Annual Report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...as the larger quantity required in case of fire. The cost of this work was $4,604.43. Pumping Engine For The Southern High Service. On September 21 a contract was made with the Holly Manufacturing Company of Buffalo, N. Y., for the construction and erection, at the low-service pumping station at Chestnut Hill, of a triple expansion, crank and fly-wheel pumping engine, having a capacity of 40,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours, for the sum of $99,769. The making of detailed drawings of the engine has been in progress for several months and construction work has been recently commenced. The contract calls for the completion of the work before March 12, 1911. Miscellaneous. At the Wachusett Dam inscriptions have been cut in the granite gate posts at the Boylston Street entrance, and two bronze tablets have been placed on the exterior face of the lower gate-chamber briefly setting forth historical facts relative to the Metropolitan Water Works, particularly the Wachusett Reservoir. The cutting of the inscriptions cost $228.80, and the two tablets cost $425. A tile floor has been laid in the exciter room at the lower gatehouse at the Wachusett Dam, at a cost of $203.37. The maintenance force has unloaded from cars about 9,840 tons of pipes as received from the foundries, and loaded 7,310 tons on teams of contractors who have laid the pipes. On account of lack of storage room at the Chestnut Hill pipe yard, and in order to shorten the length of haul, arrangements have been made with the Boston & Albany Railroad for the use of land near the Woodland Station, in Newton, for use in storing 60-inch pipes, and since November 24 the pipes have been received and stored at that point. About 350 tons of pipe which are to be laid to reinforce the...