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Identifier: annualreportofbo1886boston (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Boston Water Board, for the year ending ..
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Water Board
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : s.n.)
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. This Corporation reserves the right to withdraw the above offers,unless one of them shall be accepted by the city wilhin thirty (30)days from this date. s Truly yours, (Signed), Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corporation, By MOSES WILLIAMS, Fresiclnt. (Copy.) Office of City Engineer, Boston, Feb. 20, 1886. Col. H. T. Rockwell, Chairman Boston Water Board: — Dear Sir,—The accompanying- plan shows the location andsize of the distribution pipes of the Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Co.in Roxbury, and also the sizes of the Cochituate pipes laid in thesame streets. The total length of the mains of the Jamaica Pond Co in Rox-bury is 47,300 feet, or about 9 miles. Of this amount 33,000feet are in streets which also contain the pipes of the Cochituateworks, leaving 14,300 feet in streets where there are no Cochituatemains. About 8,800 feet of the Jamaica Pond Co.s mains could prob-ably be connected with and made a portion of the Cochituate Plan showing th: Water Pipes OF TIE Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Company
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Appendix A. 121 distribution ; the remainder of the 14,300 feet being of smallersize or lighter weight than is used on the Cochituate works. The cost of the changes necessary in the distribution system toconnect all of the Jamaica Pond Co.s water-takers with theCochituate supply will be about $20,000. Yours respectfully,(Signed), WILLIAM JACKSON, City Engineer and Engineer Boston Water Board. (Extract from Report of Water Board, City Doc. 173, IS83.) The sum paid by the corporation to the City of Boston in 1857, for its franchises, was . . $32,000 00 The property was appraised by City EngineerJoseph P. Davis in December, 1874. (See CityDoc. 108, 1874) . . . . . . 88,000 00 Land appraised by Joseph P. Davis. (See City Doc. 108, 1874) 15,700 00 Amount expended in construction since 1874, new pipes, additional land, etc. .... G9,943 64 Total cost to date $205,043 64 Receipts. 1880, $12,063 50 1881, 14,068 04 1882, 14,655 12 1883, (8 mo.) 13,516 23 About RunningExpenses. $4,500 4,500 4,50

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