Word: dam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Blake will deliver a lecture on "The Charles River Dam and Some of its Problems," under the auspices of the Engineering Society in the Lecture Room of Pierce Hall at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Blake is a civil engineer, and has designed one of the plans which have been under consideration by the Dam Commission appointed by Governor Crane to present a report to the Legislature on the advisability of such a structure...
...Charles River Dam Commission has received the reports of all the experts and engineers who have been employed in the preliminary investigations for construction of the dam. The committee is now preparing the report which is to be finished if possible by January 14, the time specified by the legislature...
...report of the committee on the construction of the Charles River dam will be filed in January, and until that time nothing definite can be done about the matter...
...chief objections to the building of the dam has been the fear that sewage would accumulate in the basin. With a view to ascertaining the truth of this statement, chemical and bacteriological analyses of the water were made under various tidal conditions, especially in regard to the dissolution of sewage in still fresh water; and all the sewers opening into the basin and its tributaries were examined both in dry weather and in storm overflows. The temperature of the water has been systematically watched all summer...
This summer, the commission will make special efforts to examine the temperature of the basin, the currents and the tides and how much danger there is of causing malaria by constructing the proposed dam...