Word: levelled
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...feet long, with a drawbridge and sluices. On top of the dam a roadway will be constructed to replace the Craigie bridge, and a parkway of seven acres will be laid out. The dam will turn the estuary of the Charles river into a fresh water basin, maintaining a level two feet lower than mean high water...
...feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water, about the present level of the street at the Cambridge end of Craigie bridge. On the lower side of the dam there will be a roadway 85 feet wide, and on the upper side a park or embankment of 6 3-4 acres. There will also be an esplanade constructed by the City of Boston...
...will maintain a basin 8 miles long and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level...
...benefits of the basin will be realized much sooner than was anticipated by the petitioners who secured the legislative act authorizing the work. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin at about the same level as the permanent structure. The terms of the contract call for the completion of this shut-off dam by August 1, 1907. Rowing men of the present Freshman class, therefore, will be able to enjoy, for a year at least, the advantages of the greater depth...
...expected to have the walls completed past the level of the second story before winter. J. W. Bishop & Co., of Boston, the contractors. do not. however. expect the building will be entirely finished until next August or September...