Boston illustrated; . Gate House, Chestnut Hil double reservoir, being dividedby a water-tight dam into twobasins of irregular shape. Thesurface of water in both is aboutone hundred and twenty-five acres,and when filled to their fullestcapacity the two basins will holdnearly eight hundred million gal-lons. As we have said, this ad-dition to the works has beenfound inadequate, and in 1872 au-thority was obtamed for the cityto take water from the SudburyRiver. A temporary supply was land were made, and thework begun. More than twohundred acres of land, cost-ing about $120,000, weredeeded to the
Boston illustrated; . Gate House, Chestnut Hil double reservoir, being dividedby a water-tight dam into twobasins of irregular shape. Thesurface of water in both is aboutone hundred and twenty-five acres,and when filled to their fullestcapacity the two basins will holdnearly eight hundred million gal-lons. As we have said, this ad-dition to the works has beenfound inadequate, and in 1872 au-thority was obtamed for the cityto take water from the SudburyRiver. A temporary supply was land were made, and thework begun. More than twohundred acres of land, cost-ing about $120,000, weredeeded to the city before thereservoir was finished. Likethe Brookline Reservoir, it(onstituted a natural is five miles from the Bos-ton City Hall, and one milefrom the Brooklme lies wholly in the Brigh-ton District near ChestnutHill, from which it derivesits name. It is, in fact, a
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