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115,690.73
Balance, Jan. 1, 1932.
$49,391.74
*Due on contract.
40,020.84
LOCATION
Net Cost
Aerial Street .
$14,894.37
Field Road. .
4,072.98
Herbert Road.
16,478.23
Lockeland Avenue
19,484.57
Quincy Street.
29,267.15
School Street
22,339.41
Varnum Street. .
11,697.59
Washington Street
37,477.27
Total
$155,711.57
*This amount is the balance due J. P. McCabe, Inc., on the Street Construction Con- tract. To be paid in 1932 out of the 1931 balance, which has been carried forward.
STORM DRAINS
Balance from 1929-1930.
$1,796.18
Expenditure .
1,736.33
Balance, Jan. 1, 1932.
$59.85
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Lowell Street at Elder Terrace (install catch basin) .
$161.56
Eastern Avenue. .
281.99
*7.30
Forest Street (near No. 28-16 ft. of 24" pipe to con- nect brook with culvert) .
86.58
Massachusetts Avenue at Orvis Road (install 3 catch basins)
527.71
Total cost.
$1,057.84
Balance of payment on 1930 contract to J. P. McCabe, Inc.
678.49
Total
$1,736.33
*This work started in 1930, completed in 1931. The 1930 cost and 1931 cost added together to arrive at cost per foot.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
STORM DRAINS
Appropriation for 1931. Expenditure .
$20,000.00
18,336.40
Balance, Jan. 1, 1932. .
$1,663.60
(Carried forward to
1932)
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Appleton Street (connect spring, corner of Massachu- setts Avenue and Appleton Street)
8
12
$13.51
$1.13
Appleton Street (in private lands rear of No. 283)- work in progress-not complete.
248.50
Arnold Street (across Lancaster Road).
24
42
199.42
4.75
Court Street, Court Street Place, and Water Street .. Davis Avenue (2 catch basins at foot of street) .
12,15,16
947
4,247.90
4.49
Draper Avenue (from Mystic bank southerly).
12
222
945.25
4.26
Eastern Avenue (from present end to new school) .
15
786
296.66 2,796.92
3.56
High Haith Road (from Ottawa Road to junction of High Haith Road and Longfellow Road)
12
263
395.84
1.51
High School (complete manhole)
36
147
1,474.08
10.03
Kimball Road outlet (in Emerson Road and private lands)
21
570
2,850.53
5.00
Lockeland Avenue (from Gloucester Street to Temple Street) .
12,15,24
297
*1,671.04
5.63
Magnolia Street (beyond Lake Avenue and private lands)
18
204
928.44
4.55
Mystic Street (relocate 2 new catch basins at the Mys- tic Street culvert and install storm drain from pres- ent end to Old Mystic Street, and install 1 catch basin) .
10
121
502.79
4.16
Park Avenue and Wachusett Avenue (catch basin) Quincy Street (Benjamin Road to Lehigh Street)
15
304
*859.56
2.83
Robbins Road (remove and rebuild catch basin).
20-24
452
2,712.30
6.00
Spring Valley (from near Pleasant Street to Spy Pond) Summer Street (from present end to a point near No. 151).
15
153
800.14
5.23
Total cost of mains.
$19,197.36
Aerial Street awards (this main installed by J. P. Mc- Cabe, Inc., contractor)
204.78
** General expense
2,055.13
Credit stock .
3,120.87
Totals
4,560
$18,336.40
*Transferred to Street Construction-not included in the total cost.
** General expense, tools and equipment, $482.31; miscellaneous, $124.82; Saturday afternoons, $1,110.14; holidays, $254.72; timekeeper, $63.27; stockkeeper, $19.87.
Note: Storm drains installed in new streets by J. P. McCabe, Inc .- Aerial Street, 152 feet; Aerial Street Outlet private lands, 417 feet; Aerial Street Outlet Forest Street, 440 feet; Edmund Road, 498 feet; Field Road, 198 feet; Lockeland Avenue, 151 feet; Park Avenue (reconstructed portion) 585 feet; Quincy Street, 1,362 feet; School Street, 1,530 feet; Var- num Street, 657 feet; Washington Street, 2,694 feet.
Storm drain installed by G. Rotondi & Son in reconstructed portion of Massachusetts Avenue, 1,821 feet.
Storm drain installed under direction of Board of Health-a special appropriation, 98 feet in George Street.
15
40
422.08
10.55
Dudley Street (relocate 2 catch basins now over the culvert)
93.78
High School (near new addition) .
138.21
131.01
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
STORM DRAINS-Special Appropriation for 1931 .. $3,000.00 Florence Ave. and Wachusett Ave. Expenditure 3,000.00
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Florence Avenue (from Renfrew to George Street); Wachusett Avenue (from Florence Avenue to Park Avenue)
15-18
1,804
$3,000.00
$1.66
Totals
1,804
$3,000.00
TABLE 3
SANITARY DIVISION
Appropriation for 1931 $86,000.00
Expended 1931
83,589.11
Balance on hand, January 1, 1932
$2,410.89
Accounts payable 2,113.75
Net Expense
Ashes
$32,888.19
Offal
35,309.18
Paper and Rubbish.
13,149.52
Repairs
800.86
Sundries and Supplies
674.53
Miscellaneous, Salaries and Wages
766.83
Total .
$83,589.11
Accounts Payable (Equipment)
2,113.75
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNT Appropriation for 1931. $12,416.00
Expenditure . 12,197.00
Balance, January 1, 1932 $219.00
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
1930 STREET CONSTRUCTION Appropriation $20,804.49
(Carried forward from 1930) Expenditure . 20,233.31
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$571.18 *Balance carried forward to 1932
1929 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation . $1,407.37
(Carried forward from 1929)
Expenditure . 1,306.02
Balance, January 1, 1932. $101.35
ALTERATION OF WAYS-FRANKLIN STREET
AND LEWIS AVENUE
Appropriation .
$181.01
(Carried forward from 1930)
Expenditure
50.00
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$131.01
*Balance carried forward to 1932
STREET CONSTRUCTION-OLD MYSTIC STREET Appropriation . $71.74
(Carried forward from 1930)
Expenditure . 0
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$71.74
*Balance carried forward to 1932
STREET CONSTRUCTION-SCHOULER COURT Appropriation . $689.63
(Carried forward from 1930)
Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$689.63 *Balance carried forward to 1932
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
ALTERATION OF FRANKLIN STREET AT
BROADWAY
Appropriation for 1931
$222.02
Expenditure . 68.61
Balance, January 1, 1932.
*$153.41
*Balance carried forward to 1932
1930 SEWER EXTENSIONS
Appropriation . $7.32
(Carried forward from 1930)
0
Expenditure.
Balance, January 1, 1932 $7.32
ALTERATION OF MILL AND SUMMER STREETS
Appropriation for 1931 $636.91
Expenditure . 572.95
Balance January 1, 1932. *$63.96 *Balance carried forward to 1932
SIDEWALKS SUMMER STREET BOULEVARD
Appropriation .
$1,746.99
(Carried forward from 1930)
Expenditure . 0
Balance, January 1, 1932 *$1,746.99
*Carried forward to 1932
ALTERATION OF MILL STREET AND MASSA- CHUSETTS AVENUE
$234.68
Appropriation .
(Carried forward from 1930)
Expenditure . 0
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$234.68 *Balance carried forward to 1932
1
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
1931 EASEMENT OF LAND
Appropriation for 1931 $2,000.00
Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$2,000.00 *Balance carried forward to 1932
1930 EASEMENT OF LAND
Appropriation . $2,000.00
(Carried forward from 1930)
Expenditure . 0
Balance, January 1, 1932. $2,000.00
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE WIDENING
Appropriation for 1931. $3,000.00
Expenditure . 2,944.52
Balance, January 1, 1932. *$55.48
*Balance carried forward to 1932
DISPOSAL OF TOWN BARN
Appropriation for 1931
$1,000.00
Expenditure . 970.49
Balance, January 1, 1932
$29.51
SEWER DIVISION
Twenty-two thousand, fifty-six feet of main sewer were laid during the year. Included in this amount is 1,875 feet extended in Arlmont Street under Special Appropriation for Sewer and Water Main and Storm Drain voted at a Special Town Meeting, November 4, 1931. Details of Arlmont Street Construction will be found in Table 7.
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Three hundred and twenty connections were made with the mains.
Details of regular sewer construction and maintenance will be found in Tables 4 and 5.
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TABLE 4
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation for 1931
$87,860.00
Expenditure.
83,093.09
Balance on hand, Jan. 1, 1932 .. (Carried forward to 1932)
$4,766.91
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Aberdeen Road (to service Nos. 7 and 11)
8
120
$266.10 769.85
$2.22
W
Aerial Street (from present end northerly)
10
70
11.00
Appleton Street Outlet Sewer (Wollaston Avenue, Private Lands, Peck Avenue, Wilbur Avenue, and Perth Road)
15
1,821
11,717.95
6.43
Bradley Road (from old end to Winchester Road)
8
87
261.51
3.01
W
Candia Street (to service Lot 16)
8
211
1,901.69
9.01
Cedar Avenue (from present end of main to a point opposite Perkins Street)
8
205
752.64
3.67
W
Columbia Road (from old end to Frost Street)
8
300
534.26
1.78
W
Cutter Avenue (necessary connection with main in Summer Street) .
8
18
131.88
7.33
W
Dorothy Road (to service house No. 50)
8
169
170.44
1.01
W
Dundee Road (to service No. 38)
8
317
838.13
2.64
Eastern Avenue (to southerly side of Scituate Street and to southerly side of Newport Street).
8
53
120.65
2.28
W
Eastern Avenue (from present end of main to Brackett School) .
8
978
3,261.66
3.33
Edmund Road (outlet sewer through private lands) .
8
417
1,823.33
4.37
W
Forest Street (to service No. 242 Forest Street and 1 Heard Road)
8
380
2,293.41
6.04
Forest Street (to service No. 216 Forest Street)
8
676
3,710.95
5.49
Franklin Street (sufficient distance to service new filling station).
8
34
277.50
8.16
Frost Street (from old end to Winchester Road)
8
207
326.97
1.58
W
Frost Street (sufficient distance to service Nos. 10 to 16)
8
310
980.56
3.16
W
Gloucester Street (from Field Road ap. 220 feet) .
8
224
479.66
2.14
W
Highfield Road (at Frost Street)
8
40
61.65
1.54
High Haith Road (from Ottawa Road to connect with sewer main at junction of High Haith Road and Longfellow Road)
8
295
1,268.44
4.30
W
Huntington Road (to service lots 90 and 91)
8
158
1,091.83
6.91
W
Huntington Road (sufficient distance to service lots 73 to 82 and houses Nos. 14, 18, 22)
8
315
1,516.88
4.82
W
Iroquois Road (sufficient distance to service Nos. 58-62) .
8
309
1,137.26
3.68
Lansdowne Road (to service No. 42) . ..
8
281
826.55
2.94
Littlejohn Street (from Lake Street to Mary Street)
8
247
566.33
2.29
W
Lockeland Avenue (at Wildwood Avenue)
8
20
151.68
7.58
W
.
.
TABLE 4 (Continued)
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Martin Street (sufficient distance to service Nos. 11 and 15) .
8
110
481.11
4.37
W
Mary Street (from Littlejohn Street northerly to service Nos. 66 and 68) .
8
270
302.54
1.12
W
Mary Street (sufficient distance to service Nos. 5-7, and 6-8 Homestead Road)
8
176
215.83
1.22
W
Massachusetts Avenue (at Baptist Church) . .
5
14
44.66
3.19
Newland Road (sufficient distance to service Nos. 108-115-122-124, 137)
8
437
1,907.51
4.37
W
Newport Street (sufficient distance to service No. 158) .
8
97
324.47
3.35
Oakledge Street (to service No. 11) ..
8-10-15
162
819.68
5.06
Ottawa Road (from Highland Avenue to High Haith Road)
8
458
1,617.31
3.53
Park Avenue (from Wachusett Avenue to near Fire Station)
8
528
4,228.65
8.01| Part W
Park Avenue Ext. (from Summer Street to near Forest Street)
8
692
3,860.38
5.58
W
Perkins Street (to service Nos. 1 to 14) .
8
202
1,349.85
6.68
W
Perkins Street (sufficient distance to service No. 22)
8
216
1,394.50
6.46
W
Sherborn Street (sufficient distance to service No. 56)
8
48
107.31
2.24 Part W
Spy Pond Playground . .
18
460
1,917.28
4.17
8
529
1,904.87
3.60
Summer Street (connect main in Cutter Avenue with present main at Mill and Summer Street) . Summer Street (from Sunset Road to Park Avenue Ext.) Washington Street (at Candia Street and at Chatham Street)
8
423
2,657.68
6.28
8
69
152.92
2.22
W
Washington Street (sufficient distance to service No. 292) .
8
152
416.20
2.74
W
Wilson Avenue (sufficient distance to service No. 15)
8
130
196.47
1.51
W
*Lancaster Road (from Perth Road to Massachusetts Avenue)
4,847.08
Total cost of mains.
$65,986.06
** General Expense .
13,787.63. .
Particular Sewer Inspection, etc
3,343.59
Credit for stock.
24.19
Totals .
13,435
$83,093.09
.
*Work started but not completed in 1931.
** Tools and equipment, $1,870.17; miscellaneous, $951.17; supervision, $1,300.00; Saturday afternoons, $5,066.11; vacations, $1,539.25; holidays, $1,683.15; auto, $74.42; timekeeper, $617.43; stockkeeper, $302.97; new service High School, $382.96.
Note: "W" indicates sewer and water in same trench.
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SEWER EXTENSION APPLETON STREET ET AL
Appropriation for 1931.
$27,000.00
Expenditure .
25,840.30
Balance on hand, Jan. 1, 1932. . (Carried forward to 1932)
$1,159.70
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Average Cost per Foot
Appleton Street, Florence Avenue to Rhinecliff Street; Florence Avenue, George Street to Rhinecliff Street; Florence Avenue, George Street to Wachusett Avenue; Florence Avenue, Wachusett Avenue to near Claremont Avenue; George Street, via private lands to Florence Avenue; Rhinecliff Street and private lands at Rhinecliff Street; Wachusett Avenue .
8-10-12
4,715
$22,580.14
$4.79
10
302
614.27
2.03
Hillside Avenue from Wachusett Avenue easterly. ..
8
289
615.86
2.13
Oakland Avenue, from Wachusett Avenue to Claremont Avenue Waverly Street, Florence Avenue to Hillside Avenue.
8
1,440
2,030.03
1.41
Totals.
6,746
$25,840.30
Total length in feet of sewer main extensions .
6,746
13,435
20,181
349
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
TABLE 5 SEWER MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Appropriation for 1931
$4,850.00
Expenditure
4,833.52
Balance, January 1, 1932
$16.48
Expenditures
Repairing, flushing and cleaning mains.
$3,511.33
Care and repair of particular sewers
171.73
Miscellaneous
315.14
*General expense
835.32
Total .
$4,833.52
*Tools and equipment, $423.40; Saturday afternoons, $273.17 holidays, $75.40; timekeeper, $63.35.
SUMMARY OF SEWERAGE STATISTICS
General
Population by census of 1930, 36,089.
Total area of city or town, 5.5 square miles.
Area served by sewerage system, 4.5 square miles.
Collection System
For sewerage only, 70.01 miles, includes 5.64 miles Metropolitan sewer.
For sewerage and surface water, 0 miles. For surface water only, 26.92 miles.
Method of disposal, sewerage into Metropolitan sewer, surface water into brooks.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Collection
Mains. (Everything but house and catch basin connection.)
For Sewerage only
For Surface only
1. Lineal feet pipe. .... 369,653 142,120
2. Lineal feet extended during year . . 22,056 18,583
3. Number of inverted siphons, 2.
4. Number of manholes, 1749 and 32 combination sewer and storm drain manholes.
5. Method of flushing. Water service at manhole ends 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 system during the year: entire system once.
10. Cost of flushing per mile.
11. Cost of cleaning per mile. $53.34.
12. Number of stoppages, 5.
13. Method of ventilation, manhole covers.
14. Electric pump chamber, 1.
House Connections
1. By whom made: All connections made under the direction of the Sewer Division, Board of Public Works.
2. Sizes, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15 inches.
3. Number made during year, 320.
4. Lineal feet laid during year (drain layers), 15,758.3.
5. Lineal feet discontinued during year, 0.
6. Total miles in use, 54.50.
7. Number of stoppages coming to attention of Department, 19.
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Discharge of Sewer
1. Estimated population using sewer system, 32,000.
2. Number of buildings connected, 5,981.
3. Daily discharge for year .*
4. Daily discharge for each user .*
5. Daily quantity of factory waste .*
6. Daily leaking into sewers .*
7. Daily leaking per mile of sewers .*
8. Are quantities given under 3 to 7 estimated or measured ?*
*Note: See Metropolitan Sewerage Board Report.
General
Total cost of collecting mains, $996,791.47.
Debt outside of limit, $100,000.
Sinking Fund, $81,478.09.
Serial Notes, $43,000.
Average rate of interest on bonds outstanding, 4 per cent.
Proportion of cost of extensions assessed on abutters this year, 37.21 per cent.
Yearly assessment for maintenance, none.
Method of assessing abutters and rate of assessment, as specified by the acts of 1930, chapter 140.
WATER DIVISION
Eighteen thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven feet of water mains were laid during the year and con- nected with the Metropolitan system. Included in this amount is 1,872 feet extended in Arlmont Street under special appropriation for Sewer and Water main and
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Storm Drain, voted at Special Town Meeting, November 4, 1931. Details of regular water main construction will be found in Table 6. Details of Arlmont Street con- struction will be found in Table 9.
SERVICES
Two hundred and fifty-one new services have been added during the year and ten services abandoned. There are for all purposes, 3,230 on the low, 3,929 on the high, and 3 on the old reservoir system. On the Metro- politan water supply there are 40 services for municipal purposes, 32 sprinkler services, 2 for street watering standpipes, and 40 for sewer flushing purposes included in the above. On January 1, 1932, 266 services were temporarily out of use.
METERS
Two hundred and fifty-one meters were set during 1931 on services installed in 1929, 1930 and 1931. The total number of meters in use January 1, 1932, is 7,088.
WATER MAINS NOW IN SERVICE
LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
RESERVOIR SYSTEM
Size
Cement-Lined Pipe
Cast-Iron Pipe
Cast-Iron Pipe
Cement and Cast-Iron Pipe
Inches
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.
Gates
Length Feet
Hyd.«
Gates
16
2,388
12
6,791
28,161
7,392
10
13,864
22,518
270
8
37,114
48,907
1,576
6
185
101,060
152,021
2,267
4
373
616
1,620
Totals
558
2
5
159,445
308
437
253,995
515
927
13,125
10
12
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TABLE 6
Balance from 1930.
$6,675.47
WATER EXTENSIONS ORDERED IN 1930 BUT NOT COMPLETED
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Number of Hydrants
Number of Gates
Total Cost
Cost Per Foot
Totals
Extension of services . .
$39.32
Hawthorne Avenue (renewal) 682 feet.
12
3,039.77
Highfield Road, to service No. 26 ...
8
125.00
2
238.93
$1.91
*Linwood Street (renewal) 411 feet.
8
764.89
4.26
Park Circle, tar patching main trench.
1,501.94
Russell Street, repair trench .
24.07
Wellington Street (renewal) 440.20 feet.
8
1,066.55
Total .
125.00
2
$6,675.47
$6,675.47
WATER EXTENSIONS
Net Expenditure .
96,236.15
Balance, January 1, 1932
$1,023.85
EXTENSION OF HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Number of Hydrants
Number of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Aberdeen Road (to service house No. 11) .
6
86.60
1
$260.00
$3.00
S
Argyle Road (Aberdeen Road to old end).
6
39.60
1
118.89
3.00
Bradley Road (old end to Winchester Road) .
8
181.50
1
400.35
2.21
S
Brattle Park (new hydrant)
1
1
114.82
Cedar Avenue (old end to Hawthorne Avenue) .
8 & 12
356.00
2
1,061.41
2.98
Cedar Avenue (old end to Perkins Street) .
12
262.50
1
2
1,040.21
3.96
S
Cutter Avenue . .
8
27.50
8
343.00
1
3
785.62
2.29
S
Crosby Street (to service No. 148) .
8
148.00
1
3
677.05
4.57
Crosby Street (old end to old end near Frost Street)
6 & 12
119.80
1
446.65
3.73
.
107.04
3.89
Columbia Road (old end to Frost Street)
Appropriation .
$97,260.00
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EXTENSION OF HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM-(Continued)
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Number of Hydrants
Number of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Eastern Avenue (reset hydrant)
Eastern Avenue (southerly on Highland Avenue and northerly on New port Street)
6 & 8 & 12
36.00
1
180.23
5.01
S
Edmund Road (old end to Carl Road)
8
461.58
3
2,045.31
4.43
S
Eustis Street (to service No. 14)
8
184.90
1
545.35
2.95
Frost Street (old end to Winchester Road)
8
551.25
3
1,825.15
3.31
S
Gloucester Street (Field Road to Lockeland Avenue)
8
237.00
1
597.29
2.52
Grand View Road (old end to old end)
8
413.70
2
4
2,627.06
6.35
Gray Street (Pleasant Street westerly)
8
260.00
1
2
1,186.90
4.57
Grove Street (hydrant) .
1
1
142.93
Harvard Street (at Appleton Street) .
17.00
38.76
2.28
High Haith Road (Ottawa Road to Longfellow Road)
8
312.00
2
1.488.76
4.77
S
Huntington Road (Forest Street to No. 41) .
8
572.00
1
3
2,978.51
5.21
S
Lockeland Avenue (at Wildwood Avenue)
8
34.00
168.04
4.94
S
Lockeland Avenue (at Gloucester Street) .
8
33.00
1
143.81
4.36
Martin Street (old end to No. 15) .
6
122.80
1
1
601.92
4.90
Massachusetts Avenue (at High School)
8
488.00
6
1,339.56
2.75
Massachusetts Avenue (at Schouler Court)
8
50.00
266.84
5.33
Millett Street (Landsdowne Road to Rockland Avenue)
8
260.00
642.61
2.47
Newland Road (old end to Forest Street)
8 & 12
502.70
1
3,019.40
6.01
S
Oakland Avenue (Claremont Avenue to old end)
8
210.40
1
741.38
2.52
Old Mystic Street (Mystic Street to old end)
6
480.00
957.51
1.99
Ottawa Road (High Haith Road to old end) .
8
62.30
1
186.76
3.00
** Park Avenue (renewal 869.40 feet) .
12 & 16
2
4,966.74
5.71
S
Perkins Street (Grand View Road to Cedar Avenue) .
8
528.68
1
3,440.64
6.51
Pleasant Street (Norfolk Road to Irving Street)
8
797.95
5
2,506.37
3.14
Quincy Street (old end to Gray Street) .
8
140.00
I
635.66
4.54
Quincy Street (at Howard Street to Fessenden Road)
8
122.50
2
439.74
3.59
Renfrew Street (Oakland Avenue to No. 194)
8
134.00
1
419.64
3.13
Renfrew Street (Cedar Avenue to old end)
8
410.50
1
3
2,705.25
6.59
Rhinecliff Street (old end to Florence Avenue)
6 & 12
629.20
2
3,077.18
4.89
Summer Street (at Cutter Avenue) .
27.50
120.94
4.40
Wachusett Avenue (old end to Florence Avenue)
6
180.60
424.67
2.35
Washington Street (at Candia Street)
8
12.00
142.72
11.89
.
Washington Street (old end to No. 292)
12
134.60
530.08
3.94
S
Waverly Street (Cedar Avenue to No. 233)
8
200.00
1
582.87
2.91
Waverly Street (Florence Avenue to old end)
8
355.96
1
1,480.18
4.16
Wright Street (Summer Street to Berkeley Street)
8
352.80
1
5
1,454.00
4.12
Totals.
11,168.42
15
79
$50,583.87
S
Park Avenue Ext. (old end near Huntington Road to Cypress Road)
8
289.00
2
682.48
2.36
1
Newport Street (hydrant set)
1
232.11
2
1
S
8
1
S
S
356
6.48
357
EXTENSION OF LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Number of Hydrants
Number of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Brooks Avenue (Varnum Street to Milton Street)
6 & 8
275.20
2
$465.74
$1.69
Burch Street (Lake Street to Mary Street)
6 & 8
203.60
1
373.72
1.84
Dorothy Road (old end to No. 50) .
8
167.40
1
290.28
1.73
Elmhurst Road (Massachusetts Avenue to Brooks Avenue) .
6 & 8
922.60
10
2,524.86
2.74
Herbert Road (Thorndike Street to Chandler Street) .
8
1,448.00
12
3,456.64
2.39
Littlejohn Street (Lake Street to Mary Street)
8
254.00
1
3
871.60
2.43
S
Mary Street (Homestead Road to old end) .
8
597.00
2
4
1,180.53
1.98
S
Massachusetts Avenue (at Orvis Road)
8
66.00
1
539.95
8.18
Orvis Road (Massachusetts Avenue to old end)
8
208.40
2
626.16
3.00
** Pelham Terrace (renewal 330 feet) .
8
1
1
1,186.04
3.59
Pond Lane (old end to Pond Terrace)
8
556.20
2
1,916.68
3.45
Princeton Road (Alfred Road to Pondview Road)
6 & 8
290.40
2
854.22
2.94
Sherborn Street (old end to old end)
8
137.80
1
316.48
2.30
S
Varnum Street (old end to Brooks Avenue).
6
48.00
1
231.41
4.82
Wilson Avenue (Mary Street to No. 15)
6
131.00
224.24
1.71
S
Totals.
5,305.60
4
43
$15,058.55
*** Addison Street.
Aerial Street. .
Chestnut Street.
2
Irving Street.
1
. .
.
1
. .
.
Russell Street .
1
·
Swan Street.
1
Totals.
1
8
Total of Mains
16,474.02
20
132
Total Cost of Extensions
$65,642.42
.
.
.
1
1
..
1
·
.
. .
.
Maple Street. .
.
EXTENSION OF LOW SERVICE SYSTEM-(Continued)
Credit
Extension of service to property line on new streets. Extension of services .
Service installation, private property
$403.99 8,736.26 3,083.28 18,388.07
17.87
tGeneral expense
$30,611.60
17.87
$30,593.73
Net Expenditure .
$96,236.15
+Includes tools and equipment, $4,321.06; miscellaneous, $1,763.46; auto, $5,724.49; Saturday afternoons, $2,018.18; vacations, $1,457.98; holidays, $922.19; time and stockkeeper, $1,361.46; stock, $819.25.
Note: Sewer and water in same trench, indicated by "S."
*Work started in 1930, completed in 1931; $986.99 expended 1930, $764.89 expended 1931; total expenditure $1,751.88, for 411 foot extension at net cost $4.26 per foot. ** Renewal of main.
*** Following new gates and hydrants installed by Water Maintenance.
358
TABLE 7 ARLMONT STREET APPROPRIATION
This appropriation for the extension of Sewer, Storm Drain and Water Main in Arlmont Street from Spring Street easterly was voted at the Special Town Meeting November 4, 1931, for the purpose of assisting in the relief of the unemployment situation in the Town. The following table shows the extensions accomplished and the net expenditure.
Appropriation . Net Expenditure
$28,363.50
24,622.62
Balance.
$3,740.88
WATER EXTENSION
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Number of Hydrants
Number of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Arlmont Street
8
1,712.00
6
High Haith Road.
8
34.00
1
Highland Avenue.
8
34.00
1
Newport Street. .
8
50.00
Scituate Street ..
8
20.00
1
Wall Street .
8
22.00
1
Totals.
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Arlmont Street.
8 & 12
1,710.00
High Haith Road.
8
34.00
Highland Avenue
8
34.00
Newport Street.
8
50.00
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