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Length in Fect
No. of Hy- drants
No. of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Alpine Street (Old end southerly)
133
1
$639.45
$4.81
Bellington Street (Old end northerly) .
6
48
135.84
2.83
Crawford Street (Washington Street casterly)
139
358.58
2.62
Crawford Street (Washington Street westerly)
G
235
1
885.56
3.77
Crosby Street (Old Mystic Street southerly) .
314
804.41
2.56
Dennett Road (Mt. Vernon Street southerly)
401
1
1,364.85
3.40
Falmouth Road West (Crosby Street westerly)
6
193
1
473.75
2.45
Gaylord Street (Old end southerly)
6
180
405.60
2.25
George Street (Oakland Avenue northerly)
6
227
610.91
2.69
Gorham Street (Washington Street westerly)
143
1
335.96
2.35
Grand View Road (Old end northerly)
6
3-1
363.70
4.33
Grove Street (Coleman Road to Massachusetts Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue to Summer Street) ..
1,708
2
3
4,742.17
2.78
Hawthorne Avenue (Okl end to High Haith Road)
359
1
1
1,218.92
3.40
High Haith Road (Hawthorne Avenue southerly) .
3.17
1.
1
1,247.43
3.59
Howard Street (Old end to Bowen Street)
6
189
1
950.17
5.03
6
11
10)
716
2
1
3,547.0]
4.88
Iroquois Road (Old end southerly) .
0
17
. .
Locke Street (Peirce Street to near Lowell Street)
6
1,218
Churchill Avenue (Massachusetts Avenue to Irving Street).
1,366
3
583
2
8.612.15 493.77
2.72
Field Road (Lockeland Avenue to Gloucester Street) . Lorne Road (Sutherland Road easterly)
6
155
12
123
189.05
4.02
156
544.77
3.49
Lockeland Avenue (Massachusetts Avenue to Temple Street)
3.19
6
.
170
431.16
2.54
Gaylord Street (Old end southerly) .
Hutchinson Road (Old Mystie Street to Winchester Road)
$55,000.00 54,982.74
Medford Street (Old end to Chestnut Street)
S
447
6
7
S
48.4
6
-4
S
292
4,724.55
3.81
Newman Way (Massachusetts Avenue to Wildwood Avenue) Newport Street (Old end soatherly)
6
351
1
1
1,245.02
3.05
Oakland Avenue (Waverly Street northerly) .
fi
115
1
150.50
3.92
Oakland Avenue (Wachusett Avenue northeasterly)
169
1
340.46
2.01
Oakland Avenue (Renfrew Street to George Street)
6
266
1
2
730.24
2.75
Rangeley Road (Old end westerly) ..
6
15
37.76
2.52
Renfrew Street (Hillside Avenue westerly)
6
180
1
465.94
2.59
Wachusett Avenue (Oakland Avenue northerly)
6
145
1
283.62
1.96
Washington Street (Gorham Street northwesterly)
6
8
8
255
1
1,030.86
3.92
Hydrant Hospital Road.
273.07
Totals
12,489
26
32
$39,456.25
5.
1
6
625
1
1,519.02
2.43
Mystic Street (Old end to ('hestnut Street)
6
Chestnut Street (Melford Street to Mystic Street)
. .
1
1
TO EXTEND THE LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
No. of Hy- drants
No. of Gates
Total Cost
C'ost per Foot
Totals
Alfred Road (Old end to Spy Pond Parkway)
6
. 6
$199.14
$2.07
Brooks Avenue (Old end easterly) .
6
1
276.92
3.11
Brooks Avenue (Oll en l easterly) .
6
349
1
688.05
1.97
Chandler Stico (Gld end northerly)
6
118
215.20
1.82
Cornell Street (O'd en i to River Street)
6
341
1
669.08
1.96
Ezerton Road (Olt end to Brooks Avenue) .
6
300
1
1
579.20
1.93
Jean Road (Medford Street to Franklin Street)
6
302
1
765.63
2.54
Massachuset s Avenue (Fron No. 214 to No. 22 ))
6
144
273.74
1.90
Melrose Street (Old end to Brooks Avenue)
6
920
2
2
1,900.93
2.07
Milton Street (Old end southerly) .
6
93
284.38
2.96
Milton Street (Old erd southerly) .
6
155
1
1
991.18
2.18
Mystic Lake Drive (Old end to Mystic Valley Parkway)
6
141
352.46
2.50
Mystic Lake Drive (Old end northerly)
6
48
126.70
2.64
Palmer Street (Old end north of Warren Street to old end south of Exeter Street)
6
261
461.52
1.77
Palmer Street (O'd end southerly)
6
1.76
1
920.85
1.93
Palmer Street (Old end to Mystic Valley Parkway)
6
144
257.97
1.79
Rawson Road (Warren Street to near Broadway)
356.64
2.09
Sherborn Street (Old end northerly)
605.23
3.74
Varbin Street (Old end southerly) .
6
265
496.89
1.88
Varnum Street (Old end southerly) .
G
179
1
381.65
2.13
Webster Street (Old end to Mystie Valley Parkway)
6
125
2446.53
1.97
Installing hydrant on Broadway between Monument and Fire Station
1
1
204.63
Pleasant Street 6" gate
25.00
Pleasant Street 10" gate
65.00
Totals
5,182
11
11
$2,936.05
2,936.05
Total. Material purchased in 1925 but not used.
$1,245.92
1,245.92
Grand Totals
17,671
37
13
$54,982.74
*Tools and equipment. $100.34; engineering, $144.10; office, $379.28; holidays, $413.12; Saturday afternoons, $1,531.81; salaries, $90.01; vacations, $264.24 miseellareous, $13.15.
Material on hand January 1, 1925
$4.537.54
Material purchased but not used. 1,245.92
Material on hand January 1, 1926, available for new work $5,783.46
6
171
1
6
162
1
1
1
1
$11,344.52
* General expense
$53,736.82
LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
RESERVOIR SYSTEM
Size
Cement-lined Pipe
Cast-iron Pipe
Cast-iron Pipel
Cement and Cast-iron Pipe
Inches
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hvd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
12
6,791
18,417
8,530
10
11,210
20,843
270
8
22,047
22,496
1,576
6
570
86,068
114,362
1,129
4
870
11,800
1,497
1,620
Totals
1,410
2
5
137,916
263
259
177,615
356
367
13,125
10
12
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TABLE 7 WATER DIVISION
Appropriation for 1925
$7,000 00
Cash on hand January 1, 1925
304 56
Available for 1925
$7,304 56
Receipts from sale of water, 1925
89,741 62
Total
$97,046 18
Net expenditure
96,748 90
Cash balance, January 1, 1926.
$297 28
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE
Maintenance
Net Expenditures $794 66
Totals
Shop and yard
Mains, care and repair
692 11
Services, care and repair
6,976 21
Hydrants and gates, care and repair 1,590 60
Turning water services off and on 166 54
Tools and equipment 1,387 56
Reservoir and Great Meadows 643 31
Meters, care, repair and reading . 5,621 53
*General expense
7,662 57
Total maintenance
$25,535 09
Services
Services, extension of
$13,037 53
Meters, extension of
8,443 59
Total services
$21,481 12
Water debt
$19,500 00
Interest account
4,037 50
Metropolitan water tax
31,458 53
Total
$54,996 03
Grand Total
$102,012 24
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Work outside of division $1,361 40 Materials used that were on hand January 1, 1925 3,901 94
Total
$5,263 34
Grand Total $96,748 90 *Engineering, $192.81; office, $2,242.49; miscellaneous,
$20.83; vacations, $807.17; Saturday afternoons, $1,788.10; holidays, $681.19; salaries, $1,929.98. Material on hand January 1, 1925 $8,790 44
Material used that was on hand January 1, 1925 3,901 94
Material on hand January 1 1926
available for new work $4,888 50
WATER RATES FROM CONSUMER
Year
Meter
1916
$59,043 77
1917
61,633 38
1918
68,059 78
1919
65,067 36
1920
66,694 89
1921
72,163 97
1922
73,830 02
1923
76,144 32
1924
84,390 12
1925
89,741 62
ARLINGTON WATER WORKS Arlington, Middlesex County, Mass. Population by census of 1925, 24,943.
Date of construction, low service, 1872; high service, 1894.
By whom owned, Town of Arlington.
Source of supply, Metropolitan Water System.
Consumption
1. Estimated total population at date, 25,500.
2. Estimated population on lines of pipes, 24,700.
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3. Estimated population supplied, 24,500.
4. Total consumption for the year, 575,384,000 gallons.
5. Percentage of consumption metered, 100 per cent.
6. Average daily consumption, 1,576,400 gallons.
7. Gallons per day to each inhabitant, 63.
8. Gallons per day to each consumer, 63. Distribution
(Including auxiliary supply from old reservoir.)
Mains
1. Kind of pipe, cast iron and cement.
2. Sizes, from 4-inch to 12-inch.
3. Extended feet during year, 17,671.
4. Discontinued, 0.
5. Total now in use, 62.52 miles.
6. Cost of repairs per mile, $11.00 estimated.
7. Length of pipe less than 4 inches in diameter, 2,955 feet.
8. Number of hydrants added during year (public) 37.
9. Number of hydrants (public and private) now in use, 635.
10. Number of stop gates added during year, 43.
11. Number of stop gates now in use, 653.
12. Average pressure on mains at center of town, 100 high system, 56 low system.
Services
16. Kind of pipe, cement-lined, galvanized, cast iron.
17. Sizes, 1-inch to 6-inch.
21. Number of service taps added during year, 636.
22. Number of services now in use, 4,940. .
25. Number of meters aded, 636.
26. Number now in use, 4,940.
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27. Percentage of services metered, 100 per cent.
28. Percentage of receipts from metered water, 100 per cent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT MAINTENANCE
Receipts
Stock on hand January 1, 1925 $8,790 44
Cash on hand January 1, 1925 304 56
$9,095 00
A Water Rates (for building purposes, etc.) $201 80
B Water Rates (meters) 89,539 82
C Total water and meter rents From Public Funds
$89,741.62
7,000 00
K Gross from all sources Expenditures
$105,836 62
Stock on hand January 1, 1926 $4,888 50
Cash on hand January 1, 1926 297 28
$5,185 78
AA Metropolitan Water Assessment $31,458 53
Management, repairs, etc. 24,173 69
BB Interest on bonds and notes 4,037 50
CO Total maintenance
$59,669 72
DD Paid on Public Debt $19,500 00
Transfer to Water Exten- sions 21,481 12
KK
Gross expenditures
$40,981 12 $105,836 62
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CONSTRUCTION
Receipts
R
From Notes issued
$30,000 00
From Public Funds 25,000 00
From Water Maintenance 21,481 12
Stock on hand January 1, 1925 4,537 54
V Total
$81,018 66
Expenditures
FF
Extension of mains $50,800 77
Extension of services 13,037 53
Extension of meters 8,443 59
General expense 2,936 05
Stock on hand January 1, 1926 5,783 46
Cash on hand January 1, 1926
17 26
Total $81,018 66
Respectfully submitted,
CARL H. BUNKER, WILLIAM S. FAIRCHILD, JAMES R. SMITH.
Board of Public Works.
REPORT OF THE JOINT BOARD OF SELECT- MEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
January 26, 1926. Arlington, Mass.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Gentlemen :
The Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Pub- lic Works respectfully submits its twenty-second annual report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1925.
At the annual Town election he'd March 2, 1925, Mr. Nelson B. Crosby was re-elected Selectman for a term of three years, and continued as a member of the Board. Mr. James K. Smith was elected for a term of three years as a member of the Board of Public Works, and by virtue of his election, became a member of this Board.
The Board was organized with Charles B. Dever- eaux, Chairman and John A. Easton, Clerk.
The following appointments were made for the year ending April 1, 1926: Town Counsel, Paul M. White; Town Engineer and Supt. of Public Works, George E. Ahern; Supt. of Wires, William E. Mason.
STREET LIGHTING
The existing lighting schedule was continued dur- ing the year. New lights were installed on all streets accepted by the Town at its annual meeting, ornamental lights were located for the new engine house triangle, and additional lights were installed at points recom- mended by the Supt. of Wires.
Appropriation for street lighting, 1925 ..... .$19,700.00 Amount expended for street lighting, 1925. . 19,233.83
Unexpended balance $ 466.17
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POLICE AND FIRE BOXES
During the past year building permits were issued amounting to approximately $6,000,000, the greater part of which is represented by one and two-family dwellings.
In consequence of this large development, and in order to afford adequate protection, it was necessary to provide additional fire alarm boxes, which were located as follows :
No. 272 Mystic st., cor. Glen Ave.
No. 251 Webster St., cor. Exeter St.
No. 56 Park Ave. Ext'r., cor. Blossom St.
Three additional police signal boxes were installed in the following locations :
No. 33 at Lombard Road, cor. Lombard Terrace.
No. 47 at Park Avenue, cor. Prospect St.
No. 413 at Park Avenue Ext'n., cor. Summer St. Boulevard.
COOPER TAVERN SITE
The sum of $11,400 was appropriated to make a taking of a portion of the land known as the Cooper Tavern site and for the alteration and reconstruction of Broadway, so that the northerly line of this street should conform with the line of Mass. Ave. at Med- ford St.
An offer was made to the owners of the Cooper Tavern property for the land taken and for the sup- posed damage to the property by reason of such taking. The offer was not accepted by the owners, who brought suit against the Town.
The jury trial of this case resulted in an award of $7,573.39, an amount substantially less than that de- manded by the owners, and the Town was enabled to take the land, construct the street, and defend the suit all within the appropriation.
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BROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION
At the annual Town meeting an appropriation of $40,000 was made for the purpose of reconstructing Broadway from the Somerville line to Medford Street. This appropriation, together with $17,500 appropriated the previous year made a total of $57,500.
With this amount in hand the Board requested Senator Warren and Representative Currier to take up with the State Department of Public Works and with the County Commissioners the matter of sharing with the Town the expense of reconstructing Broadway.
As a result of the earnest and untiring efforts of the Senator and Representative the State and County Commissioners appropriated $15,000 each to apply on the construction of a reinforced concrete way twenty (20) feet wide in the center of the road. The Board takes this opportunity to express its appreciation of the co-operation given by the Commissioners of the State Department of Public Works and the County Commis- sioners. On either side of this strip the construction is of mixed asphalt. The reconstruction of the street has been completed, and Broadway is now the finest roadway within the Town.
SIDEWALKS AND EDGESTONES
Granolithic sidewalks were constructed on the east- erly side of Henderson Street and the westerly side of Highland Avenue for a distance of approximately one thousand (1000) feet. Sidewalks and driveways were constructed in front of various pieces of property fol- lowing the application of the owners.
It has been the policy of the Board to each year in- stall additional edgestones on Mass. Ave. and Broad- way, and continuing the custom, a considerable amount of edgestones was laid this year.
NEW STREETS
With the rapid development of the Town, dwellings are fast being erected on available land bordering on
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private ways and vacant lots are giving way to home- steads with large increase in taxable valuation.
From these homes comes an insistent demand for better streets and also the willingness to pay for the im- provement.
Dry, smooth sidewalks are most desirable for the pedestrians, especially the children, and with the pres- ยท ent general use of the automobile good roadways are almost essential, and since the greater part of the cost of constructing the ways is borne by the abuttors, the latters' demand for acceptance of their streets seems justified.
Public improvements have the tendency to make a locality more desirable and to invite the higher class development from which the Town derives its most profitable income. Moreover the fact that some thirty- eight (38) miles of Arlington's travelled ways are still private and unimproved indicates that the Town is far behind in its street construction program, and the Board would strongly urge favorable consideration and ade- quate appropriations for acceptance and construction of new streets.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
The Joint Board sitting as a Board of Survey ap- proved and signed the Board of Survey plans of Ed- ward A. Bailey for the laying out of Appleton Place Ext'n. and Burton St .; of W. J. Robinson for the lay- ing out of Jean Road ; of Jacob Bitzer for the laying out of Fessenden Road; of Sarah R. McFayden for the laying out of Coleman Road and Moulton Road; also the lotting plans of the F. C. Friend Mortgage Corpora- tion for the development of Menotomy Road, School and Revere Streets.
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The Board has endeavored with fairness and im- partiality to administer its department with due regard to the best interests of the Town.
CHARLES B. DEVEREAUX, FREDERIC W. HILL, NELSON B. CROSBY, CARL H. BUNKER, WILLIAM S. FAIRCHILD, JAMES R. SMITH.
Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works.
REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :
In summarizing the activities of this Board for the past year mention should first of all be made of the in- creased number of petitions filed for changes in the Zoning By-Law. As these petitions require advertise- ment, investigation and subsequent public hearing this has resulted in a substantial increase in the work of the Board, especially as a considerable number of the peti- tions are filed just prior to the closing of the warrant for a Town Meeting. In this connection it is our feeling that the procedure now set up for securing changes in the Zoning By-Law and map is not the best which might be devised and as a result the Board is handicapped in carrying out this particular duty. We feel that the petitioner should be required to secure a reasonable num- ber of signatures of residents who would be directly af- fected by the proposed change and that a definite legal description of the property, together with a plan of the same be filed with the petition. It wou'd seem especially desirable that in a case where a change to the business zone is requested a statement also be presented by the petitioner covering the proposed use to be made of the land in question.
In general it has been the policy of the Board to refuse to grant individual changes in single pieces of real property unless there was some outstanding reason why in a particular case this should be done. The Board has found it difficult to do any appreciable amount of
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constructive work in handling these petitions as the Board is confined in its report to the Town Meeting to recommending only, either favorable or unfavorable action on the exact article as it appears in the Town Warrant. On account of the time limits frequently im- posed by the closing of a warrant and the fact that the . only local publication, as required by the Zoning By-Law, can only be made on a weekly basis, there is little oppor- tunity of discussing any possible modifications with a petitioner which might prove beneficial to the Town un- less the matter has previously been informally brought to the attention of the Board.
Our investigation of several petitions has raised the question as to the possible use of the land under consideration, or that nearby, for future Town purposes. In line with this proposition it has been the feeling of the Board that at important street intersections the lots, usually triangular in shape, created as a result of these junctions, should be kept open as far as possible. In one such case the location was brought to the attention of the Board of Park Commissioners for consideration as a possible park site, in a section which within a compara- tively short time will be closely built up. In another case while at least a portion of the property could be used to advantage in the widening of a street at a bad angle crossing and thereby reduce the collision hazard it was necessary in justice to the petitioner for the Board to recommend favorable action, which action if accepted would automatically enhance the value of the property and thereby increase the cost of any future taking by the Town. Along somewhat similar lines the Board has tried to secure a price on land, with the intention of recommending its purchase by the Town, the acquisition of which would tend to complete or improve any existing Town project, as for example our present Town Hall site or civic center.
An examination of our records indicates that during the past year fifteen petitions for changes in the Zoning
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Map have been received by this Board. It is also of inter- est to note that with the exception of minor changes from the single residence to the general residence and a somewhat greater change from the general residence to the single residence zone in a particular section, that the Zoning Map now stands practically as originally accepted in 1924.
It is the feeling of the Board, however, that further changes in the original plan should be watched very carefully as there are still some farm areas which have not as yet been subdivided and which at present are in single residence zone. It is hoped that it will be possible to develop these areas without changing them to the general residence zone and thereby create a somewhat better balance between these two types of developments than now exists.
The Board notes with interest the tendency to de- part from a uniform depth in the business zone as laid out on the original zoning plan in order that the land may be utilized for the erection of the larger and higher type of apartment buildings. The height of these pro- posed structures is at present limited by the provisions of the so-called Tenement House Act but action has al- ready been started towards releasing this Town from the requirements of the act and it is sincerely hoped that this will provide a satisfactory solution to the problem of properly using expensive land which has become un- suitable for single and the ordinary type of general resi- dence development.
We desire at this time to point out that the Board through its affiliations with other Planning Boards, through the co-operation of the State Division of Public Welfare and by contact with its technical consultant is in a position to offer advice or assistance with regard to some of the problems of the Town having to do with its welfare and growth. The Board wishes, therefore, to take this opportunity to offer to any of the other
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Town Boards or to any of its citizens its services and co-operation in any way that may be desired.
The work of preparing a Town Plan which was dele- gated to the Board by a Town Meeting has been com- pleted and this report will be submitted at the March 1926 Town Meeting. In the previous report of this Board reference was made to the agitation against the unsight- ly bill board along the highways. While the problem never reached an acute stage in this Town, nevertheless with the eastern end of one of the main cross country automobile routes which is at the same time a road of national historical interest passing through the entire length of the Town it is very desirable that the officials and citizens of this community do everything possible to prevent any construction of this kind taking place within our boundaries. It is also our duty to support our neighboring communities in their vigorous efforts to combat those interests which would set aside all the favorable legislation so far secured along these lines.
The personnel of the Board has been changed dur- ing the year by the completion of his term of office of Mr. H. B. S. Prescott, who had previously served the Board as Chairman. Mr. Prescott's own professional work and his intimate knowledge of local affairs made his opinions of great value to the Board. This vacancy was filled by the election of Mrs. Carolyn B. Reed. Mr. Charles M. MacMillin was elected Chairman upon the organization of the Board for the current year.
In conclusion the Board desires to acknowledge the assistance which the Town Engineer has rendered in making available the records of his office and in assist- ing both the Board and its consultant. The Board also appreciates the assistance of the Chief of the Police De- partment in connection with its study of certain traffic accidents and likewise wishes to acknowledge many favors from the Board of Public Works and the very evi- dent desire of the Finance Committee to co-operate for
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the best interests of the Town in its consideration of recommendations which it became necessary for the Planning Board to submit to the Town Meetings. Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES M. MACMILLIN, CAROLYN B. REED, CYRUS E. DALLIN, ROBERT W. POND, HERBERT M. DUTCHER,
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
Honorable Board of Selectmen, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: The Board of Park Commissioners beg to report the following report for the year 1925.
The usual routine work of caring for the land under their jurisdiction has been done as far as their ap- propriations have allowed.
The Board has met the first Monday of every month at the Town Hall to go over matters in which the citi- zens might be particularly interested, and we wish at all time to have the citizens understand that this time is for them to make any suggestions and constructive criticisms.
At the different meetings of the Board, there have been several projects studied with the result that they recommended and inserted in the Warrant, an article to transfer from the joint control of the sub-committee of the School Committee and Park Department, the so- called Crosby School Play Ground, as we feel that this should be under the control of the Park Commissioners.
We also studied the need of additional parks and play grounds, and while we feel that the town eventu- ally should have more area devoted to park purposes, at present this could be postponed on account of the very heavy expenses the Town are now under.
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