Word: basins
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...concrete work is practically finished, and the sluices and small boat lock on the Cambridge side will be completed before the cold weather. The Boston marginal conduit, through which all overflow from the sewers on stormy days will be carried down to tide-water instead of into the basin, is as near completion as the rest of the work will permit. In the Broad and Lechmere canals and in the basin, about ninety per cent. of the piles to support the wharves and walls have been driven, and dredging in the basin, just outside the entrance to the Broad canal...
...bridge and its length will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 340 to 490 feet. It will consist of two granite retaining walls backed by concrete, the space between the supporting piles being filled in with earth. No concrete will be visible from either the harbor or the basin side. The height of the dam will be 21 feet above the mean low water level and 13 feet above the full basin level, which is approximately two feet below high tide. Owing to additional plans for dredging in the small canals, the contract, which calls for the completion...
...catching the water quick enough. Yesterday, the two crews rowed upstream almost to the Brighton bridge and back to the University Boat House in easy stretches. Toward the latter part of next week, there will be a race between the two crews over the course in the basin...
...boathouse for three days. In these races the crews will start in the order in which they finished last year. Afterwards three graded crews each from the Newell and Weld boat clubs will be formed and will practice for about ten days before they race in the Charles River basin. For these six graded crews only those men will be eligible who rowed with their dormitory eights. The winners will be awarded their club insignia...
This new scheme of having the crew row only in the Basin was put into effect last week. The purpose is to have all eight men row together as much as possible, and to overcome the trouble of going around the bends in the river...