Word: dam
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...Friday the joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, Will give a hearing on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. In connection with the building of this dam a committee composed of sixteen prominent citizens of Boston, Cambridge, Newton and Watertown has asked the legislature to provide for the appointment of a special commission to work out the details and report to the next General Court the probable cost of a project which, if in can be carried...
...seems desirable at this time to publish an authentic statement of just what this project consists. Its main feature, namely, to erect dam in the Charles River in the vicinity of Craigie Bridge is not new. In 1894, in a report made by a joint board consisting of the Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection...
...recommendation of the House Committee on Rules, the lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature voted on Friday to suspend the rules and to admit the petition of Major H. L. Higginson '55, and others, regarding the construction of the proposed Charles River Dam. Definite action on the bill will be taken by the House probably today. It will then be referred to the Committee on Rules of the Senate, and if the committee reports favorably, will be brought before that body for final action...
...petition as it now stands prays for the appointment of a commission to consider the construction of the dam, the original bill having been withdrawn. In this form it is not expected to meet with any serious opposition. The project was considered by two commissions previously,--Health Commissioners who reported in favor of the dam, and the River and Harbor Commissioners who reported against it, chiefly on the ground that the change would interfere with the tidal scour. Since the reclaiming of so much marsh land beside the river, the consideration of tidal scour has become unimportant, and should...
...dam is constructed, it will not be a fixed structure, as was originally intended. The present plan contemplates a dam in conjunction with a new bridge, with separate sections between every two adjacent piers, and so arranged that any section may be opened to permit the tide to enter. This would result in a basin of salt water, instead of fresh water, as would have been the case under the former plan. By opening the dam at intervals the water of the basin could be renewed, and any possible unhealthful effects of stagnation would thus be obviated...