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1,160.33
$6,728.24
*Stock, $431.73; Miscellaneous, $29.00; Saturday Afternoons and Holidays, $196.71.
Note-Storm Drains installed in connection with 1938 Street Construction.
Brookdale Road, 208.80 ft. 12-inch pipe. Park Avenuc Extension, 560 ft. 12-inch pipe. Quincy Street, 1 Catch Basin. Wachusett Avenue, 7 New Catch Basins, 3 Rebuilt.
Storm drains installed in connection with 1937 Street Construction :
Endicott Road, 452.25 feet 12 inch. Peck Avenue, 390 feet, 12 inch.
Lanark and Kilsythe Road, outlet drain, 428 fect 24 inch.
Kilsythe Road, 147.40 feet, 12 inch. Selkirk Road, 297.91 feet, 12 inch.
Lennon Road, 385.22 feet, 12 inch. Sunsct Road, 314.29 feet, 12 inch. Temple Street, 255.38 feet, 12 inch.
The following work was done by the W. P. A .:
Clark Street at Mill Brook-1 Catch Basin. Locke Street at Mill Brook-2 Catch Basins.
Installed by Metropolitan District Commission:
River Street at Bridge, 28.40 fect, 12 inch., 135.70 feet, 20 inch.
Installed by Private Contractor:
Eliot Road, 1057 feet, 15 inch. Stevens Terrace and Outlet, 247.96 feet, 12 inch.
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TABLE III
SANITARY DIVISION
Appropriation for 1938
$85,872.00
(Wages, Equipment and Materials
$84,000.00
Personal Services
1,872.00)
Expenditure
85,871.95
Balance, January 1, 1939
$0.05
Expenditure
Ashes, Paper and Rubbish
$42,772.37
Offal
39,942.34
Supplies and Sundries
200.86
Miscellaneous
1,084.38
Personal Services
1,872.00
$85,871.95
SEWER DIVISION
Seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy and 64/100 feet of main sewers were laid during the year, ten thousand four hun- dred ninety-four and 94/100 by the Public Works Department, four thousand nine hundred seventy-seven and 87/100 by the W. P. A., and two thousand four hundred ninety-seven and 83/100 by private developers.
Two hundred and one particular sewer 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 IV
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation for 1938
$20,000.00
Ext. of Sewers
$19,000.00
Balance from 1937
3,095.88
Resurfacing
200.00
Tools and Equipment
800.00
$23,095.88
Expenditure
15,106.67
Balance, January 1, 1939
$7,989.21
(Carried forward to 1939)
LOCATION
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Cost per Foot
Bellington Street
8 in.
167.70
$561.48
$3.35 W
Cabot Road-At Lake Street (1 manhole).
8 in.
24.00
213.30
5.34
Cedar Avenue (material and inspection only)
8 in.
360.00
x233.73
W
Chester Street (to service house No. 42).
8 in.
77.62
355.70
4.54 W
College Ave. (to service Adamian property junction College Ave. and Mystic St.
8 in.
70.6
297.30
4.21 W
Colonial Drive at Lake Street (1 manhole) ...
15 in.
24.00
257.59
7.19
Concord Highway (inspection and laying pipe)
W
Eustis Street
8 in.
208.00
777.75
3.74
Fayette Street and Glenburn Road (not completed)
8 in.
332.00
1,254.03
W
Glenburn Road
8 in.
405.28
1,775.92
4.38
Gray Street at Stevens Terrace (1 manhole)
8 in.
30.00
267.91
6.07
Hillcrest Street (to service house No. 38) ...
8 in.
106.36
390.98
3.67 W
Hodge Road (to service house No. 30) ..
8 in.
148.51
332.59
2.24 W
Kelwyn Manor (inspection and takings) ...
xxx133.96
W
Monadnock Road
8 in.
102.51
222.05
2.17 W
Newport Street (to service house No. 186) ..
8 in.
128.35
375.81
2.93 W
Park Avenue Extension (pipe only in conn. w / st. con.) ..
8 in.
130.00
×36.40
Renfrew Street (from Oakland Avenue to service No. 160).
8 in.
286.09
751.60
2.63 W
Rockmount Road (to service house No. 6)
8 in.
102.00
364.73
3.58 W
Stevens Terrace (takings and inspection) ..
293.9 )
671.03
1.96 W
8 in.
181.38
317.61
1.75 W
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....
Summer Street and Brookdale Road to No. 29 Summer Street (Summer Street old end to Brookdale Road) Summer Street (on northwest side, northwest from Richfield Road)
8 in.
48.82)
xxx87.62
W
xx184.62
Part
$20,000.00
Summer Street (Edmund Road to Thorn Road)
8 in.
104.00 225.00
382.95) 845.27)
3.73 W
Summer Street (At Forest Street)
8 in.
Thorndike Street (to service house No. 5)
8 in.
29.71
52.10
1.75
Town Yard (material and laying pipe -- W. P. A. Labor-not completed)
x84.13 80.89
Williams Street (manhole at No. 75) ...
8 in.
362.41
1,223.54
3.38 W
Wilton Development (inspection and laying main Windmill Lane)
xxx72.76
W
Windmill Lane (at Hutchinson Road) (1 manhole)
8 in.
51.00
438.31
7.00
Total cost of mains *General Expense Resurfacing
1,349.78
200.00
Tools and Equipment
513.23
Totals
$10,984.94
$15,106.67
*Stock (credit), $467.97; Particular Sewers, $277.38; Miscellaneous, $374.89; Saturday Afternoons and Holidays, $1,165.48. x Cost of material and inspection only. (Labor by W. P. A.)
xxCost of inspection only. (Labor by W. P. A. Material from fund for W. P. A. projects) xxx Cost of inspection only. (Material furnished and installed by Developer.)
Notes: Sewer mains installed in connection with 1937 Street Construction. (Labor by W. P. A.) Lanark Road, Peck Avenue to old end-186.43 feet of 8 inch.
Peck Avenue, Lanark Road to Third Street-177.04 feet of 8 inch. Lennon Road-51 feet of 8 inch.
Sunset Road, Summer to Blossom Street-623.41 feet of 8 inch. Sewer mains installed under W. P. A. projects. (Material from material fund for W. P. A. projects. Labor by W. P. A.): Concord Turnpike, from near Lake Street to near Pleasant Street-420.71feet of 10 inch. Concord Turnpike, from near Lake Street to near Pleasant Street-733.39 feet of 12 inch. Laurel Street-90 feet of 8 inch. Park Avenue, Appleton Street to Park Circle-2,205.89 feet of 8 inch-replacing 6-inch main.
Sewer mains installed by Developer at no expense to the Town, other than inspection : Cabot Road-217.4 feet of 8 inch.
Colonial Drive-50.31 feet of 8 inch. Colonial Drive-235 feet of 15 inch. Eliot Road from Colonial Drive to Eliot Park-1,125.69 feet of 8 inch.
Stevens Terrace and Private Lands-594.48 feet of 8 inch. Windmill Lane-274.95 feet of 8 inch.
"W" indicates water in same trench.
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Williams Street (Perth Road to old end)
$13,043.66
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TABLE V
SEWER MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Appropriation for 1938
$7,250.00
(Maintenance of the Sewerage System. $7,100.00
Resurfacing 150.00)
Expenditure
7,209.22
Balance, January 1, 1939
$40.78
Expenditure
Resurfacing
$150.00
Repairing, Flushing and Cleaning Mains
3,727.15
Care and Repair of Particular Sewers.
951.66
Tools and Equipment
367.86
Saturday Afternoons and Holidays
670.79
Care and Repair of Sewer Pumps.
901.43
Miscellaneous
47.31
Relay Main Park Avenue-W. P. A. Project.
. .
393.02
$7,209.22
SUMMARY OF SEWERAGE STATISTICS
General
Population by census of 1935, 38,539.
Total area of town, 5.5 square miles.
Area served by sewerage system 4.60 square miles.
Collection System
For sewerage only, 81.406 miles, includes 5.64 miles Metro- politan sewer.
For sewerage and surface water, 0 miles. .
For surface water only, 42.129 miles.
Method of disposal, sewerage into Metropolitan sewer, surface water into brooks.
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Mains. (Everything but house and catch basin connection. )
1. Lineal feet pipe
For Sewerage Only 436,812.80
For Surface Only 222,466.22
2. Lineal feet extended during year
17,970.64
6,068.72
3. Number of inverted syphons, 2.
4. Number of manholes, 2010, and 81 combination sewer and storm drain manholes.
5. Method of flushing: Water service at manhole ends of lateral lines.
6. Method of cleaning: by a special brush drawn from man- hole to manhole.
7. Number of automatic flushing tanks, 0.
8. Number of direct connections with water mains for flush- ing, 44.
9. Number of flushings of system during the year, entire system once.
10. Cost of flushing per mile. $41.10.
11. Cost of cleaning per mile.
12. Number of stoppages, 6.
13. Method of ventilation, manhole covers.
14. Electric pump chambers, 5.
House Connections
1. By whom made: All connections made under the direc- tion of the Sewer Division, Board of Public Works.
2. Sizes, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15 inches.
3. Number made during year, 201.
4. Lineal feet laid during year (drain layers), 9493.2.
5. Lineal feet discontinued during year, 0.
6. Total miles in use, 63.04.
7. Number of stoppages coming to attention of Department, 142.
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Discharge of Sewer
1. Estimated population using sewer system, 35,366.
2. Number of buildings connected, 6901.
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 ?*
* See Metropolitan Sewerage Board Report.
General
Total cost of collecting mains, $1,170,570.10.
Serial Notes, none.
Average rate of interest on bonds outstanding, none.
Proportion of cost of extensions assessed on abutters this year, 43.2%.
Yearly assessment for maintenance, none.
Method of assessing abutters and rate of assessment, as specified by the Acts of 1930, Chapter 140.
WATER DIVISION
Eight thousand and fifty-six feet of new water mains were laid during the year and connected with the Metropolitan system. Two thousand, one hundred and sixty-five feet of mains were renewed during the year. Details of regular water main construction will be found in Table 6.
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SERVICES
One hundred and fifty-nine new services have been added during the year and five services were abandoned. There are for all purposes, 3,303 on the low, 4,582 on the high, and 4 on the old reservoir system. On the Metropolitan water supply there are 60 services for municipal purposes, 33 sprinkler services, and 44 for sewer flushing purposes included in the above. On January 1, 1939, 243 services were temporarily out of use.
METERS
One hundred and fifty-nine meters were set during 1938 on services installed in 1936, 1937 and 1938. The total num- ber of meters in use January 1, 1939, is 7,812.
WATER MAINS NOW IN SERVICE
LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
RESERVOIR SYSTEM
Size
Cast Iron Pipe
Transite Pipe
Cast Iron Pipe
Transite Pipe
Cement and Cast Iron Pipe
Inches
Length in Feet
Hyd- rants
Gates
Length in Feet
Hyd- rants
Gates
Length in Feet
Hyd- rants
Gates
Length in Feet
Hyd- rants
Gates
Length in Feet
Hyd- rants
Gates
16
2,388
12
7,274
34,128
590
7,172
10
16,337
1,228
22,957
2,070
270
8
39,570
1,931
84,364
4,150
2,156
6
102,886
148,410
4,175
4
160
220
Totals
166,067
334
552
3,159
292,407
598
1,275
6,810
13,993
6
23
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TABLE VI
WATER EXTENSIONS
Appropriation 1938
$31,200.00
Balance 1937
1,319.32
$32,519.32
Expenditure 1938
30,115.77
Balance January 1, 1939
$2,403.55
EXTENSION OF HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
Description
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Number of Hydrants
Number of Gates
Total Cost
Cost per Foot
Totals
Bellington Street, old end northerly to Fisher Road
S
185
1
$590.72
$3.19
S
Chariton Street, I lorence Avenue to No. 119
8
157
1
628.68
4.00
Chester Street, old end to No. 42
8
78
454.57
5.83
S
College Avenue, at No. 344 Mystic Street.
8
37
1
365.63
9.88
S
Concord Turnpike, install 3 hydrants
6
20
3
3
563.18
Fayette Street, Glenburn Road to Fisher Road
8
308
1
3
1,348.05
3.39
S
George Street, old end to Florence Avenue.
8
196
589.15
3.01
1. ighland Avenue, Metropolitan connection at Eastern Avenue ..
12
7
1
173.16
Hillerest Strect, Fisher Road to No. 38
8
103
1
618.47
6.00
S
Hodge Road, old end to lot No. 16 *Indian Ridge.
8
162
1
1
631.56
3.90
S
S
365
1
8
88
1
**** Lanark Road, cld end to Peck Avenue.
145
3
Lancaster Road, old end to No. 65.
12
110
878.88
5.49
*** Lancaster Road, Mass. Avenue southwesterly
12
112
1
2,404.82
Monadnock Road, old end westerly.
S
68
451.21
6.64
Re frew Street, Oakland Avenue to No. 160
8
295
1
1,129.71
3.83
Rockmount Road, Richfield Road to No. 6
852.58
1.39
Summer Street, at Thorn Road.
8
125
1
1,383.16
11.07
Summer Street, northerly from Richfield Road.
8
180
1
610.03
3.39
** Sunset Road, Summer Street southerly.
8
115
1
12
183
2
1,394.21
7.62
+Town Yard and Laurel Street southeasterly
6-8
535
6
1,034.24
1.93
Will'ams Street, old end to old end near Perth Road
8
314
1
1,521.49
4.85
S
Hydrants and Gates installed by Water Maintenance.
6
23
8
Total
4,847
7
42
$18,465.35
$18,465.35
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-
8
80
1
521.72
6.52
**** Stevens Terrace and private lands
8
613
1
2
320.13
3.11
S
Newport Street, old end to old end near Arlmont Street.
103
** Kil ythe Road, old end to Selkirk Road.
Wachusett Avenue, at Oakland Avenue ..
1
EXTENSION OF LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
ttConcord Turnpike, old end near Lake Street to old end near Pleasant Street.
10 8-10
1,114 1,728 367
2 4 1
2 18
3,940.98 1,323.41
$2,28 3.61
Hydrants and Gates installed by Water Maintenance.
2
Total
3,209
7
24
$5,264.39
$5,264.39
Total Extensions
8,056
14
66
$23,729.74
$23,729.74
RENEWALS-HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM, WATER MAINTENANCE
tttGray Street, Kenilworth Road to near Oakland Avenue
12
1,066
1
$553.22
ttttGrove Place, old end northerly
8
266
2
Jason Court, entire length
6
180
1
2
741.89
4.12
ttttJason Terrace, entire length
6
195
1
1
++Sunset Road, near Summer Street.
8
117
ttttWindemere Park, entire length
6
249
1
2
Hydrants and Gates renewed by Water Maintenance
6
86
9
11
Total
2,159
15
25
$1,295.11
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S
S
**** Kelwya Manor. Mass. Avenue, Orvis Road northerly
8
2
RENEWALS-LOW SERVICE SYSTEM, WATER MAINTENANCE
Hydrants and Gates renewed by Water Maintenance.
6
6
2
4
Total Renewals
Total Extensions and Renewals
10,221
31
95
$1,295.11 $25,024.85
$25,024.85
#General Expense.
$5,090.92
5,090.92
Expenditure.
$30,115.77
*Installed 1937, measured 1938, 24 ft .- 8", Lantern Lane, 341 ft .- 8", Windmill Lane.
** Installed under 1938 street construction.
*** Entire stock bought in 1938, balance of 396 ft .- 12" to be installed in 1939. **** Installation by private contractor.
+W.P.A. labor. ttEntire cost W.P.A.
tttEntire cost W.P.A., except labor of laying pipe.
ttttRenewed by Water Maintenance. #Stock, $1,483.46; Tools and Equipment, $834.89; Miscellaneous, $152.03; Lost Time, $857.27; Holidays, $502.03; Valve Insertions, $1,261.24.
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375
2,165
17
29
$1,295.11
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TABLE VII
WATER MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Appropriation 1938
$60,974.00
Reserve Fund 7.99
$60,981.99
Expenditure 1938
60,912.66
Balance January 1, 1939 $69.33
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENDITURES
Maintenance
Expenditure
Services, Care and Repair. $14,078.79
Meters, Care, Repair and Reading 10,356.91
Hydrants and Gates, Care and Repair 2,658.96
Mains, Care and Repair
2,157.46
Turning Water Off and On
74.80
Shop and Yard
378.94
Tools and Equipment
1,766.41
Reservoir and Great Meadows
455.75
Administration
6,979.94
Renewal of services and mains
6,097.99
"General Expense
3,649.08
Extension of services, house connections
5,980.95
Meters for new services
995.40
Pitometer Survey
2,934.86
Pit construction for Pitometer Survey.
386.42
Emergency valve insertions
1,960.00
Total Maintenance Cost $60,912.66
* Stock Credit, $2,540.03; Saturday afternoons, $2,194.41; Holidays, $850.85; Vacations, $1,563.25; Miscellaneous Expense, $1,580.60.
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RECEIPTS FOR WATER CONSUMED
Year
1929
$138,158.19
1930
162,283.18
1931
158,301.98
1932
161,355.72
1933
163,426.20
1934
168,370.54
1935
166,506.16
1936
168,318.61
1937
168,239.46
1938
161,015.25
ARLINGTON WATER WORKS
Arlington, Middlesex County, Mass.
Population by census of 1935, 38,539.
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, 41,000.
2. Estimated population on lines of pipe, 40,850.
3. Estimated population supplied, 40,900.
4. Total consumption for the year, 756,426,000 gallons.
Percentage of consumption metered 100%.
6. Average daily consumption, 2,072,400 gallons.
7. Gallons per day per capita, 51.
Distribution
(including auxiliary supply from old reservoir)
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Mains
1. Kind of pipe; cast iron, cement and transite.
2. Sizes, from 4 inch to 16 inch.
3. Extended feet during year, 8,056.
4. Number of feet renewed during year, 2,165.
5. Discontinued during year, 2,165.
6. Total now in use, 91.37 miles.
7. Cost of repairs per mile, $53.52.
8. Length of pipe less than 4 inches in diameter, 200 feet.
9. Number of hydrants added during year, 14.
10. Number of hydrants now in use, 938.
11. Number of stop gates added during year, 66.
12. Number of stop gates now in use, 1,850.
13. Average pressure on mains at center of Town, 120 high system, 50 low system.
Services
14. Kind of pipe; copper, cement-lined, black wrought iron and lead, 3 inch to 6 inch cast-iron.
15. Sizes, 1 inch to 6 inch.
16. Number of service taps added during year, 168.
17. Number of services abandoned during year, 5.
18. Number of services now in use, 7,812.
19. Number of meters added, 159.
20. Number now in use, 7,812.
21. Percentage of receipts from metered water, 92%.
22. Percentage of services metered, 100%.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Appropriation for 1938 $20,042.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund 220.15
Total Appropriation for 1938. $20,262.15 (Salaries $18,730.15
Expenses 1,400.00
Capital Outlay
132.00
Expenditure $20,253.42
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(Salaries $18,730.15 Expenses 1,398.77 Capital Outlay .. . 124.50
Balance, January 1, 1939.
$8.73
EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS, PLEASANT VIEW ROAD AND BRUNSWICK ROAD
Appropriation (carried forward from 1936) $31.04
Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1939 $31.04
WIDENING OF MILL BROOK FOR STORM DRAIN PURPOSES
Appropriation (carried forward from 1937) $1,419.18
Expenditure 1,419.18
January 1, 1939 0
1936 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1936) $818.35
Expenditure 431.05
Balance, January 1, 1939 $387.80
1935 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1935) $863.23
Expenditure 411.92
Balance, January 1, 1939 $451.31
1933 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1933) $400.09
Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1939. $400.09
1931 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1931) $201.43 ·
Expenditure ()
Balance, January 1, 1939. $201.43
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1930 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1930) $37.68 Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1939. $37.68
1929 STREET CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1929) . $0.15
Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1939. $0.15
SALE OF TOWN YARD BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT Appropriation (carried forward from 1936) $200.00 Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, ,1939. $200.00
SPECIAAL APPROPRIATION ARLMONT VILLAGE SEWER EXTENSION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1936) . $1,507.56
Expenditure 282.97
Balance, January 1, 1939. $1,224.59
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, ARLMONT VILLAGE WATER EXTENSION
Appropriation (carried forward from 1936) $59.04
Expenditure 0
Balance, January 1, 1939. $59.04
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES R. SMITH, LOREN W. MARSH, WILLARD A. WALLACE, Board of Public Works of Arlington.
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REPORT OF THE JOINT BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Arlington, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen :
The Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works respectfully submit their Thirty-fifth Annual Report for the year ending December 31, 1938, in accord with Section 3 of Article 3 of the Town's By-Laws.
At the Annual Town Election held March 7, 1938, Mr. Harold M. Estabrook was re-elected a member of the Board of Selectmen for a term of three years, and Mr. Willard A. Wallace was elected a member of the Board of Public Works for a like term, and, by virtue of such elections, both became members of this Board. The Board organized with Mr. George H. Lowe, Jr. as Chairman.
Regular meetings were held at 7 o'clock P. M. on the sec- ond and fourth Tuesdays of each month, excepting the months of July and August. Twenty regular and twenty special meet- ings were held during the year.
Elsewhere in the Town Report details are shown of the activities of the various departments under the jurisdiction of the Joint Board. The information contained therein is further amplified by the following facts :
NEW STREETS
Of the thirteen applications for the laying out of new streets which came before the Board for consideration, nine
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were favorably passed upon and recommended to the Town for acceptance and construction. Of this number, the following five streets were accepted at the Annual March Meeting:
Andrew Street, from Allen Street to Foster Street Brookdale Road, from Summer Street to Mystic Street Park Avenue Extension, from Summer Street to Forest Street
Quincy Street, from Benjamin Road to Gray Street Wachusett Avenue, from Florence Avenue to Park Avenue
All of the foregoing have been constructed excepting Brook- dale Road, which is ninety per cent finished and will take but a short time to complete when the weather permits.
The appropriation made for this purpose was in the amount of forty-six thousand, fifty-nine (46,059) dollars and ninety-six (96) cents. The Federal Government again co- operated by furnishing the labor through the Works Progress Administration, and the work was carried out under the direc- tion and control of the Board of Public Works.
The eight streets which were carried over from the previ- ous year have also been completed.
Details with reference to the cost of materials, equipment, etc., appear in the report of the Board of Public Works.
STREET LIGHTING
The street lighting schedule has continued as in previous years. Additional lighting has been provided on private and public ways where it has been deemed necessary.
SIDEWALKS AND EDGESTONES
The Annual March Meeting appropriated ten thousand (10,000) dollars for the construction of permanent sidewalks and the installation of edgestones on accepted ways. Again
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the Board obtained the co-operation of the Federal Govern- ment in furnishing the labor for this work through the Works Progress Administration, thus realizing a great financial sav- ing to the property owners and enabling the Town to perform an increased amount of this type of work.
Portions of the existing sidewalks in Bow Street, Brant- wood Road, and Lake Street were reconstructed of bituminous concrete (black top) upon application of the property owners.
NEW BOARD OF SURVEY PLANS
The Board, sitting as the Board of Survey, took favorable action on the following plans presented for consideration :
1. Stevens Terrace 8. Cabot Road
2. Princeton Road
9. Sheraton Park
3. Putnam Road 10. Pioneer Road
4. Cheswick Road 11. Bay State Road
5. Eliot Road
12. Spy Pond Parkway
6. Eliot Park
13. Roanoke Road
7. Colonial Drive,
The street numbered 1 is located between Coolidge Road and Pine Ridge Road, running from 91 Spring Avenue northeast- erly, and was formerly known as the Higgins property. The streets numbered 2 to 13 inclusive comprise the area on the westerly side of Lake Street, from Spy Pond Lane to St. Jerome's Church, formerly a part of the Wyman Farm.
Tentative approval was given the proposed layout and development of the tract of land on the easterly side of Mystic Street known as the Niles Estate.
Exterior lines were established on Rublee Street from Hibbert Street easterly approximately one hundred sixty feet. The establishment of the foregoing lines forestalls the con- struction of buildings within the area so restricted and ulti- mately will result in a saving to the Town.
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ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Regarding the proposed Lowell Turnpike which has been mentioned in previous reports, the Board has recently been informed by the Division of Metropolitan Planning of its rec- ommendation to the General Court of the adoption of a six- year program of highway and parkway development in the Metropolitan District, and that among the projects listed is one which will provide for a new highway to connect the Lowell Turnpike, when it is reconstructed, with the new Con- cord Highway, thus carrying the traffic which the Lowell Turn- pike will eventually bear, to the Concord Highway and thence to Boston, by-passing Lexington and Arlington, and thus re- lieving the towns of serious congestion. From examination of the maps and plans, it appears that such route is proposed to start at a point near the junction of Maple Street, Lexing- ton, and the Lowell Turnpike, continuing over land known as the Great Meadows, which is the property of the Town of Arlington, to a point near the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street in Lexington, continuing along undeveloped land easterly of Pleasant Street, connecting with Watertown Street, and thence to the Concord Highway.
The Town of Arlington took water rights in the Great Meadows about the year 1870, and it is the feeling of the Board that in the event of the construction of a highway through said land it would jeopardize such rights of the Town and inter- fere with the operation of the said Great Meadows as a source of supply to a water system of which there are many consum- ers. Consequently, the Board has been recorded as opposed to the use of any part of this land as a route for such a highway. It seems to us that it would be far more desirable to locate this connection at a point easterly of the route now proposed by the Division of Metropolitan Planning.
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