Word: dams
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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...
...previously announced, the dam is being built on the site of the Craigie 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...
This embankment, with the land already purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge, will form a continuous park system along the 17 1-2 miles of shore-line from Charlesbank Park to the dam at Watertown...
Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, Mr. H. A. Miller, chief engineer of the Charles River Basin Commission, will deliver an illustrated lecture this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Peirce 110 on "The General Features of the Charles River Basin, and the Construction Work accomplished on the Dam...
...HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "General Features of the Charles River Basin and the Construction Work already accomplished on the Dam." (Illustrated.) Mr. H. A. Miller, Chief Engineer of the Charles River Basin Commission. Pierce...