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Title: First-Nineteenth annual report of the Metropolitan water and sewerage board ... 1901-1919
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board Sprague, Henry Harrison Walcott, Henry Pickering, b. 1838
Subjects: Water-supply Sewerage
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter printing co., state printers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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alls, lined withbrickwork in cement. Where the work is under any considerablehead of ground water, two rings of brickwork, aggregating 8 inchesin thickness, are used in the invert and side walls. In dry grounda single ring of brickwork is used. The inner ring is in all casesbuilt in Portland cement mortar. The brick arch is usually 12 inchesthick, and is generally built in Rosendale natural cement mortar.In the 6 feet 6 inches by 7 feet sewer above the bell-mouth structureat Perkins Street (sections 74 and 75) the brickwork of the arch is8 inches thick. In favorable o-round Rosendale cement is used forconcrete for the outer brickwork ring of the invert and for the arch;but Portland cement is substituted, both for brickwork and concrete,to meet such conditions as the presence of water in the bottom orsides of the trench, for construction in embankment, etc. The following brief description refers only to sections wholly orpartly constructed, or upon which liabilities have been incurred.
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No. 57.) AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 181 Section 43, Quincy and Hull.This comprises the 60-inch cast-iron outfalls extending from nearthe shore of Nut Island to points 1 mile beyond low-water line.The pipes will be laid in a trench dredged in the bed of the harbor.Two lines, respectively 5,555 and 5,833 feet long, are contemplatedat present. A contract has been entered into with the UnitedStates Cast-iron Pipe and Foundry Company for 2,920 tons of60-inch straight pipe and 70 tons of 60-inch specials required for thelonger line. These are to be delivered on Barkers Wharf, QuincyPoint, between April 1 and November 1, 1902, so as to be availablefor placing in the harbor during the coming season. Section 47, Quincy. Division Engineer- in Charge. — Francis L. Sellew.Contractor. — Charles G. Belden & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. The sewer is 11 feet 3 inches by 12 feet 6 inches in diameter and3,162 feet in length. It extends from Prospect Avenue, throughprivate land, Ratchford and Sea streets to th

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