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Hurricane "Donna"
16,008.13
$1,416,479.05
TABLE I GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
$ 87,763.00
Balance brought forward .
2,226.00
Credit from Articles #6, #8, #16, #18
4,074.00
$ 94,063.00
(Personal Services
$ 83,790.00
Expenses ..
6,600.00
Expenses Outside of Commonwealth
400.00
Capital Outlay
3,273.00)
Expenditure (including Accounts Payable) .
93,170.11
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 892.89*
Expenditure
Personal Services
$ 84,553.49
Credit Transfer from Town Hall Account (Partial Switchboard
Operator) .
1,090.67
Expenses, Office Maintenance and Supplies
6,005.71
Accounts Payable . .
556.68
Expenses Outside of Commonwealth
277.86
Capital Outlay
2,867.04
$ 93,170.11
*$405.96 - Capital Outlay Balance Carried Forward
Appropriation .
2,402.67
265
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
TABLE II HIGHWAY DIVISION
Appropriation
$
371,653.06
Credit from Articles #6, #14, #15 10,966.05
Transfer from Finance Committee
26,302.66
$ 408,921.77
(Maintenance and General Account -
Labor $230,171.16
Expenses 45,170.00
Snow and Ice, including Maintenance of Equipment
and Supplies
133,580.61)
Expenditure (including Accounts Payable) .
392,454.81
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 16,466.96
Expenditure
*Maintenance and General Accounts
$ 244,204.68
*Accounts Payable .
14,669.52
** Snow and Ice .
111,963.44
** Accounts Payable .
21,617.17
$ 392,454.81
*Street Cleaning and Maintenance, including Accounts Payable, $79,383.03; Maintenance and Repair of Sidewalks, $6,000.29; Maintenance and Repair of Catch Basins and Storm Drains, $22,511.31; Automotive and Equipment Maintenance, including Accounts Payable, (Automobiles, Trucks, Compressors, Cranes, Graders, Power Shovel, Rollers, Tractors), $9,268.12; Tools and Equipment, including Accounts Payable, $27,289.62; Town Yard and Buildings, including Accounts Payable, $30,840.33; Stock, including Accounts Payable, $5,202.86; Street Signs, $13,069.66; Miscellaneous, including Accounts Payable, $15,580.84; Sick Leave, $18,584.82; Vacations and Holidays, $31,143.32.
*Plowing Streets and Sidewalks, including Accounts Payable, $29,780.51; Removal of Snow, including Accounts Payable, $36,113.16; Sand and Salt Streets and Walks, including Accounts Payable, $33,691.02; Holiday and Miscellaneous, $8,081.22; Maintenance of Snow Removal Equipment and Supplies, including Accounts Payable, $25,914.70. Notes:
Labor
Expenses
Accounts Payable
Highway
$222,559.52
$21,645.16
$14,669.52
Snow & Ice
Removal
58,124.84
33,248.26
16,292.81
Maintenance of
Snow Removal
Equipment and
Supplies
8,903.65
11,686.69
5,324.36
$289,588.01
$66,580.11
$36,286.69
266
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CAPITAL OUTLAY
Appropriation
$ 55,404.00
Balance brought forward
624.18
$ 56,028.18
Expenditure
49,784.29
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 6,243.89
Expenditure
2 - 30,000 1b. Trucks with 5-yard Contractor's Bodies $ 14,971.00
1 - 30,000 1b. Cab and Chassis with Load Packer Body
10,964.62
3 - Model C1434 Pickup Body Trucks
4,611.00
1 - Two-Way Radio
596.15
1 - Front End Loader with 1-yard Bucket .
6,288.66
2 - Hydraulic Crane Catch Basin Cleaner's, mounted on Town-owned Trucks
7,611.66
2 - Used Tool Box Trailers
160.00
2 - Plow Blades and Front Frames, complete with Automatic Hydraulic Lifts
1,481.20
2 - Used Walter Snow Fighters and 1 Waukesha Engine
3,100.00
$ 49,784.29
MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC SIDEWALKS (RECONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PERMANENT SIDEWALKS AND RESETTING OF EDGESTONES UPON THE PUBLIC WAYS OF THE TOWN) Article 40 - 1960
Appropriation
$ 20,000.00
Balance brought forward
9,064.45
Article #6 Credit
463.32
$ 29,527.77
Expenditure
14,447.87
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 15,079.90
CONSTRUCTION OF WAYS (1960) Article 52
Appropriation
$ 239,800.00
Expenditure
178,898.44
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 60,901.56
Expenditure
Alpine Terrace, from Huntington Road to its end .. $ 11,007.10
** Charlton Street, from north of Florence Avenue to Oakland Avenue 47,899.56
** Columbia Road, from Falmouth Road West to Upland Road West . 17,371.90
18,471.97
*Decatur Street, from North Union Street to its end . Kipling Road, from Appleton Street to No. 24 Lansdowne Road, from Hemlock Street to Millett Street
16,474.62
18,339.98
39,438.17
*Longmeadow Road, from Arrowhead Lane to Ridge Street Pheasant Avenue, from Overlook Road to Ronald Road
9,895.14
$ 178,898.44
*These streets constructed by Contract.
** These streets constructed by Contract. Final payment not made on these streets. Balance of streets constructed by Department of Public Works.
(Carried forward to 1961)
267
CONSTRUCTION OF WAYS (1960) (Article 63)
Appropriation Expenditure
7,163.59
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 17,601.41
Expenditure
Apache Trail, from Lantern Lane to its end
$
790.31
Country Club Drive, from Oldham Road to Apache Trail
3,628.03
Greeley Circle, from Tower Road to Tower Road
0
Hadley Court, from Gardner Street to its end
25.97
Lantern Lane, from Hutchinson Road to Ridge Street
47.66
Nicod Street, from Wollaston Avenue to the Circle .
25.97
Nicod Street, from Wollaston Avenue to No. 14
25.97
Pawnee Drive, from Country Club Drive to Ridge Street
2,619.68
Tower Road, from Overlook Road to end of construction
0
$ 7,163.59
All streets were constructed by Developers and accepted by the Town with the above minor expenditures.
CONSTRUCTION OF WAYS (1959) (Article 49-1959)
Balance brought forward
$ 94,223.40
Expenditure
$ 8,298.94
Returned to Treasury
71,773.77
80,072.71
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 14,150.69
CONSTRUCTION OF WAYS (1959) (Article 61-1959)
Balance brought forward
$ 24,977.11
Expenditure
24,516.75
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to (1961)
$ 460.36
Expenditure
Drake Road .
$ 24,441.41
Heath Road
75.34
$ 24,516.75
RECONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN STREETS CHAPTER 90 - 1960 (Article 41 - 1960)
(RELOCATION, ALTERATION, AND WIDENING, CONSTRUCTION OF, SPECIFIC REPAIRS UPON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ALL OR ANY PARTS OF RIVERSTREET, MASSACHUSSETTS AVENUE AND PARK AVENUE)
Appropriation Expenditure
$ 31,900.00
632.36
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 31,267.64
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
$ 24,765.00
268
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SERVICE ROADWAY - SPY POND FIELD (CONSTRUCT A PERMANENT SERVICE ROAD BETWEEN WELLINGTON STREET AND POND LANE ON TOWN PROPERTY KNOWN AS SPY POND FIELD) (Article 29 - 1960)
Appropriation Expenditure
$ 26,800.00
3,092.83
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 23,707.17
ALTERATION OF PARK AVENUE EXTENSION (ALTERATION OF PARK AVENUE EXTENSION ON THE WESTERLY CORNER OF SUMMER STREET) (Article 42 - 1960)
Appropriation
$ 2,350.00
Expenditure
876.26
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 1,473.74
RECONSTRUCTION OF ROADWAY AT CORNER OF OAKLEDGE AND BOW STREETS (WIDENING AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SIDEWALK AND THE CURBING, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROADWAY AT THE NORTHWESTERLY CORNER OF OAKLEDGE STREET AND BOW STREET) (Article 89 - 1960)
Appropriation
$ 1,150.00
Expenditure
1,054.78
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 95.22
RELOCATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF MYSTIC STREET Chapter 90 - 1959
(RELOCATION, ALTERATION AND WIDENING, CONSTRUCTION OF, SPECIFIC REPAIRS UPON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ALL OR ANY PARTS OF MYSTIC STREET - ARTICLE 24 - 1959)
Balance brought forward
$ 54,420.00
Received from State
25,867.39
Received from County
11,445.50
Expenditure
77,464.13
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 14,268.76
(Carried forward to 1961)
$ 91,732.89
269
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
RECONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN STREETS - CHAPTER 90 (1958) (RELOCATION, ALTERATION AND WIDENING, CONSTRUCTION OF, SPECIFIC REPAIRS UPON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ALL OR ANY PARTS OF PLEASANT STREET AND PARK AVENUE ARTICLE 48 - 1958)
Balance brought forward
$ 9,949.04
Received from State .
2,253.36
Received from County .
1,126.68
$ 13,329.08
Expenditure
5,721.06
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 7,608.02
RECONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN STREETS - CHAPTER 90 (1957)
(RELOCATION, ALTERATION AND WIDENING, CONSTRUCTION OF, SPECIFIC REPAIRS UPON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ALL OR ANY PARTS OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, MYSTIC STREET AND SUMMER STREET)
Balance brought forward Expenditure
$ 1,614.78
797.00
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 817.78
RECONSTRUCTION OF STREETS - CHAPTER 90 (1953)
(RELOCATION, ALTERATION AND WIDENING, CONSTRUCTION OF, SPECIFIC REPAIRS UPON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ALL OR ANY PARTS OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, MYSTIC STREET AND SUMMER STREET)
Balance brought forward $ 650.88
Expenditure
425.00
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 225.88
TABLE III
Appropriation . . . . $25,000.00
Balance brought forward 13,363.36 Credit from Article #6. . 289.57
$38,652.93
Expenditure . 36,766.02
Balance, December 31, 1960 . $ 1,886.91
(Carried forward to 1961)
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
Appleton Street, #327 - Install Catch Basin Inlet and Box
12
365.3
$ 214.46
*Baker Road . . . Brattle Place and through Private Lands to Hemlock Street
36
230.
12,807.11
Cemetery Street and Garden Street. Pump installation - started in 1959, completed in 1960
431.38
*Charlton Street Outlet .
10
121.
3
*** Charlton Street
*College Avenue
12
315.
** Country Club Drive
12
403.
Day Street, adjust grades in Brook for Storm Drain
12
222.5
15
52.
582.09
*Drake Road . .
12
127.
3
* Florence Avenue
18
14.9
128.61
12
99.8
1,734.29
*Hathaway Circle Homer Road and vicinity
16
582.
14,279.33
** Kipling Road . .
12
280.
** Lansdowne Road
12
528.
12
721.4
15
433.
105.
603.33
30
4.
519.97
566.89
270
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Massachusetts Avenue at Marion Road .
Mill Street, Install Baker Grate at Culvert . Mystic Street, Install Catch Basin and Box on easterly side of Mystic Street at Robin Hood Road . .
24
424.
)
*** Decatur Street . . . Dow Avenue, Connect brook into existing storm drain on Dow Avenue
15
213.
*Gordon Road .
36
72.
Grove Street Place, westerly
12
131.7
12
241.
12
122.
327.75
Gloucester Street, Construct Storm Drain Connection to Catch Basin
*** Longmeadow Road
8
STORM DRAINS
TABLE III (Continued)
STORM DRAINS
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
** Pawnee Drive .
12
290.
** Pheasant Avenue Pine Street at Pine Avenue, Raise Manhole - Private Lands at Pine Avenue and Pine Street ..
12
36.4
**** Ridge Street, Excavation for Storm Drain pipe from present manhole at College Avenue to side line of Ridge Street . . .
12
35.
965.69
*Ridge Street, from north of College Avenue to Yerxa Road Ridge Street, Construction of 2 manholes and relocate 24" storm drain
24
22.
640.38
*Sleepy Hollow Lane
12
115.
*Spy Pond Lane .
12
287.9
*Teresa Circle
8
88.
3
*Twin Circle Drive .
12
230.
*Upland Road West, at Ridge Street
12
77.
** Upland Road West, at Columbia Road in connection with Columbia Road Construction .
12
51.1
18
602.2
#General Expense
2,847.92
$36,766.02
*Installed by Developer.
** Installed by Town in connection with Street Construction.
*** Installed by Contractor in connection with Street Construction.
**** Installed by Town and Developer. #Stock, $1,256.87; Miscellaneous, $1,492.52; Holiday, $98.53.
CULVERT - DAY STREET
Appropriation $500.00
Expenditure
500.00*
December 31, 1960 .
*48 ft. - 12" pipe
271
0
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
*** Windmill Lane, Outlet for Longmeadow Road
12
329.
116.82
18
1,079.2
272
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
TABLE IV SANITATION DIVISION
Appropriation
$ 182,800.00
Credit from Article 6 & 11
6,504.92
$ 189,304.92
(Labor
Expenses
$140,504.92 48,800.00)
Expenditure (Including Accounts Payable)
188,152.96
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 1,151.96
Expenditure
Ashes, Paper and Rubbish
$ 132,529.01
Accounts Payable .
24.00
Dump Maintenance
39,445.51
Accounts Payable
168.00
Sick Leave .
4,353.92
Vacations and Holidays
11,632.52
$ 188,152.96*
*Labor
. $141,489.09
Expenses
46,663.87
SEWER EXTENSIONS
Appropriation . .
. $25,000.00
Balance brought forward 7,052.78
Credit from Article #6 . 347.49
$32,400.27
Expenditure . .
30,598.44
Balance, December 31, 1960 . $ 1,801.83 (Carried forward to 1961)
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
*Alpine Terrace
8
46.
W
*Baker Road . .
8
473.02
W
8
300.45
W
8
14.64
$ 278.09 W
8
150.6
1,171.26 W
** Charlton Street, Florence Avenue to Oakland Avenue
8
700.53
W
** Charlton Street Outlet to Hathaway Circle
8
239.9
** Charlton Street, from Florence Avenue northerly Churchill Avenue, completed Outlet Sewer. Started in 1959 .
8
900.63
2,732.99
**** College Avenue, from Ridge Street southerly, materials and installation Dow Avenue Pump Chamber
8
578.
2,498.23 W
*Drake Road . .
8
420.
W
*Garrison Road
8
198.7
W
*Gay Street
8
155.4
W
*Gordon Road
8
213.30
W
*Hancock Street
8
130.8
W
**** Hodge Road, furnish materials for installation of sewer main and manholes, from Upland Road West to Melvin Road - incomplete .
18.65 W
Homer Road, Keats Road and Private Lands - started in 1959
8
750.5
4,557.01 W
8
275.55
5
300.
8
36.
8
280.
8
176.9
Spy Pond Lane . .
Spy Pond Lane Outlet, from northerly end of Spy Pond Lane to Princeton Road at Alfred Road .
8
590.35
Stowecroft Road, from present end to existing manhole on Sorensen Court .
8
188.35
*Teresa Circle . .
8
145.15
W
*Twin Circle Drive
8
460.
W
·
·
Mystic Street, Install sewer pipe #325 Mystic Street to Outlet Sewer Main . *** Pheasant Avenue
2,166.74 W 823.54
*Sleepy Hollow Lane
WWW
5,826.59 1,647.24
273
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
TABLE V
*Brattle Drive Brattle Place, from present end southerly Carl Road, from present end at side line of Aerial Street in northerly direction - started in 1959 . .
8
131.
W 3
4,564.39
Lublin Street and Sylvia Street . .
TABLE V (Continued)
SEWER EXTENSIONS
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Net Cost
**** Upland Road West, from Ridge Street to Hodge Road Woodside Lane, from Brattle Street easterly
#General Expense
8
279.7
8
74.6
659.19 W 748.04 W 2,906.48
$30,598.44
*Installed by Developer.
** Installed by Contractor in connection with Street Construction *** Installed by Town in connection with Street Construction.
**** Installed by Town and Developer. #Stock, $441.02; Miscellaneous, $1,380.23; Holiday, $235.57; Tools & Equipment, $849.66. "W" Indicates water in same trench.
SANITARY SEWER CHURCHILL AVENUE
Balance brought forward . $1,038.96
Expenditure . . 1,038.96
December 31, 1960 . 0
274
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
275
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
TABLE VI SEWER MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Appropriation
$ 32,000.00
Credit from Article #6
752.90
Transfer from Finance Committee Reserve Fund
2,000.00
$ 34,752.90
(Labor $19,999.90 Expenses 14,753.00)
Expenditure (Including Accounts Payable) .
34,396.87
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 356.03
Expenditure
Resurfacing
$ 224.00
Care and Repair of Particular Sewers
2,897.39
Accounts Payable .
24.00
Care and Repair of Mains
19,740.92
Care and Repair of Sewer Pumps
9,388.47
Accounts Payable .
1.20
Tools and Equipment
1,489.17
Holidays .
631.72
$ 34,396.87*
*Labor
$22,906.69
Expenses
11,490.18
276
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
ARLINGTON WATER WORKS Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Population by census of 1960, 50,745.
Date of Construction Low Service System, 1872; High Service, 1894.
By whom owned, Town of Arlington.
Source of Supply - Metropolitan Water System.
Consumption
1. Estimated total population at date, 51,000.
2. Estimated population on lines of pipe, 51,000.
3. Estimated population supplied, 51,000.
4. Total consumption for the year, 1,858,567,000.
5. Percentage of consumption metered, 100%.
6. Average Daily Consumption 5,078,100.
7. Gallons Per Day Per Capita, 102.
Distribution
(Including Auxiliary Supply from Old Reservoir)
Mains
Six thousand, eight hundred sixty-seven (6,867) feet of new water mains were laid during the year and sixteen hundred and three (1603) feet of mains were re-laid during the year and connected with the Metropolitan System. Details of regular water main installation will be found in Table VIII.
1. Kind of pipe; cast-iron, cement and transite.
2. Sizes, from 4 inch to 16 inch.
3. Extended feet during year, 6,867.
4. Number of feet renewed during year, 1603.
5. Discontinued during year, 1603.
6. Total now in use, 121.61 miles.
7. Cost of repairs per mile, $176.11.
8. Length of pipe less than 4 inches in diameter, 0.
9. Number of hydrants added during year, 17.
10. Number of hydrants now in use, 1303.
11. Number of stop gates added during year, 26.
12. Number of stop gates now in use, 3049.
13. Average pressure on mains at center of Town, 110 high system, 80 low system.
Services
Two hundred and eleven new services have been added during the year and four abandoned. There are for all purposes, 4293 on the low, 7509 on the high and 5 on the old Reservoir system. On the Metropolitan water supply there are 87 for municipal purposes, 44 sprinkler services, and 50 for sewer flushing purposes included in the above. On January 1, 1961 there were 212 services temporarily out of use.
1. Kind of pipe: copper, cement-lined, black wrought iron and lead and 3" to 6" cast iron.
2. Sizes, 1 inch to 6 inch.
3. Number of service taps added during year, 211.
4. Number of services abandoned during year, 4.
5. Number of services now in use, 11,807.
6. Percentage of services metered, 100%.
Meters
Two hundred and eleven (211) meters were set during 1960 on services installed in 1959-1960. The total number of meters in use January 1, 1961 was 11,807.
277
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
TABLE VII WATER MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Appropriation 1960 Labor
Expenses
.$108,000.00 42,000.00 $ 150,000.00
Article #6
4,401.54
$ 154,401.54
Expenditures - 1960
Labor
. $103,081.67 42,067.59 $
145,149.26
Balance 12/31/60
$ 9,252.28
Accounts Payable
1,124.49
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENDITURES
Maintenance
Expenditures
Services - Care, Repair and Renewals
$ 55,649.18
Meters - Care, Repair and Reading .
27,697.26
Shop .
5,081.67
Tools & Equipment .
6,418.59
Hydrants & Gates - Care & Repair
8,208.60
Mains - Care & Repair
13,208.44
Calgon Chambers .
1,231.95
Reservoir & Great Meadows
870.40
Pitometer Box - Overlook Road
367.85
*General Expense
26,415.32
Total
$ 145,149.26
*Stock, $9,039.57; Holidays, $3,697.46; Sick Leave, $4,274.38; Vacations, $5,830.30; Miscellaneous, $3,573.61.
CAPITAL OUTLAY
Balance 1/1/60
$ 1,078.61
Appropriation 1960
16,961.00
$ 18,039.61
Expenditure
2,402.67
$ 15,636.94
EXTENSION OF SERVICES - HOUSE CONNECTIONS
Appropriation 1960
Labor
$ 4,550.00
Expenses
9,700.00
Article #6.
173.75
From Reserve Fund
5,000.00
Total $ 19,423.75
Expenditures 1960
*Bills
$ 9,360.68
Extension of Services
9,778.10
** General Expense
40.12
Balance 12/31/60
Total $ 19,178.90
244.85
Expenses
.
*Installation on Private Property-Reverts to Town Treasury Holidays
278
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
ARTICLE #38
Balance 1/1/60
$ 6,319.31
Appropriation 1960 Article #6
25,000.00
579.15
Total $ 31,898.46
Expenditure 1960
Labor
Expenses
$12,408.92 14,055.46 $
26,464.38
$ 5,434.08
IMPROVEMENT OF VOLUMES AND PRESSURES
Cleaning Mains
$ 12,684.93
Calgon Chambers
637.68
Pitometer Survey .
1,537.41
Brattle Drive
1,258.95
Gray Street . .
3,745.71
Broadway at Palmer St.
108.70
Eastern Ave. at Highland Ave.
180.98
Forest St. at Aerial St.
63.43
Park Ave. at Locke School .
105.05
Boulevard Rd.
2,545.70
Park Ave. at Prospect Ave. Pitometer Manholes
340.77
818.42
*General Expense
2,436.65
*Miscellaneous, $2,102.44; Holiday, $334.21
TABLE VIII
Balance Brought Forward ... $ 5,607.80
Appropriation 1960 . . 35,000.00
Article #6
463.32
$41,071.12
Expenditure . .
23,215.29
Balance-December 31, 1960 . $17,855.83 (carried forward to 1961)
EXTENSION OF HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
Description
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Hydrants Gates
Total Cost
1 Alpine Terrace - Huntington Rd. swly.
.S
8
72
1
Baker Road - Stowecroft Rd. nly. .
.S
8
604
2
1
$ 2,447.21
3 Brattle Drive & Pl .- old end to Brattle St Carl Road - Aerial St. nly. College Ave. - Ridge St. swly.
.S
6-8
547
1
2
608.65
.S
8
152
1,014.57
.S
8
577
2
6,048.37
4 Drake Road - Housing for elderly .
.S
6-8
458
2
1
.S
8
120
1,605.03
3 Hodge Road - Upland Rd. West nly. Homer Road - old end to Browning Rd. Lublin & Sylvia Sts. - Lublin St. & SW on Sylvia St.
.S
8
571
2
5,143.91
.S
8
305
1
1
2,248.62
1 Pheasant Ave. - Ronald Road ely. .
.S
8
17
5 Prospect Ave. - Hillside Ave. wly. Ridge St. - Hydrant installations .
.S
12
800.00
4 Sleepy Hollow Lane - Ridge St. sly.
.S
8
287
3 Teresa Circle - entire length . .
.S
8
779
1
2
2,664.57
4 Twin Circle Dr. - Sleepy Hollow Lane
.S
8
443
1
2
3
1,563.21
7 Upland Rd. West - Ridge St. to Hodge Rd. and at Columbia Rd Woodside Lane - Brattle St. ely.
.S
8
258
1
952.00
*General Expense
4,422.84 CR
Total High Service System
5,278
14
19
$21,705.98
EXTENSION OF LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
2 Boulevard Rd. - old end to Mass. Ave.
1 Decatur St. - Gardner St. ely.
8
110
4 Garrison Rd. - Spy Pond Lane sly.
.S
8
190
1
4 Gordon Rd. - No. Union St. ely.
.S
8
224
1
8
$
8.14
8
95
1
1
1,023.36
279
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
·
·
5 Heath Rd. - old end nely. .. Mass. Ave. - Magnolia St. sely.
8
186
3
4
1,032.68
·
.S
8
88
TABLE VIII (Continued)
Description
Size of Pipe in Inches
Length in Feet
Hydrants Gates
Total Cost
No. Union St. - at Gordon Rd.
.S
8
20
304.06
6 Pond Lane - Wellington St. to Boys' Club
8
324
1
3 Spy Pond Lane - Princeton Rd. wly.
.S
8
440
2
3
173.75
Total Low Service System
1,589
3
7
Total Extensions
6,867
17
26
$ 1,509.31 $23,215.29
RENEWALS - HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
1 Charlton St. - Oakland Ave. to Florence Ave.
.S
8
827
2
2
1 Columbia Rd. - Upland Rd. West nely. . .
8
279
1 Lansdowne Rd. - Hemlock St. to Millett St.
8
500
1
3
Total Renewals
1,606
3
5
*Miscellaneous - $1,207.39; Stock Credit - $5,806.86; Holidays - $176.63
1 Installed under Street Construction
2 By Article #38
3 Excavation and backfill by developer
4 By Developer
5 To complete 1959 work
6 By Article #29
7 1960 Streets - Town and Developer
S Indicates sewer in same trench
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
280
.
TABLE IX WATER MAINS NOW IN SERVICE
LOW SERVICE SYSTEM
HIGH SERVICE SYSTEM
RESERVOIR SYSTEM
Size
Cast Iron Pipe
Transite Pipe
Cast Iron Pipe
Transite Pipe
Cast Iron Pipe
Transite Pipe
Inches
Lgth. in Feet
Hyds.
Gates
Lgth. in Feet
Hyds.
Gates
Hyds.
Gates
Lgth. in Feet
Hyds.
Gates
Lgth. in Feet
Hyds.
Gates
Lgth. in Feet
Hyds.
Gates
16
2,388
12
7,339
41,290
7,919
1,796
10
16,497
2,737
23,554
2,190
270
8
41,374
37,154
108,634
85,787
2,156
6
102,258
860
144,844
2,558
4,175.
5,196
4
160
578
220
Totals
167,468
442
932
40,751
320,870
853
2,094
99,032
8,797
10
25
5,196
Total length of mains in service January 1, 1961 - 642,114 feet or 121.61 miles Total number of gates in service January 1, 1961 - 3,049 Total number of hydrants in service January 1, 1961 - 1,303
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
281
Lgth. in Feet
282
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
WATER DIVISION
Receipts for Water Consumed
Year
$ 200,029.08
1952
212,670.61
1953
223,759.82
1954
244,397.67
1955
305,112.53
1956
296,800.60
1957
327,058.39
1958
310,085.52
1959
310,928.47
1960
320,593.35
Percentage of receipts from metered water 95.2%
WATER RATES COMMITTED DURING 1960
January 1
$ 30,495.38
February 1
23,082.36
March 1 .
23,129.30
April 1.
28,698.62
May 1
22,253.58
June 1
23,840.45
July 1
32,721.31
August 1
27,833.49
September 1
31,038.06
October 1 .
41,536.32
November 1
25,972.81
December 1
26,955.48
Total
$ 337,557.16
VALUE OF WATER FURNISHED FREE TO TOWN DEPARTMENTS
School
$ 3,417.67
Selectmen
2,677.35
Cemetery
2,606.27
Library
262.30
Park
2,082.56
Public Works
2,064.50
Total . $ 13,110.65
1960 EXPENDITURES
Water Maintenance
$ 145,149.26
House Connections
19,178.90
Capital Outlay .
2,402.67
Water Extensions
23,215.29
*Metropolitan Assessment
139,149.68
Article #38
26,464.38
Total $ 355,560.18
*Payment in 1960 for consumption of 1,739,371,000 gallons in 1959 @ $80.00 per one million gallons.
1951
283
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
Payment in 1961 will be $148,685.36 for consumption of 1,858,567,000 gallons in 1960 @ $80.00 per one million gallons.
*1960 RECEIPTS
Rates .
$ 320,593.35
Liens added to Taxes
4,917.39
10,851.45
House Connections . Construction
1,431.79
Miscellaneous
634.50
Total $ 338,428.48
UNPAID DECEMBER 31, 1960
Rates .
$ 33,775.65
Liens added to Taxes
508.25
Total $ 34,283.90
*Includes rates committed in 1959.
284
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
TABLE X SIDEWALKS AND EDGESTONES
Appropriation
$ 20,000.00
Credit from Article 6
405.41
Balance brought forward
1,383.02
$ 21,788.43
Expenditure
20,956.36
Balance, December 31, 1960
832.07
ALTERATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, ETC. OF BUILDINGS IN NEW YARD (Article 27 - 1960)
Appropriation
$ 35,000.00
Expenditure 2,377.56
Balance, December 31, 1960 (Carried forward to 1961)
$ 32,622.44
REMOVAL OF BUILDING - ROBBINS FARM PLAYGROUND
(Article 80 - 1960)
Appropriation Expenditure
1,170.87
Balance, December 31, 1960
(Carried forward to 1961)
$ 1,229.13
HEADQUARTERS FOR ARLINGTON POST 1775 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS INC. OF THE UNITED STATES (Article 93 - 1960)
Appropriation
$ 1,000.00 0
Expenditure
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 1,000.00
REMOVAL OF THE OLD TOWN HALL (Article 25 - 1959)
Balance brought forward Expenditure
$ 7,500.00
Balance, December 31, 1960
$ 4,136.70
OFFSTREET PARKING AREA - RUSSELL COMMON
(Article 28 - 1959)
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