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PATROLMEN,
AMOS ATKINSON,
JALAAM GATES,
HENRY J. ALLEN,
MARSHALL S. GREENE,
ELZAPHAN P. BREWER,
JOSEPH L. HALL,
EZRA COMBS,
FLOYD H. HARRIS,
RUBEN M. COLBY,
LOUIS HARPER,
BENJAMIN COOK,
PATRICK H. HOGAN,
CHARLES H. DRAPER,
JULIUS B. HUBBARD,
JOSEPH M. DYSON,
GEORGE W. JILLSON,
THOMAS R. FOSTER,
WILDIAM H, JOHNSON,
JOSEPH H. FLINT,
SUMNER W. RANGER,
HENRY E. FAYERWEATHER,
PETER RICE,
CHARLES A. GARLAND,
SOLON S. SPRAGUE,
TRUANT OFFICER, EDWIN D. MCFARLAND.
CLERK OF MUNICIPAL COURT, CLARK JILLSON.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
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CITY ENGINEER
OF THE
CITY OF WORCESTER,
1871.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER.
1870.
To the City Council:
GENTLEMEN :- The following Report of the transactions of the Engineering department for the year ending Dec. 31, 1870, is most respectfully submitted-to wit ;
MILL BROOK.
The walling of this stream has been prosecuted with much more success during the last, than any previous year since the commencement of the work.
This has been partially due to the peculiar dryness of the season.
Mr. E. B. Walker completed his contract of 1869, Aug 27, 1870. The work under the Worcester and Nashua Railroad at Exchange street, was found to be the most difficult in its execution of any section upon the line. The foundation was soft and yielding in its nature, and to obtain the requisite sta- bility piles were driven in sections, with a low pile-driving machine used underneath the frame work of the temporary bridge supporting the railroad tracks above the excavation.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
The depth of the piling varied from 16 to 20 feet. The piles were driven in sections of 4 and 5 feet each, the seperate sec- tions of each pile being tied together with iron dowels.
Over these piles the foundation stone of the arch were placed with great care, so as to obtain the greatest possible stability upon the piles as driven.
From the Worcester and Nashua Railroad to a point above Central street, the foundation of the arch rests upon piles, or timbered foundation.
The contract for extending the walling from the terminus of the contract, made in 1869, with Mr. E. B. Walker, to a point near Court Mills, so called, was awarded March 19, 1870 to Messrs. Adam Dawson of New London, Ct., John Tank of Putnam, Ct., and F. A. Ingerson, of New London, Ct.
Most of this portion of the work has been laid under the bed of Union Street. The only private property passed over on this line is that of Lucius W. Pond.
This part of the work was commenced April 13, and finished Dec. 14, 1870, with the exception of a small portion at the old crossing of Mill Brook on Union Street near the shop of N. A. Lombard. This opening cannot be closed permanently until the sewer in Laurel street has been extended across Summer street through School Street to the new location of Mill Brook. Since at this point the waters of Bear Brook, must continue to enter Mill Brook, until the new sewer shall have been built. This opening is at present left with the same arrangement as was used in the construction of the arch under it. The sides and ends have been arranged so as to be read- ily usable, in case of a freshet for letting the flood waters, or any part of them directly into the new channel.
The work thus far completed with the distance finished by each contractor during each year since its commencement, is as follows ; to wit,
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CITY ENGINEER.
1867. Adam Dawson & Co.,
I868. E. B. Walker,
1869: E. B. Walker,
157I.
1870. E. B. Walker,
387.
1870. Dawson, Tank, and Ingerson, 1765.5
Total Feet walled and arched. 5907.5
Of the foregoing amount, 2238 feet has been walled in open trench, leaving 3669.5 feet of the whole amount covered with an arch.
Across the open canal there are the following stone arch bridges, to wit :
Feet.
Opposite Harrison Street
43.I
Winter
53.0
Temple 43.0
Franklin 43.0
Pond
43.0
Boston and Albany R. R. 45.0
Total length of Bridges. 270.2
The last bridge, that of the Boston and Albany Railroad, was constructed by the Railroad company previous to the con- struction of the canal. Lowering the bed of Mill Brook carries it below the foundation of this Bridge. The foundation of the bridge rests upon timbers, which have not been removed. Stone has been prepared ready for carrying the foundation down to a point below the paving of the brook. But the work of putting them in place has not yet been done. It was left the past season for the reason that the season was too far advanced when the preparation of the stone was finished.
This matter needs attention at as early a day as practicable the coming year.
T
Feet. 1364. 820.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
During the four years upon this work, there has been moved earth, and used the following amount of materials, to wit :- 68,944 cubic yards of Excavation. 35,348
ce Back filling.
642 ce ce e. Ledge Excavation.
16, 850 Perches of Stone laid dry.
9,365.7
ce
laid in cement.
4,381.8 ce " Paving in bed.
2,5II Piles driven.
241 Inlets for side sewers and drains.
26 Man holes in the arch.
The cost of construction has been as follows : Paid Fox Heirs, $36,000 00
" on Account of in. 1867, 53,456 53 on account of in. 1868,
43,170 92
ce ce ce " 1869, 101,048 15 ee ce
" 1870, 130,676 30 ee
Damages, 1870, 18,942 65
$383,294 55
In the item of damages is included the amounts paid for land and rights for the new channel between Green and Cam- bridge Streets, running parallel with Milbury St., as well as those paid along the line of that portion which has been built.
The expenditure for the year has been as follows, to wit : Paid E. B. Walker, $29,723 05
" Dawson, Tank & Co., 81,577 15
" Moving buildings, Pumping and contin- gencies, 19,376 10
Paid Damages, 18,942 65
Total,
$149,618 95
There is now due a reserved Balance of ten per eent. upon their contract, to Messrs. Dawson, Tank, and Ingerson.
CITY ENGINEER.
From the northerly end of the arch a temporary sluiceway is now being built under Court Mill to be connected with the race-way of the wheel pit, and so arranged that the waters of either may be turned into the walled channel, during freshets or at any other time, at this point.
To complete this work to Lincoln Square requires the con- struction of about 285 feet arch. This cannot be done until the buildings now standing upon the new location of Union street are removed.
The distance across Lincoln Square is 144 feet. The stream is now covered here by an arch of very rude construction, which cannot be considered permanent. When the work shall have been extended to the square, this arch will of necessity require rebuilding.
Upon the north side of Lincoln Square, on the extension of Prescott Street which has been decreed during the year, the brook will require arching for 560 feet, making 989 feet to complete the important work in this direction.
The portion now completed has been laid to the following grade.
,
Elevation above mean level of the sea.
Distance between change of Grade.
Rise in the Height of bed of the side walls or arch. Canal.
Top of wall at Canal lock at Green St,
458.691
66 " Paving in " 66
447.340
11.35
" wall at Winter St., East side,
458.760
" " Paving,
449.110
1425.50
1.77
9.65
Undersideof arch at Market St.,
461.44
Top of Paving under arch,
452.79
4096.0
3.68
8.65
Underside of arch at Court Mill,
464.97
Top of Paving under arch,
454.05
386.0
1.26
10.92
Totals,
5907.5
6.71
A careful examination was made of the condition of the Brook from Green Street to Cambridge Street in the month of September last.
ANNUAL RERORT OF
The width of the present channel varies from 9 to 18 feet ; the average being 13 to 14 feet. The surface of the water at that time stood about one foot below the level of the flats upon either bank ; and its average depth was about 18 inches. Its bed is rapidly filling up with various deposits both natural and artificial.
This filling up by natural deposits will, in the future, be very much accelerated by the facility with which accumula- tions of debris can be carried along and through the walled portions of the stream above, into this section.
From this cause, not many years can elapse, before the present channel will be entirely filled up, a result which would be a calamity severely felt by the occupied estates in this vicinity.
The distance by the old channel from Green to Cambridge street is 6,650 feet ; while the distance from the same point on Green Street to Cambridge Street, by the new location of the Brook, running parallel with Millbury Street, is 3750 feet. The fall from the paving of the bed of the brook at the north end of the old canal lock to the surface of ordinary high water in the brook at Cambridge Street, is 8.3 feet.
Ordinary high water at Cambridge street is 0.38 of one foot above the present wier of the dam at the Quinsigamond iron works. Commencing the grade of the new channel at one foot below the ordinary surface of the water at Cambridge street and rising one foot in a 1000, will allow the new canal to be built at Green street, at a point 5.5 feet below the surface of the paving, as laid in 1867. This arrangement is very desirable in order to obtain as large facilities as possible for the drainage of the streets and premises lying to the west of the line of its location.
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CITY ENGINEER.
SEWERS.
The building of sewers has been more successfully prose- cuted during the past, than any previous year.
The table on the following page exhibits the streets in which sewers have been laid during the year, also showing the num- ber of feet laid in each street, with the number of manholes, catch basins, and inlets ; to wit :
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Schedule of Sewers laid in 1870.
Names of Streets.
12 in Pipe.
15 in Pipe.
Pipe.
Pipe.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
40 in x 60 in
Manholes.
St. Basins.
Inlets.
No of
Pipe Inlets.
30|12 in.
Austin,
2
0
0
0
Ash,
32 x 48 163.0
2
0
0
0
Allen's Lot,
4
1
1
6 12 in.
Bartlett Place, Belknap,
180.0 308.0
108.0
3
0
0
0
9
4
4
24 12 in.
Bowdoin,
6
8
9
126|12 in.
Bridge and Fulton,
5
0
0
0
Canal,
150.5
974.5 48 X 72 96.0
6
7
7
100 12 in,
Causeway, and
Belmont,
3
0
0
0
Carlton,
197.0 365.0
636.0
187.0
563.0
340.0
666.0
3
0
0
0
Church,
3
0
0
0
Cherry,
1
1
12
Chatham,
3
2
2
3 12 ill.
Charlton,
3
0
0
0
Charles,
1
2
2
12 12 in.
Corbett,
4
2
2
18|12 in.
Cottage,
400.5
0
Dix,
7
0
Eaton Place,
12
4
4
57 12 il. 0
Elm,
2
0
0
193.0
Everett,
3
2
2
15|12 in.
Exchange,
352.0
.
17
4
4
27 12 in.
Cedar,
10
7
137|12 in.
Central,
252.0
449.5
66.0
185.0
8
0
291.0
407.5
254.0
0
275.0
136.5
781.5
18 in x 27 in
20 in x 30 in
24 in x 36 in
26 in x 39 in
27 in x 40 in
30 in x 45 in
1
3
3
60.0
208.5
1172.5
389.0 252.0 27.0
442.0
176.5
36
18 in.
ANNUAL REPORT OF
724.0
272.0
262.0
0 0
702.5
15 in oval
18 in oval
16 in x 24 in
Fruit, Foundry, Gold, George, Grove, Home, Howard, John, Lily, Ledge, Mechanic,
489.0
397.0
150.5
974.5
2
0
0
33 12 in. 0
169.0 294.0
234.0
78.5
1147.0
.
7 2
0
186.0
244.5
322.5
285.5
3
8
Main,
263.0
252.0
3
2
2
Myrtle,
245.0 706.5
302.0
10
4 5
4 9
Newbury,
295.0
918.0
65.0
1374.0
5
5
6
111 12 in.
Piedmont,
853.0
9
4
4
102 12 in.
Pleasant,
394.0
322.5
737.0
182.0
8
0
0
0
Plymouth,
376.0
209.0
254.5
674.0
7
8
11
83 12 in.
Prospect,
0
0
0
0
Quinsigamond,
172.0
179.0 1870.0
3
0
0
0 0
Spring,
9
668.0
7
7
7
398.0
299.5
2
2
2
Sycamore,
3
0
0
0
Temple,
312.0
18.0
939.0
4
0
0
0
Vine,
348.5
0
0
0
Warren,
172.0
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CITY ENGINEER.
5
0
0
0|
3
2
2
5
4 5
6 5 0
0 3
979.5
11
0 3 0 0 9
0 0 9
69|12 in. 63|12 in. 0 0 21 12 in. 0 0 78|12 in. 20 9 in. 114 12 in. 42 15 in. 42 12 in. 12|12 in.
N. Ashland,
3
0
0
Oak,
19
9
9
Providence,
348.0
996.0
8
1
3
21 12 in. 6 18 in,
0
Seaver,
Spruce,
380.0 330.0
725.0
3
0
0 7
36|12 in. 36 27 12 in. G 6 15 in. 12 in.
Southbridge and Main, Sudbury.
203.0
7
60 12 in.
Thomas,
34.0
30.0
18 15 in.
10
0
0
120 12 in. 0 80.5 12 in.
412.0
1735.0
3
8
10
3
560.0
2
224.0
Pink,
12
Names of Streets.
12 in Pipe.
15 in Pipe.
Pipe.
Pipe.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
holes.
Man-
Basins.
Street
Inlets.
No. of
Pipe Inlets.
Water, Washington, Wachusett, William, West. Winter,
361.5
3
0
0
11
0
0
3
3
3
12 12 in.
9
5
5
39 |12 in.
13
1
1
9 12 in.
411.0
2
0
0
0
Totals,
10637.5 4379.5 4054.0 2106.0 1956.0
2075.0 5574.5
954.5
4521.0 |1158.5
3394.5
2238.5 32 x 48 48 x 72 163 0
334
148
163
For Inlets, Gross Total.
20 ft. 9 in; 1714.5 ft. 12 in .; 87 ft. 15 in. ; 42 ft. 18 in. 43.308.5 ft., or 8.20 miles.
96.0
·
1348.5
336.0 684.0 974.5
490.5
.
37.0
398.0
20 in x 30 in
24 in x 36 in
26 in x 39 in
27 in x 40 in
30 in x 45 in
40 in x 60 in
15 in oval
18 in'oval
16 in x 24 in
18 in x 27 in
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
CITY ENGINEER.
The following sewers are yet to be laid by Mr. S. H. Tar- bell to complete his contract of 1869; to wit :
Feet
Main Street from Mrs. Wheelock's to Claremont St. 2487
The extension of Sever to Highland, 505
In Home from N. Ashland to Wesby,
420
In Wesby St., 162
A part of John St., 450
Total
4024
The following sewers are to be laid by Mr. Geo. C. Barney under his contract of 1870; to wit :
Exchange St. Mill brook to Main,
IO24
Foster St., Waldo to Main,
384
Main St., Foster to Walnut,
304
410
Park, Portland to Salem, Salem, Park to Myrtle,
748
Salem, Madison North,
I24
Madison, Portland to Orange,
400
Orange, North of Madison,
590
Central St. across old Mill Brook,
45
Thomas St.,
45
Total
4074
All orders of the city council for building sewers, passed after the execution of the contract with Mr. Geo. C. Barney have been completed, with the exception of that for the exten- sion of the Kendall street sewer to Oak Avenue, a distance of 270 feet.
The order for the sewer in Thomas and Prospect streets was executed by Mr. Barney.
The orders for those in Ash street, Bartlett Place, Belknap st., Bridge st, from Mill Brook to Summer ; in Fulton, Canal, Cherry, Charles streets ; in Eaton Place, in Foundry, Gold, Grove, Howard, Ledge, Providence, and Plymouth streets ; at Quinsigamond village ; in Spruce and Temple streets east of Mill Brook; in Vine, Warren, and Water streets from Ledge St. to Grafton St. ; and in Washington and in Winter Sts., from
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
Mill Brook to Grafton Street, were constructed by Mr. E. S. Knowles at the same rates and on the same terms and condi- tions, as those named and specified in the contract with Mr. Geo. C. Barney.
The following summary gives a condensed statement of the whole amount of sewers laid from the commencement of the work in 1867, to the present time.
Date.
Feet of Sewers laid.
Manholes.
Catch Basins.
Cost.
1867.
5,839
19
$26,288 47
1868.
15,863
111
68
77,023 44
1869.
24,303
202
51
120,638 16
1870.
43,308
333
139
219,907 18
Total,
89,313 16 miles and 4833 feet.
665
258
443,857 25
To the cost of sewers as given above is to be added a bal- ance of ten per cent of each unfinished contract to Mr. S. H. Tarbell, Geo. C. Barney, and E. S. Knowles.
The amount paid the last year has been disbursed as fol- lows ;
To S. H. Tarbell on contract 93,828.12
" G. C. Barney " 58,363.60
" E. S. Knowles " 49,724.95
Man hole covers, stone work for catch basins and
inlets, Engineering and contingencies, 17,990.51
$ 219,907,18
In order to sewer completely all streets within the limits, where the present sewers have mostly been laid and enclosed within the following boundaries ; to wit :
Commencing at Lincoln square and following Summer street to Washington square, thence by the square and Graf- ton St. to Providence St., thence by Providence street, to the summit of Union hill as far as the sewer has been built, and thence from Providence by Waverly St. produced to Water St., thence following Water to Green St., thence in a direct
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CITY ENGINEER.
line to Washington street, at its intersection with Mill Brook, thence by Washington and Plymouth streets to the Western Railroad, thence by the Western R. R. to the line of Lagrange St., produced southerly, thence by Lagrange to Beacon St., thence westerly by Beacon St. to the summit of the hill, thence by the crest of the watershed to Hammond St., and crossing said Hammond St., and running to Ripley St., thence by Ripley St. to Main St., and thence crossing Main St., fol- lowing Claremont St. to Woodland St., thence by Wood- land St. to May St., thence by the crest line of the watershed to Queen St. at King St., thence by the crest line of the watershed northerly crossing Chandler and Austin St. to Pleasant St., then by Pleasant St. to Sever St., thence by Sever St. and the extension of its line to the crest line of the watershed westerly of Bliss St., thence easterly to Bliss St., thence by Bliss St. to Salisbury St., thence by Sal- isbury St. to the line of Concord St., produced northwesterly until it intersects said Salisbury St., thence by said line and Concord St. to Prescott St., thence by Prescott St. and Lincoln square to point of commencement.
Sewers have to be constructed in the streets given in the following Schedule.
Schedule of Sewers now to be laid.
Austin west of Piedmont,
660
Merrick,
853
Lyons Court.
250
Larch west of Merrick,
265
Queen north and south of Chandler
950
Prince, Piedmont west
795
Davis, Piedmont to Queen,
438
Queen, from Davis and King,
469
King, from Main,
1300
Queen, between King and May,
923
May, from Main,
1387
Woodland, from May and Claremont,
581
Claremont, Main to Woodland,
872
Silver,
263
Kingsbury, Queen to Woodland,
294
Woodland, north and south of Kingsbury,
900
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
Beacon, Hammond to Hermon,
2116
Hammond, from Beacon west,
254
Benefit, Beacon to Benefit Court,
190
Benefit Court,
310
Benefit, east of Beacon,
100
Oread, east of Beacon,
224
Oread, west. of Beacon,
291
Lagrange, west of Beacon,
390
Lagrange, Main to Summit,
293
Jackson, west of Beacon,
515 453
Jackson, Southbridge to Summit,
Ripley,
548
Hammond,
513
Allen,
448
Mt. Pleasant,
291
Benefit, Main to Summit,
520
Oread, Main to Summit,
423
Piedmont, Brook to Main,
305
Chandler, west of Piedmont,
923
Bliss, Highland to Summit,
1120
West, Highland to John,
700
Harvard, State to George,
543
" Highland to State,
445
Highland. Boynton to Harvard,
1070
Lincoln Sq. "
588
New Street, Salisbury to Highland,
1300
Lancaster, Highland to Dix,
€40
Wachusett, " 66
543
Goulding, 66 66
453
Denny,
66
392
Elm, Main to Chestnut,
582
" Chesnut to Linden,
310
Maple, Main to Walnut,
468
Maple St. Pl. from Maple St. West,
200
Main, Isaac Davis to Dr. Sargent,
190
New Street, east of Piedmont,
143
Austin to Pleasant,
695
Lincoln St., Mill Brook to Summer,
220
Lincoln Sq., Summer to Linwood Pl.,
577
Belmont
Fountain,
515
Summer, Belmont Arch,
700
State, Main to Harvard,
575
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CITY ENGINEER.
Main, Market to Lincoln Sq.,
545
School to Market,
154
66 Thomas,
300
Market, Mill Brook to Main
489
66
E to Sewer
125
School " " to Main
499 577
Summer, School to Arch
226
From Thomas N.
162
Central to Thomas
312
66 66 " Charles
512
66 Bridge "
585
Bridge, Mechanic to Front
200
Tremont, Front " Mechanic
243
Washington Sq., Mill Brook to Summer
275
Shrewsbury, Summer to E. Worcester
1050
Water, Ledge to Harrison
520
Ledge to Waverly and Providence
520
Harrison, Water to Providence
940
Pond, Mill Brook to Green
545
Winter Pl., Pond to Winter
267
Beach, Winter Pl. to Brown
186
Brown, Pond to Winter
300
Washington, Park to Summer S.
450
Orange, Park to Myrtle
683
Park and Green from R. R. to Trumbull
382
Lynn, Salem to Orange
155
Total on S. H. Tarbell's contract
4024
66 G. C. Barney's 4074
66 " E. S. Knowles' 270
Other Streets 44,478
Total amount now to lay to finish all street included in the above district. 52.846
The total number of private drains now entering the public sewers is as follows :
Entered previous to 1867
129
in
1867
6
66
1868
107
66
1869 210
3
" Laurel
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
Entered previous to 1870
364
Total 816
The number of buildings upon the streets where sewers are now located is 1761
HIGHWAYS.
Surveys have been made and decrees prepared for the acceptance by the City Council, or alteration in the following streets, to wit :
Road from Leicester Street, by John A. Hunt's, to Jamesville, 3775
Extension of Prescott street, from Concord street to Lincoln
Square,
724
Wyman street,
905
Salisbury street, from Lincoln Square to Boynton street,
2154
Lagrange, from Main to Beacon street, 685
North street, 1549
Milton, from North to Edgeworth street,
502
Oak Avenue,
1362
Bellevue, from Pleasant to Chandler street,
1003
Oread, from Main to Beacon street,
1200
Union, alteration in from Thomas to Lincoln Square,
1153
Madison, Main to Beacon street,
308
Front, widening from Church to Hibernia street,
1168
Newbury street,
1275
Merrick,
868
Austin, Re-location Newbury to Mason street,
1816
Piedmont, from Pleasant to Austin street,
900
Newton street,
2623
King street,
1448
East and Wilmot,
1686
Sever, from Elm to Highland,
1757
Total feet made public, 28,86I
Surveys have been made of the following streets, none of which have either been accepted as public by the City Council, or been adjudicated upon by the County Com- missioners, to wit :
Kendall, east of Oak Avenue,
776
Channing,
1640
Road from IIunt's, 2600
Feet.
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CITY ENGINEER.
Grove street to Lincoln street,
2150
Chandler,
3150
Cambridge,
8172
Lafayette,
2265
Alterations in Lincoln street,
4600
Canterbury,
4243
Hanover extension and Causeway,
960
Bliss,
1900
Claremont and Silver,
1265
Total surveys,
33.721
The number of feet of streets surveyed and located in the past four years is as follows, to wit :
1867,
1868,
feet.
1868,
31,836,
66
1869,
23,156,
66
1870,
62,582,
66
Total feet,
119,442
== 22 miles 3282 feet.
SIDEWALKS.
The number of feet of grades set and established for side- walks in the last four years is as follows, to wit :
1867,
5,037,
1868,
7,876,
1869,
13,139,
1870,
39,424,
Total,
65,476 feet = 12 miles 2116 feet.
MAPS OF THE CITY.
Upon the order of the City Council of March 29, 1869, di- recting the City Engineer to prepare plans of such sections of the city as have been embraced in the different orders for establishing Sewers, there has been made one volume of thirty-five plans, a copy of which has been deposited with the Board of Assessors. Upon these plans are shown 832 different estates, and cover an area of 6,986,807 square feet, or 160,15 acres, exclusive of the area of the adjoining streets, an area about } of the district given when treating of Sewers.
The irregularity as to the direction with which the various
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streets are located, the indefiniteness of their precise location in many instances ; the consequent want of uniformity in the size, shape, and the several dimensions of private estates, with the uncertainty of the precise location of the actual points dividing one estate from another, renders the work one of great difficulty to prepare these maps free from all errors, and in- creases the amount of time needful to prepare them many times over that required, were the location of our streets and estates regular, and the intersecting angles mostly right angles.
A large amount of field notes have been made, and sketches collected and prepared for compiling and perfecting plans of other portions of the district in which Sewers have been laid as contemplated by the order. Much of this work can be accom- plished in the coming four months, before the opening of the coming season.
WATER WORKS.
Their present efficiency and repair is as good as at any previous time.
The following Schedule exhibits the amount of pipe laid, and fixtures on the works from 1863 to the present time.
Date.
Feet of Pipe laid.
Gates set
Hydrants | Service sct.
tops.
Service l'ipe.
Hydrant Bands.
1×63
27,831
157
1864
31.741
54
152
29
3,800
1865
26,723
70
65
207
5,968
1660
26,871
46
36
284
8,082
275
1867
27,543
53
56
388
11.312
430
1868
22,5-9
47
35
504
13,790
240
1869
46.506
126
45
673
17.202
360
1870
29,156
29
581
16,284
232
238.960 45 miles. 1360 feet.
467
418
2823
76,438
3227
The expenses of the year have been as follows :
Maintenance,
$11,117.63
Pumping,
8,105.21
Reservoir Dam,
48,980.42
General construction,
76,260.36
Total,
$144,463.63
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CITY ENGINEER.
INCOME FROM WATER RATES.
Date.
Assessments received in cash.
Public Buildings.
Hydrants
Total Income.
Amt. expended in each year from 1863.
1863
2,570 72
included.
not taxed.
2,570 72
35,000 00
1864
3,244 83
3,244 83
77,425 32
1865
4.742 50
162 00
4,800 00
9,704 50
88,701 79
1866
14,008 67
276 00
4,800 00
19,084 67
102,066 82
1867
16.461 35
420 00
5.650 00
22,531 35
74.813 05
1868
23.739 94
447 00
6,500 00
30,686 94
32,126 12
1869
31,562 90
403 17
7,550 00
39,516 07
95,131 17
1870
38,310 41
705 00
8,000 00
47,015 41
144,463 63
Total.
134,641 32
2,413 17
37.300 00
174.354 49
649,727 90
The work of raising the Reservoir Dam, though not fully completed, to the extent of the order of the City Council, is so far advanced as to be able to store at least five feet additional supply over any previous year. Should the coming Spring open early, work may be commenced upon the dam, and so managed as to store most, if not all, of the stream after the first of May next. For the want of the necessary labor to per- form the entire work required to be done, but very little grub- bing has been accomplished in the basin of the Reservoir. All the labor obtainable has been used upon the dam. The base of the dam has been constructed the full width which will be required to carry it up the contemplated twenty feet above the first dam. The construction of this base includes new gate-houses, and waste and outlet pipes, and all the needed foundation and spiling walls.
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