Annual report of the City Engineer . )lanks, of diflerentsizes, for use in the pipe-chamber and about the various gatesand wells, have been fitted, ironed, and painted or oiled, readyfor use. The salt-water conduit has been completed, and theportiou of sea-wall at its end is built. Further extcMisions ofthis wall and the wharf outside of it remain to be Ji Report of the City Engineer. 43 The channel connecting the city dock at this point with themain ship channel of Dorchester bay became somewhatshoaled with mud during the year, and was dredged, withoutcost to the city, down to t
Annual report of the City Engineer . )lanks, of diflerentsizes, for use in the pipe-chamber and about the various gatesand wells, have been fitted, ironed, and painted or oiled, readyfor use. The salt-water conduit has been completed, and theportiou of sea-wall at its end is built. Further extcMisions ofthis wall and the wharf outside of it remain to be Ji Report of the City Engineer. 43 The channel connecting the city dock at this point with themain ship channel of Dorchester bay became somewhatshoaled with mud during the year, and was dredged, withoutcost to the city, down to twelve feet below low water, by theOld Harbor Pier Co., under the provision of their contract,b}^ which the channel is to be maintained without chargeuntil the completion of the pier now ])uilding by them for thecity. About 12,000 yards of gravel tilling has been receivedfrom the Old Colony Railroad, and used in grading about thepumping-station grounds. A telephone-wire now connectsthe pumping-station with City Hall and several departmentyards in the city. Section One, Outfall Sewer. On this section, commonly called Old-Harbor Pier, ex-tending from the pumping-station to the tunnel, work has notprogressed as rapidly as could have been desired. The con-tractors have completed the sea-wall at the outer end of thepier by building 226 yards of cut-stone masonry an
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