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GENERAL STATISTICS
Arlington is situated six miles northwest of Boston, in lati- tude 42°, 25' north; longitude 71°, 09' west, at an elevation above mean tide of from 4 to 377 feet.
Massachusetts Avenue at Pleasant Street, elevation, 48 feet. Massachusetts Avenue at Park Avenue, elevation, 155 feet.
Park Circle at Eastern Avenue (base of standpipe), elevation, 377 feet.
Crescent Hill Avenue at Park Place, elevation, 281 feet.
The Town and a part of what is now Belmont were set off from Cambridge and incorporated as West Cambridge in 1807. The name was changed from West Cambridge to Arlington in 1867.
Population (census of 1915), 14,860.
Number of polls, 4972. ,
Number of voters: Men, 3536; women, 158. Total, 3694. School enrollment: Public, 3110; parochial, 223. Total, 3333 Area of Town, including that covered by water, 3520 acres, or 512 square miles; area covered by water, 268.2 acres.
Parks: Town, 54.63 acres; Metropolitan, 55 acres.
Total cemetery area, 44.2 acres.
Area taxed, 2606.0 acres. Tax rate, $25.50 per $1000.
Valuation of real estate, $17,613,295.
Valuation of personal property, $1,668,117.
Public streets and town ways: Macadam, 17.96 miles; gravel, 24.59 miles; granite paving, 0.3 mile. Total miles, 42.58.
Private streets open for travel, 25.57 miles.
Permanent sidewalks: Tar concrete, 7.4 miles; brick, 3.31 miles; artificial stone, 2.17 miles. Total miles, 12.88.
Edgestone, 9.47 miles.
Paved gutters, 12.31 miles.
Storm drain system, 11.39 miles.
Catch basins, 450.
Sewerage system, 35.03 miles; local Metropolitan sewer sys- tem, 3.47 miles. Total, 38.50 miles.
Particular sewer system (2289 connections), 23.50 miles.
Number of buildings connected, 2363.
Water mains: Reservoir supply, 2.49 miles; Metropolitan low system, 21.74 miles; Metropolitan high system, 26.16 miles. Total, 50.39 miles.
REPORT OF TOWN COUNSEL.
To the Honorable, the Joint Board of Selectmen and the Board of Public Works of the Town of Arlington.
I herewith hand you my report as Town Counsel for the year ending December 31, 1917.
During the year twenty-three (23) cases were disposed of either by trial or settlement. There remain at the end of this year seven (7) cases pending in various courts against the Town.
The Town has been represented before the Public Service Commission and the various Committees of the Legislature and the regular routine work of the various Departments has been attended to.
Respectfully submitted,
PHILIP A. HENDRICK, Town Counsel.
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REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD.
ORGANIZATION.
The members of the Planning Board of 1917 are H. W. Hayes, Chairman, Harry G. Porter, James P. Parmenter, Cyrus E. Dallin, Robert W. Pond, Jacob Bitzer, Secretary.
The Board had, during the year, kept in touch with all public improvements and necessities required in Arlington and has acquired information in regard to the work of other Planning Boards throughout the State.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
Owing to the high cost of labor and materials, also the many demands for money to carry on the war, the Board recommends that the Town proceed with only those undertakings that are absolutely necessary, such as the maintenance and repair of the highways. New schemes for the development of the Town should be deferred until the return of normal conditions.
The Board at this time desires to call the attention of the Town to the various projects that have been under discussion and their present status.
BUILDING LINES ON MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE.
The establishment of building lines on Massachusetts Avenue was recommended by this Board in 1915, the matter was dis- cussed in Town Meeting and referred to the Joint Board and Planning Board with instructions to report the estimated ex- pense to the Town of the establishment of these lines.
NEW STREET FROM MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE TO MYSTIC STREET.
The layout of a new street from Massachusetts Avenue to Mystic Street has been carefully considered and a plan drawn by the Town Engineer was approved by this Board. As this project involves the elimination of grade crossings, the Town
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voted to grant permission to the Selectmen to petition for a commission to be appointed by the Superior Court.
PROTECTION OF MYSTIC LAKES.
The Legislature of 1917 passed a resolve authorizing the Metropolitan Park Board to investigate and report on the ad- visability of taking over the lower lake into the Park System; also to report on the prevention of the pollution of both lakes by the industries located on the watershed. A favorable report by the Park Commission will be a step toward the protection of the shores from the encroachment of building promoters and the prevention of pollution of the waters of both lakes.
SUCKER BROOK SEWER.
The necessity of building a sewer in the Sucker Brook Valley has been brought to the attention of the officials of the Town by numerous compalints from citizens in regard to unhealthy conditions existing in the valley. As a preliminary step in this undertaking, the following resolve was passed by the Legislature and was approved by the Governor, March 8, 1917:
Resolved, That the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board shall investigate the condition and capacity of the present Metropolitan sewer in the Town of Arlington with especial reference to its capacity to receive and dispose of the sewage of that part of the Town of Arlington tributary to the same, and of the Town of Lexington. The said Board is also authorized and directed to report a plan for the new sewer contemplated by Section 4 of Chapter 520 of the Acts of the year 1897, in the valley of Mill or Sucker Brook, so situated as to serve all parts of the said valley and such adjacent territory as, in the opinion of the Board, should be served by the same. The Board may em- ploy such engineering or other assistance as may be necessary, and may incur an expense not exceeding one thousand dollars in carrying out the provisions of this resolve. The Board shall report to the present General Court not later than the first day of May, with plans and estimates of the cost of such construction as it may recommend. (Chapter 22 of the Resolves of 1916.)
In accordance with this resolve, the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board caused an examination to be made of the con-
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ditions attending the disposal of sewage of that part of the Town of Arlington tributary to the present Metropolitan sewer there- in, together with the sewage contributed by the Town of Lex- ington to this sewer.
The present sewer has a capacity at this time more than suffi- cient to dispose of the sewage of the district under question. It is, however, apparent that, with the present rate of increase of the population of these two towns in a few years' time some additional means of removing the sewage of this district will be necessary.
A plan is herewith submitted for the new sewer contemplated by Section 4 of Chapter 520 of the Acts of the year 1897, and it is believed that the sewer so planned will offer a sufficient relief for another generation. The detailed report of the engi- neer, and the plan representing the lines of the sewer recom- mended by him, are part of this report.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY P. WALCOTT, EDWARD A. MCLAUGHLIN, Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board.
The plan for this sewer submitted by the engineer of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board does not meet with the approval of this Board as the location of the sewer, as planned, does not follow the brook for a long distance. A joint taking of land by the Town and Metropolitan Water and Sewer- age Board is recommended, so that the improvement and straightening of the brook can be accomplished at the time the sewer is built, thus reducing the cost of both projects to the State and the Town. The Town Engineer has been directed to co-operate with the Engineer of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board in making a new study of the route for this sewer for the purpose of bringing about this improvement in the brook.
For the purpose of giving the Town authority to take lands and water rights in the brook, the following Act was introduced and passed by the Legislature of 1917.
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AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON TO TAKE SUCKER BROOK, SO-CALLED.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
For the purpose of protecting the health of its inhabitants, the Town of Arlington, by vote of the Town, may take by right of eminent domain Sucker Brook, so-called, and such land ad- joining said brook as may be necessary for the purpose afore- said, and the land or water rights so taken shall be taken and paid for in the manner provided by law in the case of land taken for highways. (Approved March 14, 1917.)
SUMMER STREET STATE HIGHWAY AND BOULEVARD.
The Board is much gratified to be able to report the comple- tion of this State Highway which has been built under an agree- ment entered into by the Joint Board and the State Highway Commissioners. This splendid roadway has been thoroughly built under careful supervision by the engineers of the Town and the Highway Commission and has cost the State $30,000 for its share of the work from Brattle Street to the Lexington line.
The Metropolitan Park Commission has expended to date $29,000 on the construction of the boulevard from Mystic Street to Medford Street, and a still further expenditure of $15,000 will be required to complete the work. The Legislature of 1917 refused to make any appropriation for highways and boulevards, thus delaying the completion of the Arlington Boulevard until the finances of the State will warrant making an appropriation for this work.
The State Highway and Boulevard will give the Town a new thoroughfare, relieving the traffic on Massachusetts Avenue and opening up an immense amount of territory for building purposes.
SCHOOL PROBLEMS.
The great increase in the school population every year makes it necessary to keep in mind the need of more schoolhouse ac- commodations.
The Town, at the annual meeting last March, voted against an appropriation for a Junior High School, therefore, the con- struction of this building must be deferred.
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The Board recommends that the Town authorize no appro- priation for buildings until the close of the war. A special com- mittee has been appointed to investigate and report on sites for new grammar schools; pending this committee's report your Board will make no recommendations.
EXPENDITURES.
During the four years that the Board has been in existence there has been expended the sum of $276.66. Erroneous reports have reached the Board that the running expenses are much larger.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY W. HAYES, HARRY G. PORTER, JAMES P. PARMENTER, CYRUS E. DALLIN, ROBERT W. POND, JACOB BITZER, Secretary.
REPORT OF TREE WARDEN.
The usual amount of planting, trimming and removing of trees was done this year.
The amount of dead wood found in our shade trees is very large and removing it is slow, dangerous and expensive, but in order to have it safe for travel on our streets this work should be done each year. Each year a number of our old shade trees die, due to lack of nutrition on account of our new method in building streets and sidewalks, and from the depredations of the leopard moth. This year we have removed twenty-three dead trees and eight dangerous trees which obstruct public travel on which hearings have been held. The removal of the tree in the triangle plot on Medford Street was a great improve- ment, and also removed a very dangerous obstacle to travel.
Two hundred and one maples, one hundred lindens, fifty . Oriental planes and twenty poplars were set out on our streets and six poplars set out in Spy Pond Field.
Little damage has been done by leaf-eating insects this year, as these insects are kept in control by the Moth Department. I would recommend that $1,250 be appropriated for the plant- ing, removal and general care of shade trees. The following is a statement of the nature and location of work done by this Department :
TREES REMOVED.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, two; Summer Street, two; Oak- land Avenue, one; Massachusetts Avenue, thirteen; Pleasant Street, three; Warren Street, two; Medford Street, two; Forest Street, three; Maple Street, one; Jason Street, one; Lake Street, one.
TRIMMING.
Pleasant Street, Massachusetts Avenue, Westminster Avenue, Palmer Street, Wyman Street, Broadway, Forest Street, Wol- laston Avenue, Marathon Street, Magnolia Street, Fairmont
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Street, Thorndyke Street, Belknap Street, Henderson Street, Teel Street, Jason Street, Winter Street, Lake Street.
SCALE SPRAYING.
Massachusetts Avenue, Highland Avenue, Pleasant Street.
PLANTING.
Spy Pond Field
6
Paul Revere Road
9
Russell School Park
1
Highland Avenue
11
Woodland Street
2
Marathon Street
14
Cleveland Street
13
Beacon Street
5
Teel Street
5
Trowbridge Street
10
Henderson Street
1
Amsden Street
2
Linwood Street
4
Wyman Terrace
39
Warren Street
7
Massachusetts Avenue
3
Everett Street
37
Webster Street
3
Grafton Street
35
Broadway
13
Harlow Street
8
Newcomb Street
12
O d Mystic Street
'8
Mystic Street
2
Melrose Street
3
Wyman Street
6
Edgerton Road
16
Randolph Street
14
Freeman Street
4
Palmer Street
11
Orvis Road
1
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Bartlett Avenue
1
Jason Street
9
Ravine Street
4
Irving Street
3
Gray Street
2
Park Street
5
Norfolk Road
6
Central Street
9
Wachusett Avenue
3
Wollaston Avenue
2
Hillside Avenue
1
Appleton Street
1
Acton Street
16
Brattle Street
10
Expenditures.
Labor
Team
:
Trimming
$100.77
$37.13
Planting.
133.29
43.44
Removing trees
103.07
35.18
Private work.
210.06
10.00
Scale Spraying
9.18
3.75
Lost time.
6.74
Store house
19.66
Storm damage
28.44
7.50
Watering trees
13.75
6.00
Putting on guards
89.16
12.00
$714.12 $155.00
Labor
$714.12
Team .
155.00
Trees .
432.00
Guards.
122.57
Supplies
122.97
$1,546.66
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Appropriation
$1,250.00
Receipts . 297.90
$1,547.90
Expenditures
$1,546.66
Balance .
$1.24
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL M. DALEY, Tree Warden.
REPORT OF BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
ARLINGTON, December 31, 1917.
To the Board of Selectmen.
Gentlemen: During 1917 the Park Department has had the usual good care taken of the various pieces of land under its charge together with the additional plots turned over to it at the last meeting.
Menotomy Rocks Park has been policed on Sundays and holidays throughout the season, and a new stone gate has been erected at the Jason Street entrance, taking the place of an un- sightly board fence. Various trees and shrubs have been planted and this Department expects to make further much needed improvements another year provided the appropriation awarded · to it will permit.
Respectfully submitted,
GORHAM H. DAVIS, Chairman of the Park Commission.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The Board of Public Works herewith submits its annual re- port for the year ending December 31, 1917.
Henry S. Adams resigned as member of the Board on January 1 and Charles H. Gannett was elected by the Joint Board to serve until the annual meeting.
At the Town Meeting held on March 5, 1917, Thomas D. Kennedy was elected member of the Board for the term of three years. The Board organized on March 19 with the choice of Arthur Birch as Chairman.
APPOINTMENTS
At a meeting held March 19 Harold N. Willis was appointed Clerk of the Board, Water Registrar, Purchasing Agent and Bookkeeper. On March 28, George E. Ahern was appointed Superintendent in charge of Highways, Sewer and Water. These appointments were for the year ending April 1, 1918.
MEETINGS
The regular meetings are held each Monday evening. Dur- ing the year the Board held fifty regular and two special meet- ings.
The following are the net expenditures made under the direc- tion of the Board:
Highway Division
$79,979.03
Sewer Extensions
10,610.35
Sewer Maintenance
3,037.74
Water Extensions
16,907.51
Water Maintenance (includes interest, sinking fund and Metropolitan Water Assessment)
68,685.57
New Street Construction
11,964.96
Appleton Street
2,486.24
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Street Watering Storm Drains Snow and Ice
$5,000.00
2,621.78
6,997.94
$208,291.12
HIGHWAY DIVISION
Each year the demand for smooth surfaced, easy riding streets becomes more insistent and each year the wear and tear upon the streets becomes greater, due in part to the increase in the amount of traffic, but principally to the change in the char- acter of same.
Automobile trucks are rapidly supplanting the horse-drawn vehicles for trucking purposes. Many of these trucks weigh, loaded, between fifteen and twenty tons and put a great strain upon the surfaces of the streets. Road surfaces that will offer the greatest resistance to this wear, while more expensive at first, are the cheaper in the long run, as they require less main- tenance.
This year it was deemed wiser to bring practically all the streets of the Town into fair condition than to spend large sums in certain locations and be obliged to neglect the others. With this object in view, patching crews were kept systemati- cally going over the streets and filling up small holes as they appeared. The streets were also cleaned and otherwise repaired where necessary.
To preserve the surface and to prevent dust, the streets were treated with a wearing coat of tar or asphaltic oils, but little sprinkling with water being done. The surfaces of practically every accepted street in Town were thus treated, ten and one- half miles in length being treated with oil and twenty-two miles with tar.
Reconstruction work was done on nine streets during the year. On eight of these streets tar macadam was used and on one, concrete.
Temporary tar sidewalks, over four miles in length, were laid on twenty-one streets at a cost of $6,925.58, which was less than the appropriation for this work, and the distance covered was almost twice. Other Town sidewalks were constantly given attention and their condition improved.
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Catch basins were systematically cleaned and the condition of the storm drains looked into.
Three streets were accepted by the Town at the March meet- ing in 1917 - Fairmont Street, Park Avenue Extension, and Hopkins Road - and were constructed this year, and the construction of two of the streets accepted in 1916, Florence Avenue and Albermarle Street, was completed; $12,914.96 was expended on this work, $850 of which was taken from the High- way appropriation, the balance from the appropriation for the construction of streets.
In view of the fact that the cost of labor, teams and materials used was greater than ever before, the Board considers the re- sults most creditable, both from a physical and financial stand- point, and this is due in great measure to the efficiency of our superintendent in handling the work.
Reference to tables 1 and 2 will show the details of mainte- nance and construction.
The value of the property controlled by the Highway Division, January 1, 1918, amounted to $25,926.16, classified as follows: Horses, vehicles, machinery and tools $20,799.75 Buildings and appurtenances 3,100.00
Material available for new work 2,026.41
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TABLE 1
HIGHWAY DIVISION Appropriation for 1917 Total net expenditure 79,979.03
$80,581.00
Balance January 1, 1918
$601.97
Net Expense
Care and repair of streets.
$15,529.60
Care and repair of sidewalks.
4,738.76
Care and repair of storm drains and catch basins
2,225.79
Prevention of dust (tar treatment)
9,220.11
Stable and teaming.
1,401.41
Street signs .
530.94
Tools and equipment.
3,291.74
Construction of temporary tar sidewalks
6,925.58
Reconstruction of streets.
*26,396.71
Albermarle Street (land taken)
850.00
Reconstructing grass plot junction Medford and Chestnut Streets. .
321.49
Repairs on permanent tar sidewalks.
318.75
Installing edgestone. .
243.01
Constructing paved gutters, Upland Road.
629.62
Construction of wall and fence, Lowell Street. .
647.82
Construction of wall and fence, Westminster Avenue.
182.36
Construction of wall and fence, Summer Street Extension
411.17
Mill Lane.
248.66
General expense.
+7,085.37
Work outside of division
¥198.63
Material used that was on hand January 1, 1917.
±1,346.58
Construction of Oxford Street.
325.35
Total
$79,979.03
*Cleveland Street, Highland Avenue, Marathon Street, Massachusetts Avenue, Paul Revere Road, Schouler Court, Summer Street, Waldo Road, Westminster Avenue.
tAutomobile, $785.36; holidays, Saturday afternoons and vacation, $4,269.51; salaries, $1,322.50; office, $358.11; pensions, $200.20 ;. miscellaneous, $149.69.
ĮCredits.
Unpaid bills due division Material on hand January 1, 1918, available for new work 2,026.41
$235.28
$2,261.69
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TABLE 2
Appropriation for 1917 $11,000.00
Cash on hand January 1, 1917
1,079.53
CONSTRUCTION OF STREETS Available for 1917
$12,079.53
Net expenditure 11,964.96
Unexpended balance
$114.57
Name
Expenditures
Albermarle Street.
$1,211.39
Fairmont Street.
2,681.57
Florence Avenue .
838.85
Hopkins Road.
3,006.67
Park Avenue Extension .
3,772.49
Miscellaneous. .
136.26
Holidays and Saturday afternoons.
317.73
Total.
$11,964.96
STREET WATERING AND TREATMENT FOR PREVENTION OF DUST Appropriation for 1917 $5,000.00
Expenditure 5,000.00
With water
$104.31
With oil
3,219.00
With tar
1,676.69
$5,000.00
APPLETON STREET ALTERATION OR CONSTRUCTION FROM WA- CHUSETT AVENUE TO LEXINGTON LINE
Cash on hand Janu- ary 1, 1917 $2,486.24
Expenditure 2,486.24
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TABLE 3
Appropriation for 1917 $3,000.00
STORM DRAINS
Expenditure 2,621.78
Cash balance January 1, 1918
$378.22
Highland Avenue.
$1,962.47
Lowell Street and Westminster Avenue.
253.73
Pine Street to Summer Street.
355.58
Miscellaneous
50.00
Total
$2,621.78
Appropriation for 1917 Less overdraft, 1916
$7,068.61
1,068.61
$6,000.00
Transfer from Emergency Fund
1,000.00
SNOW AND ICE
Available for 1917
$7,000.00
Expenditure
6,997.94
Cash balance January 1, 1918
$2.06
SEWER DIVISION
Three thousand, one hundred twenty-two feet of main sewer were laid during the year, and one hundred seventeen house connections were made with the mains. Details of this work, together with the cost of maintenance, will be found in Tables 4 and 5.
The value of property controlled by the Sewer Division January 1, 1918, amounts to $6,475.99, as follows:
Tools and equipment
$1,467.44
Buildings and appurtenances
400.00
Two pumping plants
1,900.00
Material available for new work
2,708.55
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TABLE 4
Appropriation for 1917
$25,000.00 4,117.61
Cash on hand January 1, 1917
$29,117.61
Available for Sewer Extensions Net expenditure
10,610.35
Cash balance January 1, 1918
$18,507.26
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in feet
Net Cost
Cost per foot
Freeman Street (Orvis Road westerly)
8
297
$236.22
$0.79
Lake Street (Railroad crossing to Lakehill Avenue) ..
12
211
1,105.43
*5.24
Newport Street (Gloucester Street southerly).
8
211
263.13
1.25
Oxford Street (Massachusetts Avenue northerly)
8
361
320.20
.89
Peabody Road ( Private lands westerly)
8
539
781.65
1.45
Peirce Street (Old end to Locke Street)
8
116
261.62
2.26
Thorndike Street (Railroad northerly)
8
251
1,104.64
+4.40
Walnut Street (Albermarle Street southerly)
8
554
652.93
1.18
Warren Street (Rawson Road to Park Street)
8
582
533.84
.92
Fairview Avenue.
5.09
Lakehill Avenue (Lake Street northerly).
44.01
Meadow Brook.
32.01
Section No. 14.
993.74
Waldo Road
27.41
Total.
$6,361.92
Particular sewers
Į293.02
Material purchased during year but not used.
1,076.44
Tools and equipment .
601.32
§General expense
2,863.69
Grand totals.
3122
$10,610.35
*Done by contract (thirteen-foot cut).
+Quicksands and much water encountered. ĮCredits.
§Salaries, $665; office, $187.10; land damages, $1000: automobile, $250; miscellaneous, $463.53; holidays, Saturday afternoons and vacations $298.06.
Material on hand January 1, 1917.
$1,632.11
Material purchased during year but not used .
1,076.44
Material on hand January 1, 1918, available for new work.
$2,708.55
Unpaid bills due division .
92.79
- $2,801.34
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
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TABLE 5
Appropriation for 1917 $3,000.00
Transfer from Emergency Fund 50.00
SEWER DIVISION MAINTENANCE
Available for 1917
$3,050.00
Net expenditure 3,037.74
Cash balance January 1, 1918
$12.26
Net Expense
Repairing, cleaning and flushing mains.
$920.98
Brattle Street sewer pump.
982.76
Grove Street sewer pump.
937.41
Care and repair of particular sewers.
178.34
*General expense.
18.25
Total
$3,037.74
*Tools and equipment, $15.37; miscellaneous, $2.88. Unpaid bills due division, $17.67.
SUMMARY OF SEWERAGE STATISTICS
GENERAL
Population by census of 1915, 14,860.
Total area of city or town, 5.5 square miles.
Area served by sewerage system, 3 square miles. COLLECTION SYSTEM
For sewage only, 38.39 miles, includes 3.47 miles Metropolitan sewer.
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