The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . toconsider the matter, made to the City Council in October, 1866. Thesemain channels compiised the following: Mill brook, from Grove streetto Green street, which it was calculated would drain 1,552 acres in thecity, and its water-shed north of Grove street was computed at 5,024acres; Lincoln brook, the natural outlet of the sewage in the westernpart of the city; Austin street brook; Hermitage brook, rising in thenorthern part of the city with a water-shed of 400 acres; Piedmontbrook and Pine Meadow brook. The walling of Mil
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . toconsider the matter, made to the City Council in October, 1866. Thesemain channels compiised the following: Mill brook, from Grove streetto Green street, which it was calculated would drain 1,552 acres in thecity, and its water-shed north of Grove street was computed at 5,024acres; Lincoln brook, the natural outlet of the sewage in the westernpart of the city; Austin street brook; Hermitage brook, rising in thenorthern part of the city with a water-shed of 400 acres; Piedmontbrook and Pine Meadow brook. The walling of Mill brook as the mainsewer was commenced at Green street May, 1867, and was substantiallycompleted to Lincoln .square in 1870—2,238 feet open and 3,369 The first sewers were laid in the streets in August, system of sewers has been extended from year to year. January i, * The above figures are brought down to the end of the year 1897. Construction hasbeen carried forward during the present 3ear in the usual proportion. 348 The Worcester of WACHUSETT CLUB HOUSE. 1898, there were miles of sanitary sewers and of surfacesewers, which have cost $3,689,, not including the outlay in 1898.*vSonie twenty years ago the pollution of the stream below Quinsiga-mond Village by the sewage of the city began to cause complaint inMillbury and other places on the Blackstone river, and after severalyears agitation of the subject, the Legislature in June, 1886, passed anact requiring the city of Worcester to purify its sewage within fouryears (by June, 1890), by some method not specified, before dischargingit beyond city limits. In 1888 the Joint Standing Committee of theCity Council recommended the construction of an outfall sewer, fromthe end of the present sewer at Quinsigamond Village to the landselected for the final treatment of the sewage before passing into thestream below. The purification works have attracted much attention,and undoubtedly muc
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