First-Nineteenth annual report of the Metropolitan water and sewerage board ..1901-1919 . hem in condition for travel while thework is in progress, and many repairs have been necessary; someof these have -been made by the contractors and some by the day-labor forces of the Board. The maximum day-labor force employed in connection with thework upon the roads was 30 men and 10 horses, for the week end-ing May 25, 1901. Considerable work has been done by the engineers in makingplans for the location and construction of new roads toward theupper end of the reservoir and for the discontinuance of r
First-Nineteenth annual report of the Metropolitan water and sewerage board ..1901-1919 . hem in condition for travel while thework is in progress, and many repairs have been necessary; someof these have -been made by the contractors and some by the day-labor forces of the Board. The maximum day-labor force employed in connection with thework upon the roads was 30 men and 10 horses, for the week end-ing May 25, 1901. Considerable work has been done by the engineers in makingplans for the location and construction of new roads toward theupper end of the reservoir and for the discontinuance of roads inother portions of the reservoir. Re3ioval of Soil. Work upon the removal of soil from the reservoir has been inprogress by the contractors already mentioned under the headingNorth Dike. A large contract for removing the soil required for completingthe westerly portion of the dike has been made. This will bedescribed more fully under the head of contracts. The total amount of soil removed and to be removed from theWachusett Reservoir is at present estimated to be about 6,900,000. No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 75 cubic yards, from approximately 4,200 acres. Of this, the totalamount removed from the reservoir in previous years was 2,278,723cubic yards, from 1,358 acres; in 1901, 1,309,925 cubic yards wereremoved, from 758 acres; making a total from the beginning ofwork to the end of 1901 of 3,588,648 cubic yards, or 52 per cent,of the total, as at present estimated, removed from 2,116 acres. Ofthe soil remaining, the removal of more than one-half is providedfor under existing contracts. Of the soil removed to the end of the year 1901, 167,389 cubicyards were used for road embankments, 2,420 cubic yards forshallow-flowage areas, and 3,418,839 cubic yards have been used inthe dike. There have been 40,885 cubic yards of earth used tocover deep muck to the depth of about 1 foot; this amount, addedto the 9,008 cubic yards used for the same purpose during the pre-vious year, gives
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