A Short Description of the Boston Waterworks... Describes reservoirs, aqueducts, and pumping stations (both individually and as a system) in the Boston area; also includes cost and consumption statistics for 1894; tells how people can visit various places of interest on the water works; map shows watersheds of the Sudbury and Cochituate supplys ... |
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20 feet 36 inches acres Albany Railroad arch Ashland bank Bellevue Hill Boston & Albany bottom Bradlee basin brick Brookline reservoir built Charlestown Chestnut Hill reservoir Cochituate aqueduct conduit connected construction consumption core wall depth DESCRIPTION OF RESERVOIRS discharge distributing reservoir drainage earth embankment East Boston Echo bridge engine Farm pond feet deep feet high feet long feet span feet thick feet wide Fisher Hill reservoir flow foot force main Gallons per day gate-chamber gate-house gates grade gravel high water horizontal hydrants inches in diameter influent Reservoir inner slope laid in cement Lake Cochituate Lawrence basin low service mains leading masonry laid Meters Mystic lake Mystic river Natick overfall Parker Hill reservoir paving portion puddle pumping pumping-station reser Roxbury high service sluice-gates South Framingham Southborough square miles stone storage reservoir Sudbury and Cochituate Sudbury Aqueduct Sudbury river Total tunnel U.S. gallons valley voir water-shed water-works West Roxbury