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27 From December 4-inch removed abated account Construction account amount Appleton Street Auburn Street Baldwin Street bills bonds Boston Boston Elevated Railway Broadway Brookline Buena Vista Park Cambridge Street Cambridge Water Board cent CHESTER W City Council City of Cambridge Coffin condition consumption of water corner cost December decrease drinking fountains EDMUND H ending November 30 engine expense feet of 6-inch Fitchburg Railroad flash-board Fresh Pond gallons gallons per day Garden Street Harvard Street Hobbs Brook basin Hobbs Brook Reservoir hundred Huron Avenue hydrants Inch Inch Inch increase iron pipe June leaks Linnaean Street locations main pipe Maintenance account Construction Massachusetts Avenue million gallons pipe line place of 4-inch Pleasant Street Portland Street Pumping Station Quantity of water rainfall renewed Seals Maintenance account Sept Sinking Fund Sparks Street Stony Brook Reservoir Supplies and repairs Total number unpaid November 30 WALTER H Water Debt WATER REGISTRAR
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Page 44 - Blake. 2. Description of fuel used — a. Kind — bituminous. b. Brand of coal — Cumberland.
Page 75 - The second coat should be composed of one part Portland cement, two and onehalf parts of sand and with not over 5 per cent, lime putty.
Page 8 - The Water Board last year called attention to the great increase from year to year in the consumption of water in the district, and its successor has begun extended investigations relative to the excessive use and waste of water. This increase not only necessitates a great increase in current expenses, but it hastens the time when still greater expenditures must be incurred...
Page 3 - ... for the purpose of preventing the pollution, and securing the sanitary protection of the same.
Page 8 - WATER REGISTRAR WATER REGISTRAR'S OFFICE, CAMBRIDGE, December 5, 1901. To the Cambridge Water Board: — GENTLEMEN: — In compliance with the requirements of the City Ordinance I present the thirty-seventh annual report of the operations of this department showing the receipts, expenditures and abatements, together with a statement of the number of water takers, etc., for the year ending November 30, 1901.
Page 34 - Gallons per day to each tap, 637 11. Cost of supplying water, per million gallons, figured on total maintenance item (CC), $ 12.
Page 50 - Net cost of works to date Bonded debt at date Value of Sinking Fund at date Average rate of interest...
Page 44 - Ibs. 4. (Pounds of wood consumed) + 3 = equivalent amount of coal, 500 Ibs. 5. Total equivalent coal consumed for the year for pumping purposes, 4,316,755 Ibs.
Page 50 - Ibs. 4. (Pounds of wood consumed) -f- 3 = equivalent amount of coal, 500 Ibs. 5. Total equivalent coal consumed for the year = (3¿') -|- (4) 3,601,540 Ibs.
Page 36 - STATISTICS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. Mains. Kind of Pipe, cast iron. Sizes, from 2-inch to 48-inch.