Word: basin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of all the crews on the river has been somewhat limited during the past week. Although the University boat has been out every day, except Monday, when there was a snow-storm, it has generally been only for short distances. Wednesday, however, the crew went down the basin, as far as Harvard bridge. If the weather is decidedly warmer today the University eight will be sent on a four-mile row, otherwise there will be no practice...
...Charles River Basin Commission awarded the contract for building the dam and lock in the Charles River to the Holbrook, Cabot, and Rollins Corporation. The basis of the award was $801,-507.50. In the work so far piles have been driven under the lock in the Boston cofferdam and under the sluices in the Cambridge cofferdam. A few piles also have been driven along the sea wall and in the canals to strengthen them in order that the dredging may be carried to a greater depth...
...result of the attempt to improve the basin, the Longwood bridge and the low railroad bridge beside it has been raised under authority of an act passed by the legislature of 1904. A new and wider bridge will also be built connecting Boylston street, Cambridge, with Harvard street, Allston, thus affording a better approach to Soldiers Field. The act authorizing this bridge was also passed by the legislature...
...allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting water out of the basin. There will also be outlets for marginal conduits, through which all sewage overflow, which now goes into the basin in times of heavy rain storms, will be carried down to tide water. At present about 1800 feet of the marginal conduits on the Boston side has been completed...
...will maintain a basin 8 miles long, and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin...