Town of Arlington annual report 1960, Part 26

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Publication date: 1960
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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


ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT


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


ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT


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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