Word: conduits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Work on the Charles River dam, which was begun March 1, 1905, has been continued without interruption during the summer. All the 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...
...width from 180 to 300 feet, and the portion in the rear of Beacon street will be 100 feet wide. It will be made of excavations from the basin, hold in place by concrete masoury, retaining walls, faced with ashlar masonry on piles. The continuation of the Boston marginal conduit will be built in this fill...