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The pile of rocks at the "Foot of the Rocks" has, for some time past, shown signs of insecurity. Several of the larger boulders had fallen out and the Commission decided that the remainder of the pile was a menace, as another winter's frosts might throw out more boulders, which could find their way to Lowell Street. Estimates were obtained for rebuilding the pile of rocks with suitable foundation and the upper stone securely laid, but the cost was prohibitive, and as a previous Town Meeting failed to appropriate money for this purpose the Com- mission has had the pile of rocks razed, and it remains to be determined whether or not the monument shall be rebuilt.
The various grass plots usually in the charge of the Park Commission have been cared for during the Summer and the gateway at Menotomy Rocks Park has been completed by the mounting of a tablet suitably inscribed.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM W. CROSBY, Chairman Park Commission.
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REPORT OF TREE WARDEN
RECEIPTS
Appropriation .
$1,100.00
Board of Public Works, Medford Street fire
350.00
Private estates, stock and trees
115.17
Total receipts
$1,565.17
Total receipts .
$1,565.17
Total expense.
1,563.66
Unexpended balance $1.51
EXPENDITURES
Labor
Materials
. Planting
$117.59
Trimming
174.19
Fertilizing
7.75
Removing trees
338.10
Storm Damage
81.69
Storehouse.
30.39
Census. .
7.25
Corn Borer
123.30
Scale Spray
15.00
Team Hire.
$50.25
Supplies, rent, repairs
175.06
Express and freight
15.26
Trees .
406.83
Loam and manure
21.00
$895.26
$668.40
668.40
Total expenditures.
$1,563.66
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REPORT OF TREE WARDEN
LOCATION AND NATURE OF WORK PLANTING TREES
Amsden Street 5, Bartlett Avenue 2, Broadway 23, Brattle Street 4, Brantwood Road 2, Appleton Street 2, Central Street 3, Everett Street 5, Fairmont Street 15, Farrington Road 10, Grafton Street 2, Cleveland Street 3, Glen Avenue 2, Harvard Street 2, Harlow Street 3, Kensington Road 2, Massachusetts Avenue 29, Magnolia Street 3, Mt. Vernon Street 2, Melrose Street 4, Milton Street 3, Mystic Street 2, Marathon Street 10, Medford Street 9, Freeman Street 1, Norfolk Road 4, Newcomb Street 1, Orvis Road 11, Park Street 3, Rangeley Road 30, Thorndyke Street 22, Trowbridge Street 1, Randolph Street 4, Varnum Street 8, Windsor Street 3, Warren Street 8, Wyman Terrace 12, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery 1. Total, 256 trees.
REMOVING TREES
Massachusetts Avenue 6, Pleasant Street 6, Lake Street 3, Wellington 5, Mystic Street 1, Court Street 1, Academy Street 1, Park Avenue 3, Florence Avenue 2, Summer Street 2, Grafton Street 2, Medford Street 8. Total, 40 trees.
CORN BORER
All high standing weeds were cut and burnt on the following lots: Meadowbrook Park, High School, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Mystic Street Gravelpit and School site on Forest Street.
TRIMMING
The dead and dangerous limbs were removed on the following streets. A large amount of trimming must be done this year as a number of our shade trees have branches which hang low making it dangerous for travel. A partial trimming has been done on the following streets: Massachusetts Avenue, Pleas- ant Street, Park Avenue, Clarendon Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Westminster Avenue, Bartlett Avenue and Jason Street.
SCALE SPRAYING
The soft maples were badly infested with the Collony Maple Scale and should be sprayed early this spring. The Scurvy and
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Oyster Shell Scale are on many of our maples; especially is this so on Massachusetts Avenue from Grove Street to Jason Street. These trees I have sprayed with sulphur and lime using lead as a spreader. The maples on Highland Avenue and a few on Jason Street have been affected with the Gleosporiun disease, and it is necessary in order to hold the foliage to spray with Bordeaux mixture.
PRIVATE WORK
In addition to the work performed above, this department has taken care of the public parks in the Town and also has sent men to private parties with the understanding that they reim- burse the Town for actual cost. The following is a summary of receipts and labor on private work and parks:
Received from Park Commission. $187.48
Received from Public Library . 31.69
Received from Board of Public Works 26.50
Received from private estates
499.17
Total $744.84
Labor on parks.
$187.48
Labor on lawn Public Library
31.69
Labor on Arberdeen Road . 26.50
Labor on private estates
499.17
Total $744.84
I would recommend that the sum of $1,250 be appropriated this year. This is practically a reduction of $200 as we received last year $1,100 for an appropriation and $350 awarded us by the Board of Public Works.
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL M. DALEY, Tree Warden.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
The Board of Public Works herewith submits its annual report for the year ending December 31, 1919.
At the Town Meeting held on March 3, 1919, Loren W. Marsh was elected member of the Board for the term of two years to finish out the term of office from which Samuel E. Kimball, who was elected March 4, 1918, for a period of three years, resigned on July 1, 1918. Clarence A. Moore was elected member of the Board for the term of three years vice Arthur Birch, whose term of office then expired. The Board organized on March 3 with the choice of Thomas D. Kennedy as Chairman.
APPOINTMENTS
At a meeting held March 3, Harold N. Willis was appointed Clerk of the Board, Water Registrar, Purchasing Agent and Bookkeeper. On March 10, George E. Ahern was appointed Superintendent of Public Works. These appointments were for the year ending April 1, 1920.
MEETINGS
The regular meetings are held each Monday evening. During the year the Board held forty-nine regular meetings and one special meeting.
The following are the net expenditures made under the direction of the Board.
Highway Division
$78,196.95
Sewer Extensions
8,598.08
Sewer Maintenance 4,082.87
Water Extensions
9,066.54
Storm Drains
4,302.35
Summer Street Construction
4,614.11
Aberdeen Road Extension
599.67
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Water Maintenance (includes interest, Town debt and Metropolitan Water Assessment) Health Department
74,051.77
23,531.75
Snow and Ice
3,261.25
$210,305.34
HIGHWAY DIVISION /
Whereas in 1918 no reconstruction street work was done, the Board determined if possible, despite that but $5,000 was directly available for that purpose, to this year reconstruct a portion of Massachusetts Avenue. In order to take from the Highway Appropriation a sufficient amount to be added to the $5,000 set aside for that purpose, about $7,000 additional being needed, very strict attention to general maintenance work was given with the idea of doing only what appeared absolutely necessary, the Board feeling that this reconstruction work would reduce the cost of future maintenance. Thanks to the ever watchful care of our Superintendent, the cost of this maintenance work was kept down and the Board was able to reconstruct a section on the north side of Massachusetts Avenue from Water Street to about twenty-five feet above Schouler Court. This piece of road was reconstructed of asphalt ma- cadam penetration method, a type of road much used by the Massachusetts Highway Commission on state highways and by several cities. The use of asphalt eliminates the necessity of yearly top treating with tar.
Permanent tar sidewalks were patched and the coming year more work should be done along this line as many of this style of sidewalk have not been treated at all since their con- struction years ago and now require certain repairs. The dirt sidewalks received considerable attention, being brought up to grade and treated with cinders or stone dust.
Storm drains were carefully gone over and cleaned when necessary.
The changed condition of traffic on our highways, the gradual disappearance of horse-drawn vehicles, their place being taken by automobiles, light and heavy trucks, and the great increase within the last ten years in the number of vehicles
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on our streets, necessitates a different class of road construction from that which gave good service ten or more years ago, and the Board believes that the construction of a permanent type of roadway, although more expensive in the first place, will in the end be much more economical by reason of decreased maintenance cost. It might be interesting right here to give the result of investigations which have been made by the State of changes in number and character of traffic on the road. In 1909 and again in 1912, 1915 and 1918, the State stationed men for fourteen hours per day for seven days on certain heavily traveled roads throughout the state and found that in the nine years covered by their investigations light horse drawn vehicles have decreased 7312%, heavy horse drawn vehicles 51%, automobiles and light trucks have increased 604%, heavy trucks 341% in six years, as there were few heavy trucks prior to 1912, and the total number of vehicles has in- creased 243%. This showing in itself is certainly a plea for permanent construction on through streets, a plea which has been heard throughout the country, to which many states have already lent their ears and have made liberal appropriations of public money with which to meet the changed condition.
The Board takes this opportunity of notifying the citizens of Arlington that unless they take heed and make liberal ex- penditures annually for this purpose, the time will come and that before many years, when most of our heavy traffic streets will have reached a condition where patching will be impossible and general reconstruction necessary.
The Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works turned over to this Board certain reconstruction work on Sum- mer Street, between Mystic and Brattle Streets; $4,614.11 was expended on this work and $599.67 on Aberdeen Road Extension.
Reference to Tables 1 and 2 will show the details of main- tenance and construction.
The value of the property controlled by the Highway Division, January 1, 1920, amounted to $26,240.32, classified as. follows:
Horses, vehicles, machinery and tools
$20,765.92:
Buildings and appurtenances
4,500.00
Material available for new work 974.40
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TABLE 1
Appropriation for 1919 Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages
$76,050.00
HIGHWAY DIVISION
2,245.38
Available for 1919
$78,295.38
Total net expenditure
78,196.95
Balance January 1, 1920
$98.43
Net Expense
Care and repair of streets
$15,747.37
Care and repair of sidewalks .
5,379.53
Care and repair of storm drains and catch basins.
3,932.59
Tar treatment and prevention of dust
15,153.99
Care and purchase of horses and teams .
3,693.65
Street signs .
636.55
Tools and equipment .
1,542.20
Repair of temporary tar sidewalks ..
976.48
Maintenance of stable and sheds, Summer Street.
1,629.11
Repair of permanent sidewalks ..
816.81
Reconstruction of Massachusetts Avenue ..
12,268.92
Installing edgestone on Massachusetts Avenue.
1,482.26
Repairing sidewalk and edgestone, Medford Street
1,845.38
*General expense. .
13,629.35
tWork outside of division
52.53
¡Material used that was on hand January 1, 1919.
484.71
Total
$78,196.95
*Automobiles, $3,444.68; office, $396.16; engineering, $82.95; miscellaneous, $310.71; holidays, Saturday afternoons and vacations, $7,467.91; salaries, $1,460.00; timekeeper, $168.72; Town Yard, $298.22. ¡Credit.
Material on hand January 1, 1919
$1,459.11
Material used that was on hand January 1, 1919.
484.71
Material on hand January 1, 1920, available for new work. . $974.40
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TABLE 2
Appropriation for 1919
$4,000.00
Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages 16.57
SNOW AND ICE
Available for 1919
$4,016.57
Expenditure 3,261.25
Cash on hand January 1, 1920 $755.32
Appropriation for 1919
$5,000.00
Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages 62.99
STORM DRAINS
Available for 1919
$5,062.99
Expenditure 4,302.35
Cash on hand January 1, 1920
$760.64
Net Expense
Bow and Oakledge Streets
$2,991.70
Private lands Number 1083 Massachusetts Avenue.
489.09
Mill Lane .
288.81
Rear of High School .
179.02
Rear of Highland Hose House
22.48
*General expense
331.25
Total
$4,302.35
*Use of tools, $60.00; engineering, $48.76; Saturday afternoons, $222.49.
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HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Twenty-two thousand, three hundred dollars were appro- priated by the Town at the March Meeting for the collection of ashes, rubbish and offal. This was a reduction of $1,390 from the amount requested.
Early in the season it became apparent that the appropri- ation would not hold out until the end of the year unless the regular service was curtailed. To accomplish this, monthly collections only of ashes and rubbish were made during June, July, August and September. Many of the citizens objected and the Board was criticised, but unless this had been done the appropriation would have been exhausted at a time when most needed.
During the year the equivalent of 7,460 single cart loads of ashes were collected and hauled by the various teams, an increase of about 2% over the previous year. Nine hundred and nine wagon loads of waste material were collected, a decrease of about 16%. The collection of garbage amounted to 346 cords, an increase of 7% for the year.
In 1920 it is proposed to extend the collections into Sylvia, Hibbert and other streets in that section where heretofore no service has been rendered, and where the Board of Health now deems this work necessary. The taking on of this new territory, together with the natural growth of the Town and the increased rates for labor, will greatly increase the cost of the work. It is to be hoped that if full service is desired the will vote the appropriation that will be requested.
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TABLE 3
Appropriation for 1919 Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages
$22,300.00
1,231.84
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Available for 1919
$23,531.84
Expenditure
23,531.75
Cash balance January 1, 1920
$0.09
Expense
Offal.
$10,109.47
Ashes .
9,696.71
Paper and rubbish.
2,556.12
Superintendence .
399.43
Repairs.
521.92
Supplies and sundries
248.10
Total
$23,531.75
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SEWER DIVISION
Three thousand, seven hundred and thirteen feet of main sewer were laid during the year and one hundred and four 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, 1920, amounts to $4,485.18, as follows:
Tools and equipment
$1,419.35
Buildings and appurtenances
400.00
Two pumping plants
1,900.00
Material available for new work
765.83
TABLE 4
Appropriation for 1919
$8,000.00 265.45
Cash balance January 1, 1919
for
Transfer from Appropriation Laborers' Wages 333.60
Available for 1919
$8,599.05
Net expenditure
8,598.0S
Cash balance January 1, 1920
$0.97
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Davis Avenue (Meadow Brook sewer westerly)
8
620
$1,204.36
$1.94
Draper Avenue (Meadow Brook sewer westerly).
8
805
1,643.15
2.04
Fairview Avenue (Meadow Brook sewer westerly)
8
335
557.87
1.66
Fountain Road (Gray Street southwesterly)
8
780
1,999.50
2.56
Freeman Street (Old end to Elmhurst Road
S
159
253.13
1.59
Gray Street (Robbins Road to Fountain Road)
S
251
805.24
3.21
Meadow Brook (Davis Avenue to Fairview Avenue) .
15
543
1,689.62
3.11
Norcross Street (Old end to Gardner Street)
8
220
525.79
2.39
-
Total
$8,678.66
*General expense.
2,005.48
Particular sewers
52.01
+Material used that was on hand January 1, 1919
2,138.07
Grand totals.
3,713
$8,598.0S
*Salaries, $711.25; automobile, $150.00; miscellaneous, $341.09, Holidays, Saturday afternoons and vacations, $803.14.
+Credit.
Material on hand January 1, 1919.
$2,903.90
Material used that was on hand January 1, 1919. 2,138.07
Material on hand January 1, 1920, available for new work ... $765.83
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
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TABLE 5 Appropriation for 1919 $4,000.00 Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages 87.05
SEWER DIVISION MAINTENANCE
Available for 1919
$4,087.05
Net expenditure 4,082.87
Cash balance January 1, 1920 $1.18
Net Expense
Repairing, flushing and cleaning mains.
$1,233.19
Brattle Street sewer pump .
853.07
Grove Street sewer pump .
1,086.28
Care and repair of particular sewers .
519.60
*General expense.
390.73
Total
$4,082.87
*Tools and equipment, $180.21 ; miscellaneous, $21.01; Saturday afternoons) holidays and vacations, $189.51.
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 sewerage only, 39.87 miles, includes 3.47 miles Metro- politan sewer.
For sewerage and surface water, 0 miles.
For surface water only, 10.27 miles.
Method of disposal, sewerage into Metropolitan sewer, surface water into brooks.
COLLECTION
Mains. (Everything but house and catch basin connec- tion.)
For Sewerage Eor Surface
Gnly Water Only
210,548 feet 54,243 feet
1. Lineal feet pipe
2. Lineal feet extended during year 3,713 feet 925 feet
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3. Number of inverted siphons, 2.
4. Number of manholes, 836.
5. Method of flushing. Water service at manholes end of lateral lines.
6. Method of cleaning. By special brush drawn from manhole to manhole.
7. Number of automatic flushing tanks, 0.
8. Number of direct connections with water mains for flushing, 40.
9. Number of flushings of entire system during year, 1.
10. Cost of flushing per mile, $13.05.
11. Cost of cleaning per mile, $13.05.
12. Number of stoppages, 0.
13. Method of ventilation, manhole covers.
14. Miles of permanent undermains, 3.19.
HOUSE CONNECTIONS
1. By whom made, Sewer Division, Board of Public Works.
2. Sizes, 5, 6 and 8 inches.
3. Number made during year, 104.
4. Lineal feet laid during year, 4,358.
5. Lineal feet discontinued during year, 0.
6. Total miles in use, 24.72.
7. Average cost per foot, connections made during year, 91 cents.
8. Number of stoppages coming to attention of Department, 39.
DISCHARGE OF SEWER
1. Estimated population using sewer system, 14,700.
2. Number of buildings connected, 2,520.
3. Daily discharge for year .*
4. Daily discharge for each user .*
5. Daily quantity of factory waste .*
6. Daily leakage into sewers .*
7. Daily leakage per mile of sewers .*
8. Are quantities given under 3 to 7 estimated or measured ?*
*Note: See Metropolitan Sewerage Board Report.
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GENERAL
Total cost of collecting mains, $380,287.31.
Bonded debt at date, $138,500.00.
Value of sinking fund at date, $39,660.05.
Average rate of interest on bonds, 4 per cent.
Proportion of cost of system assessed on abutters, 45 per cent.
Yearly assessment for maintenance, none.
Method of assessing abutters and rate of assessment, as fixed by Acts of .1896, Chapter 282, is 28 cents per lineal foot frontage and 52-100 cents per square foot for area within 100 feet of street line.
FINANCIAL CONSTRUCTION
Receipts
Cash on hand January 1, 1919
$265.45
From Public Funds
2,000.00
From Notes issued
6,000.00
Stock on hand January 1, 1919
2,903.90
Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages
333.60
House Connections 3,805.82
$15,308.77
Expenditures
Mains
$8,678.66
House Connections
3,857.83
General Expense
2,005.48
Stock on hand January 1, 1920
765.83
Balance, cash on hand January 1, 1920
.97
$15,308.77
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION
Receipts
Appropriation from Public Funds $4,000.00
Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages 87.05
$4,087.05
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Expenditures
Repairs on mains
$296.08
Brattle Street Sewer Pump 853.07
Grove Street Sewer Pump
1,086.28
Cleaning and Flushing Sewers
937.11
Care and Repair of Particular Sewers
519.60
General Expense
390.73
Cash balance January 1, 1920
4.18
$4,087.05
WATER DIVISION
Four thousand, six hundred and five feet of water mains were laid during the year and connected with the Metropolitan system. Details of this construction will be found in Table 6.
The value of the property controlled by the Water Division January 1, 1920, amounts to $16,147.07, of which $7,396.82 is invested in buildings, equipment and tools, and $8,750.25 in material available for new work.
SERVICES
Eighty new services have been added during the year and 11 services abandoned. There are for all purposes 1787 on the low, 1498 on the high, and 12 on the old reservoir system. On the Metropolitan water supply there are 22 services for municipal buildings included in the above and 11 for street watering standpipes and 40 for sewer flushing purposes. On January 1, 1920, 131 services were temporarily out of use.
METERS
Sixty-nine meters were set on services installed during 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919. The total number of meters in use January 1, 1920, is 3,246.
LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
RESERVOIR SYSTEM
Size
Cement-lined Pipe
Cast-iron Pipe
Cast-iron Pire 1
Cement and Cast-iron Pipe
Inches
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
12
6,791
17,345
8,530
10
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.
.. .
.
. . . .
8
·
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· . . .
. . . .
...
. . . .
.
. . . .
6
634
61,817
87,081
1,129
4
2,320
· .. .
. ..
11,800
· . .
+
·
.. .
2
·
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.
.
. . .
.
. . . .
Total
2,954
3
5
113,665
215
204
143,055
280
279
13,125
11
12
·
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.
.
· ·
·
. ..
.
11,210
17,878
270
18,646
1,576
. . . .
. .
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.
.
. . . .
.
·
.
.
.
1,497
1,620
608
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22,047
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TABLE 6
Appropriation for 1919 Cash on hand January 1, 1919 Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages
$8,000.00
783.85
282.72
$9,066.57
9,066.54
WATER EXTENSIONS
$0.03
TO EXTEND THE HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
No. of Hy- drants
No. of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
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Bonad Road (Old end to Shawnee Road)
6
102.
1
2
$327.16
$3.21
Glenburn Road (Old end easterly) .
6
276.6
1,019.23
3.68
Hawthorne Avenue (Yale Street to Highland Avenue).
6
450.7
2
1,183.84
2.63
High Haith Road. (Highland Avenue easterly) ..
6
146.
611.68
4.19
*Highland Avenue (Old end to High Haith Road).
10 and 6
486.
1
3
1,621.19
3.34
Iroquois Road (Bonad Road southerly) .
6
479.7
1
3
962.74
2.01
Robin Hood Road (Old end easterly).
6
294.5
1
2
732.63
2.49
Shawnee Road (Bonad Road southerly)
8 and 6
508.1
1
1
1,902.66
3.74
Yale Street (Old end to Hawthorne Avenue)
6
157.6
1
335.28
2.13
Totals. .
TO EXTEND THE LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
6
533.6
1
1
$980.34
$1.84
Fairmont Street (Lake Avenue southerly)
6
550.4
2
2
1,279.42
2.32
Freeman Street (Old end to Elmhurst Road)
6 and 4
233.4
1
2
563.91
2.42
#Sawin Street (Teel Street westerly)
Totals .
994.81
§General expense Material used that was on hand January 1, 1919
4,472.72
Total.
4605.6
10
20
$9,066.54
Grand Totals
§Automobile, $150.00; Miscellaneous, $240.04; Saturday afternoons, holidays and vacations, $564.77; Salaries, $40.00. "Credit.
*Highland Avenue, 467 feet of 10 inch pipe, 19 feet of 6 inch pipe,
+Summer Street, 483.8 feet of 8 inch pipe, 24.3 feet of 6 inch pipe.
#Sawin Street, 226.6 feet of 6 inch pipe, 6.8 feet of 4 inch pipe. Material on hand January 1, 1919
Material used that was on hand January 1, 1919
$5,959.55 4,472.72
Material on hand January 1, 1920, available for new work $1,486.83
3151.2
6
15
$9,473.95
,
Fordham Street (River Street to Rawson Road)
6
137.
246.83
1.80
. .
1454.4
4
5
$3,070.50
1
777.54
3.11
6
250.
1
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Available for 1919 Net expenditure Cash balance January 1, 1920
Totals
.
+Summer Street (Washington Street westerly)
$3,477.91*
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TABLE 7
WATER DIVISION
Appropriation for 1919.
$7,000.00
Cash on hand January 1, 1919 ..
3,752.04
Transfer from Appropriation for Laborers' Wages
530.80
Available for 1919. .
$11,282.84
Receipts from sale of water, 1919.
65,067.36
Total
$76,350.20
Net expenditure.
74,051.77
Cash balance, January 1, 1920 $2,298.43
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE
Maintenance
Net Expenditures Totals
Shop and yard. .
$137.73
Mains, care and repair.
889.80
Services, care and repair .
3,844.23
Meters, care, repair and reading
4,174.09
Hydrant and gates, care and re- pair
1,290.15
*Reservoir and Great Meadows
18.00
Turning water services off and on
87.67
Tools and equipment
858.62
¿General expense.
5,331.45
Total maintenance
$16,605.74
Services
Services, extension of .
$2,038.38
Meters, extension of .
325.14
Total services
$2,363.52
Water debt.
$14,500.00
Interest account.
10,530.00
Sinking Fund. .
3,000.00
Metropolitan Water Tax
24,320.83
Total
$52,350.83
340
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Maintenance Net Expenditures Total
Work outside of division.
: $491.98
Material purchased during 1919 but not used. 2,239.70
Total . $2,731.68
Grand total $74,051.77
*Credit.
¡Salaries $1,388.75, Saturday afternoons and holidays $1,297.14, Vacations $389.21, Automobile $300.00, Refunds $ 7.09, Miscellaneous $271.60, Office $2,220.86.
Material on hand January 1,
1919.
$5,023.72
Material purchased during 1919
but not used .
2,239.70
Material on hand January 1, 1920, available for new work
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