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Mystic Water Works
| Name | Mystic Water Works |
| Ortssitz | Somerville (Mass.) |
| Straße | Alewife Brook Parkway |
| Art des Unternehmens | Wasserwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Alewife Brook Parkway und Capen Street. Erbaut für die Stadt Charlestown, seit 1874 zu Boston und Teil der "Metropolitan District Commission" (MDC). Von den Maschinen ist nur die nach Spot Pond umgesetzte Leavitt-Maschine nachweisbar. Seit 1912 außer Betrieb. Die zwischenzeitlich als Büros und Werkstätten genutzte Anlage (im Eigentum der Stadt Somerville) soll 2016 in Seniorenwohnungen umgebaut werden. Siehe auch "Somerville Waterworks". |
| Quellenangaben | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Water_Works |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1862 |
Baubeginn |
| 1865 |
Fertigstellung |
| 1870 |
Vergrößerung um zwei Hallenschiffe nach Osten |
| 1874 |
Übernahme durch die Wasserwerke von Boston |
| 1895 |
Vergrößerung um fünf Hallenschiffe nach Westen |
| 1912 |
Stillegung |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Trinkwasser |
1865 |
Beginn |
1912 |
Ende |
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Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | um 1905 |
| THEMA | Reservoir |
| TEXT | This reservoir is situated near Tufts College in the city of Medford, and was built in 1863 by the City of Charlestown in connection with works for supplying water from Mystic Lake. It was taken from the city of Boston and became a part of the Metropolitan Water Works on January 1, 1898. and is used as a low-service reservoir, being 6 feet lower than Spot Pond. It is about 550 feet long by 350 feet wide at the level of the granite coping which surrounds the reservoir on the top of the embankment. The embankments are of earth. 19 feet 4 inches wide at the top, with i}4 to 1 slopes. The reservoir is lined with clay puddle 24 inches in thickness, covered on the bottom with Rosendale cement concrete 3 inches in thickness, and on the slopes with a paving of brick 8 inches thick laid in cement mortar. The reservoir is divided into two basins by an embankment, the top of which is 5 feet below high water mark. The depth of water in the reservoir when full is 22 feet. A gate-chamber at the south-east corner of the reservoir contains gates for controlling the flow of water to and from the reservoir, and there is also a chamber in the embankment on the easterly side of the reservoir through which water was pumped into the reservoir when it was used in connection with the supply from Mystic Lake. |
| QUELLE | [Brackett: Metropolitan Water Works (1905) 48] |
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