. Annual report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board . Table No. 3. — Showing Area of South Metropolitan District the Sewagefrom ivhich will require Pumping, with Estimated Population December31, 1904. City or Town. Area (SquareMiles). Population, December 31, 1904. Boston,Brookline,Milton, .Newton,Quincy,Waltbam,Watertown,Totals,. 170 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc. The High-level Sewer, Chapter 42 1 of the Acts of 1899 further authorized the construc-tion and operation of a main sewer and appurtenances, known as theHigh-level Sewer, for the disposal of sewage from this SouthMetropolita
. Annual report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board . Table No. 3. — Showing Area of South Metropolitan District the Sewagefrom ivhich will require Pumping, with Estimated Population December31, 1904. City or Town. Area (SquareMiles). Population, December 31, 1904. Boston,Brookline,Milton, .Newton,Quincy,Waltbam,Watertown,Totals,. 170 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc. The High-level Sewer, Chapter 42 1 of the Acts of 1899 further authorized the construc-tion and operation of a main sewer and appurtenances, known as theHigh-level Sewer, for the disposal of sewage from this SouthMetropolitan area by gravity. This trunk sewer has been underconstruction for the past four years, and has but recently been com-pleted and put into operation. It is designed to receive and carryby gravity the sewage from the (>4 square miles of high-level ter-ritory outlined in Fable No. 2. Sewage from the original CharlesRiver district [sal present lifted to it by pumps at a station on WardStreet in Koxbury. The sewage of parts of the city of Quincy willbe pumped to it at a station in Merrymount Park in that city. Asmall district of about 2 square miles, from which sewage mayeventually be raised to the High-level Sewer, includes portions ofDorchester and Milton, extending from Hyde Park to GraniteBridge. It is at present tributary to the
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