66
12,024.15
$46,655.81
To Reserve Account
12,768.07
$33,887.74
THOMAS L. CASSIDY, GEORGE E. BLACKMER, ROBERT A. CARR, Board of Assessors.
PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LORING LIBRARY
From the annual report submitted to the Board of Directors of the Plymouth Public Library:
BOOKS STOCK
Number of volumes end of 1944
25,982
Volumes added by purchase
955
Volumes added by gift
43
Total
26,980
Volumes lost and withdrawn
1,530
Number of volumes end of 1945
25,450
Number of prints (estimate)
20,000
Periodicals subscribed to
78
Newspapers subscribed to
5
USE
Volumes of non-fiction lent 22,703
Volumes of fiction lent 50,626
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Prints lent 1,182
Volumes lent through 45 school deposits 18,527
Total number of volumes lent
91,856
Percent fiction lent 67.7
Circulation per capita (includes Loring Library) 7.9
REGISTRATION
Number of new borrowers registered
299
Total number of borrowers registered 3,947
Percent of registered borrowers of population
served (includes Loring Library)
37
LORING LIBRARY
Books added 1945 435
USE
Volumes of non-fiction lent
6,158
Volumes of fiction lent 9,773
Total number of volumes lent
15,931
REGISTRATION
Number of new borrowers registered
98
Total number of borrowers registered 1,053
REPORT OF HARBOR MASTER FOR 1945
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
According to my records there was 1,589,000 pounds of fish landed in Plymouth during 1945. 1
Very few visitors were in Plymouth Harbor during 1945, because of war conditions and gasoline rationing.
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Some of the yacht basin has filled in from storms of the past few years, and from the Town Brook.
The required amount of alewives were stocked at Town Brook, Eel River and Manomet Brook.
Dories reported missing 38
Missing dories recovered 28
Total boats in Plymouth Harbor 5,362
Respectfully submitted,
ELMER P. BOUTIN, Harbor Master.
REPORT OF TREE WARDEN'S DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
During the year 1945 nearly all the street trees were sprayed for safety, although the elm beetles were not as plentiful as in former years. No damage was done by gypsy or browntail moths to the street trees.
Trimming was done to more than one hundred of the street trees, and the work will be carried on in the same way in 1946 as much remains to be done.
The department planted twenty-three trees about the town to take the places of the trees that had to be taken down. We plan as many more this year.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN A. KENNEDY, Tree Warden.
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REPORT OF GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
This department managed to get practically all of the gypsy and brown-tail moths cleaned from the residential parts of the town.
Nearly all roads and shore property were sprayed. The moths were not as plentiful as in other years, so we sprayed where it was needed the most.
The brown-tail moth nests were cut and burned throughout the entire town, about five thousand five hun- dred in number.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN A. KENNEDY, Moth Superintendent.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INLAND FISHERIES
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen:
Owing to the labor shortage and the difficulties experi- enced in obtaining transportation, your Committee was unable to carry out its plans for the year 1945 in securing a sufficient number of fish for restocking purposes.
However, several hundred small black bass were liber- ated, but only one hundred dollars of the three hundred dollar appropriation were expended, the balance of two . hundred reverting to the Treasury.
This year your Committee will liberate both bass and yellow perch, and it requests that the sum of three hun- dred dollars be appropriated for that purpose.
Respectfully submitted, FRANK L. BAILEY, Chairman GEORGE L. GOODING HOWARD M. MORTON
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REPORT OF THE TOWN ENGINEER
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
The past year has been an unusually busy one for the Engineering Department.
During 1945 a survey was made of the High School property, and a plan was drawn for acquiring addi- tional land.
Plans and specifications were drawn up for a new sea wall at the Nelson St. Playground.
Surveys were made of Cape Cod Ave., Reed Ave., and Melix Ave. in Manomet.
Surveys and plans were made of South Cherry St., Squanto Rd., and a portion of Nicks Rock Rd. in North Plymouth.
A permit plan was made for a ramp at the State Pier.
A plan was drawn for house numbering on Billington St.
Surveys and plans were made of Boutemain Ave.
Lots at the Town Wharf were staked out.
Miscellaneous engineering work was done for the Board of Assessors.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD CHASE, Town Engineer.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1945
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
The high degree of efficiency is still being maintained as will be seen by the report.
The department answered 466 calls; Box alarms, 206; still alarms, 236; radio alarms, 20.
BUILDINGS
The assessed value of buildings and contents involved by fire was $862,375.00, the loss being $19,685.00 based on 13,000 inhabitants, shows a loss of about 1.38 per person and 2.27 of property involved.
There is still work to be done on the Central Station, as we were unable to get brick work pointed. The North Station should be painted this year.
The work on building in rear of Central Station is complete, and building is in good shape.
FIRE ALARM
The outside lines are in good condition but should be extended south from Cliff Street to junction of Warren Ave. and State Highway.
RADIO
The F.M. sets have been installed and have improved conditions remarkably.
APPARATUS
All apparatus is in good condition.
REPAIR DEPARTMENT
This department has proven to be of immense value, not only to this department, but to the Forest Fire Department, also all repair work of both departments being taken care of.
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ORGANIZATION
Fire Commissioner Henry Walton
Fire Chief
Everett B. Wood
Deputy Chief Clifton B. Hatton
Fire Dept. Surgeon
Dr. William E. Curtin
Chaplain Reverend Ernest Pugh
3 Permanent Captains
1 Call Captain
1 Call Lieutenant
13 Permanent Men
35 Call Men
REPORT OF FIRE DUTY
Miles traveled, 7,893.7; false alarms, 8; rescue boat, 8; E & J resuscitator, 5; feet of hose laid, 28,125 ft. 21/2", 36,460 ft. 3/4", 18,950 ft. 11/2"; water from booster tanks, 49,490 gallons; 189 gallons of chemical; 1,307 feet of ladder used.
OUT OF TOWN CALLS
Kingston 4
Marshfield 1
Assessed Value of Buildings $700,300.00
Value of Contents 162,075.00
$862,375.00
Insurance on Buildings
$726,760.00
Insurance on Contents 43,800.00
$770,560.00
Loss on Buildings
$14,080.00
Loss on Contents 5,605.00
$19,685.00
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Insurance Paid on Buildings
$12,890.00
Insurance Paid on Contents
3,261.00
$16,151.00
HENRY WALTON, Fire Commissioner.
REPORT OF FOREST FIRE WARDEN
Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report for the year 1945.
APPARATUS
Three addiional Army Four-Wheel Drive Trucks were purchased and converted to fire trucks by the repair department of the regular department.
CONDITION OF WOODS
As previously stated the fire hazard in the woods is extremely serious, but it is hoped that with the heavier machines we shall be able to successfully combat the condition.
FIRES
We had 34 Forest Fires this year, that burned a total of 1,307 acres, one of which was 1,200 acres, the balance of 33 fires being an average of 3.14 acres per fire. 28,173 feet of hose laid; gallons of water pumped 27,430; 362 gallons chemical; miles traveled, 3,194.7.
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