Wentworth Institute of Technology - Tekton Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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mana mf:-Lwgcian nam THE TEKTON depth of 56 feet, was cut at the end of the viaduct. The Wacliiisett dam was built across the Nashua River in the town of Clinton, Mass. The main dam was constructed of granite rubble masonry, quarried in Boylf ston, faced with granite ashlar, quarried in Chelmsford. Excavation for the dam began in 1900, the dam was completed in 1906. The dam was 944 feet long, and 25 feet thick at the high water level. The maxi' mum height of the dam is 207 feet, and the maximum thickness of the base, below the ground surface, is 185 feet. The top of the dam is 114 feet above the finished ground level. In the construction of the dam 280,000 cubic yards of masonry were used. Cn the north and southeast shores of the reservoir the land was lower than the high water level, so the engineers erected dikes to keep the water from flooding the low lands. The area of watershed of this project is 118.19 square miles. When the reservoir is at high water level, it has a capacity of 64,f 968,000,000 gallons of water. There are 7.71 square miles of marginal land around the reservoir, planted along the lines of modern forestry. The water from this reservoir is used to generate electricity, and it was the domesf tic water supply to be used for this purf pose. The dam completed cost 59,892,000 and was at that time the largest project of its kind. At the base of the dam there is a power plant, and approximately 9,000,000 gallons of water pass through the wheels of the turbines during their elevenfhour working day. A visit to these works would well repay one for the time expended. The power plant is always open for inspection, and is of especial interest to the mechanically inclined. -By CLEM, ...Wi 9 HUNTINGTON AVENUE Huntington Avenue, Boston, extends from Copley Square to the Brookline line, and received that name about 1864. It was laid out from Copley Square to Camden, now Cainsboro Street, November 1, 1875 g extended from Camden Street to Parker Street, May 24, 1881, from Parker Street to Tremont Street, December 29, 1882: and from Francis Street to the Brookline line, formerly a part of Tremont Street, was included january 5, 1895. The wife and daughter of Lieutenant Berry were halted by a sentry on duty, who had orders to allow no one to enter by that gate. Sorry, but you will have to go around to the main gate. Oh, but we're the Berrysf' Lady, 1 don't care if you're the cat's meow! You can't go through this gate. - -ul-1N'I'wim'l'lI - - AMONG YE GREEKS If a Theta lvlecta Beta With a Gramma Phi If a Theta Grecta Beta Nceda Kappa Psi? Every Theta Hasa mata None they say have I. But all thc boys They smile at me. ' 'Cause I'm a Hunka Pi. 'Tm very careful, I always send my children out of the house before I quarrel with my husband. L'The little dears, they look so healthy from spending their time in the open air. wl-.N'l'wu1l'rH - - THE SCOTCH OF IT How is it that you never let your mother know you'd won the V. C.? lt wasna mae turn tae write.

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f-'MSI --as ucF.w'-,9Xgz.fmn- f f H f.i1w'a THE TEKTON THE VJACHUSETT DAM AND I RESERVOIR In the year 1892, Boston found that its sources of water supply were not adequate to meet the demands. The other municif palities located in the district known as the Metropolitan District also felt the need of greater water resources. Accordingly, they decided to place the matter in the hands of the State. ' .,..4nr..l In 1893 a hill was introduced into the legislature, directing the State Board of Health to investigate the matter and make a report of existing conditions not later than January, 1895. The Board of Health immediately took up the matter, and after careful consideration of the possible sources of supply, which included Lake Winnipesaukee, N. H., the Merrimac River, and the south branch of the Nashua River, recommended the taking of the waters of the south branch of the Nashua River. The water was to be taken from a point just above the Lancaster Mills in Clinton, Massachusetts. An act, namely the Metropolitan Water Act, approved June 5, 1895, provided that the Governor appoint three water commisf sioners, to be called the Metropolitan Water Board, and that this board should construct a Water Works system as recomf mended by the Board of Health. To helcv meet the expenses of this project, bonds were to be issued to an amount not exceedf ing 327,000,000 This act made provision not only for the payment for land and property taken, but also for the payment for loss of water power and indirect dam- age to property not taken by the board. The reservoir itself extends in a southf westerly direction from the dam at Clinton and lies in the towns of Boylston, West Boylston, Sterling, and Clinton. It has a water area of 6.46 square miles. The length is 8.41 miles, its maximum width is 2.05 miles, the maximum depth is 129 feet, and the average depth' is 46 feet. The total length of shore line is 37 miles. In constructing the reservoir, soil was stripped from 3943 acres of submerged area to the average depth of one foot, or the total quantity of soil removed was approximately 6,900,000 cubic yards. To accomplish this the contractor laid 27 miles of 3ffoot narrow gauge railway track and used 35 eight to sixteenfton locomotives, and 735 gondola cars having from 1.75 to 3.5 cubic yards capacity. The construction of this reservoir ref quired the removal of six large mills, four churches, about 360 dwelling houses occuf pied by 1700 people, and the transferring of 3000 bodies from a large Catholic cemef tery. Approximately 19.25 miles of road were discontinued and 11.8 miles of new road were built to replace those disconf tinued. The Massachusetts Central Rail' way, which ran for 6.5 miles through the reservoir, was relocated. In relocating the tracks, 4.5 miles of new rail were laid and a huge viaduct 917 feet long, having a maxi' mum height of 133 feet, was built across the valley of the river in front of the dam. A rock tunnel 1110 feet long, and a rock cut 1500 feet long, having a maximum --mf 8 ya-

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G'1iGJl n in .uQx:2'b THE TEKTQN .se as .if YYVY' ' ' 4:55 , - S 0 . me v A 2 'A 4? The Alumni Editors are still looking for material to print under this heading. To date they have received a very small amount, as you may readily see when you read this page. However, it is never too late to send in your news items, technical articles or the like, as whatever you may send in can be used in one of the succeeding issues, and thus help to make THE TEKTON more inf teresting to the Alumni as they read it. Do not lose sight of the fact that if THE TEKTON is to be the oiiicial bulletin of the Alumni Association, its members must get behind their Editors and feed the ammunif tion to them in order that the results ob' tained on their target, The Alumni Notes, shall register 10024, efficiency. To date the Sustaining Membership of the Association amounts to about 500, which is far below the 1923f24 record. The Alumni Secretary reports that in or' der to keep abreast with the membership of previous years the total membership should be at least 600. There is still six months to go over the top. Let's go! Each one get at least one new member bc' tween now and December 31. There will be at least four issues this year for your membership dues amounting to 51.50 per year. How would you like An Alumni Issue next fall? This can be made pos' sible only through the hearty support and cofoperation of all members of the Alumni Association, especially the Sustaining Menibership. The Alumni Secretary, G. A. Pierce, '13, has received a few very interesting letf ters from the Alumni located in various parts of the country, and below he gives some statements taken from these letters which show how much TIAIE TEKTON means to these writers. E. C. '20 grad, living in Walpole, Mass., writes I assure you that l iind THE TEKTON alone worth the price due to its articles on technical subjects. An E. C. '22 man, located in Brooklyn, N. Y., says: -and I shall welcome the first issue of this year's TEKTON. THE TEKTON supplies the only means of keeping in touch with the activities of the Institute. Also, another E. C. grad in Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: Hoping that the paper proves as interesting as it has been in the past, -I remain. An S. E3 E. P. P. '20 man writes from Port Arthur, Texas, that through THL TEKTON is the only way he can keep in touch with Weiitworth doings, and re' news his Sustaining Membership at once. 10 :l'P41'4-