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Daniel W. Lawrence (search for this): chapter 10
for the amount expended, together with interest, less any amount the incorporators derived therefrom with interest. This was an act of pure public spirit. At this September meeting Medford voted to take water from Spot Pond, and elected Daniel W. Lawrence, Daniel A. Gleason and Benjamin F. Hayes a Board of Water Commissioners. Mr. Lawrence declined to serve, and Daniel W. Wilcox was chosen. It was also voted that the board contract for the construction of the works. At the next town meeMr. Lawrence declined to serve, and Daniel W. Wilcox was chosen. It was also voted that the board contract for the construction of the works. At the next town meeting, November 2, 1869, the opposition voted that the selectmen be instructed to petition the next Legislature for an act enabling Medford to take water from Mystic Lower Pond. I need not mention for those who remember how the tide rushed in to Mystic Pond twice each day, that this vote simply indicated that there was still some opposition to be met. The vote evidently was pigeon-holed, for the new board did not wait for the development of Mystic Lower Pond, but immediately proceeded to cons
James O. Curtis (search for this): chapter 10
pond was considered too small for the rapidly growing city, and fortunately for Medford (and Boston as well) was not taken. Mystic Pond was taken by Charlestown, and that city finding its supply abundant, supplied other cities and towns. James O. Curtis and others caused to be inserted in the warrant for a town meeting, November 6, 1866, an article, reading, to see if the town will instruct the selectmen to petition the Legislature for authority to procure a town water supply from the Charlo take from Spot Pond, and that Melrose probably would later. In the meantime the following prominent men, Samuel E. Sewall, Daniel W. Gooch and George W. Heath of Melrose, Elisha S. Converse, J. H. Abbott and George P. Cox of Malden, and James O. Curtis, Charles V. Bemis and Benjamin F. Hayes of Medford, had secured an act of the Legislature of 1867, incorporating them as the Spot Pond Water Company. The end in view was, to quote Judge Hayes, saving the pond for the use of the towns, if wi
Daniel Treadwell (search for this): chapter 10
ome cases a cistern also, to hold the rain-water gathered from the roofs. These methods of securing water, with pumps conveniently located inside the house, as most of them were in Medford, indicated an advance over former methods. As early as 1866 some of the citizens began to realize their opportunities for obtaining a better supply, with Mystic Pond on our west boundary and Spot Pond on our north, and to agitate the subject. Spot Pond had been recommended for Boston's use by Daniel Treadwell, November 4, 1825; again by Loammi Baldwin, C. E., in 1834; and again by R. H. Eddy, C. E., June 13, 1836, in an exhaustive report and plan. The water was said to be of excellent quality in each of the reports, but the pond was considered too small for the rapidly growing city, and fortunately for Medford (and Boston as well) was not taken. Mystic Pond was taken by Charlestown, and that city finding its supply abundant, supplied other cities and towns. James O. Curtis and others ca
Samuel E. Sewall (search for this): chapter 10
ater from the Charlestown works. A town meeting was called September 20, 1869, to hear the very able and exhaustive report which was read by the chairman of the committee, Eleazar Boynton, Jr. Although the committee was instructed to investigate the Charlestown water scheme, the report was strongly in favor of taking the Spot Pond water, stating that Malden had already voted to take from Spot Pond, and that Melrose probably would later. In the meantime the following prominent men, Samuel E. Sewall, Daniel W. Gooch and George W. Heath of Melrose, Elisha S. Converse, J. H. Abbott and George P. Cox of Malden, and James O. Curtis, Charles V. Bemis and Benjamin F. Hayes of Medford, had secured an act of the Legislature of 1867, incorporating them as the Spot Pond Water Company. The end in view was, to quote Judge Hayes, saving the pond for the use of the towns, if within any reasonable time they should desire, as municipalities, to utilize its waters. By this act the right was reser
Daniel W. Wilcox (search for this): chapter 10
wrence, Daniel A. Gleason and Benjamin F. Hayes a Board of Water Commissioners. Mr. Lawrence declined to serve, and Daniel W. Wilcox was chosen. It was also voted that the board contract for the construction of the works. At the next town meetin the special engineers was read and debated at length. Still unsettled, the town met again February i. At this meeting Mr. Wilcox offered an amendment, to the effect that water be taken from the Charlestown works. The meeting adjourned to February 9, when the town voted against Mr. Wilcox's amendment and in favor of the separate main; then again voted authority to the board to contract for the works, and provided means of payment. It is needless to say that civic interest and excitement ranme of the decision to have an independent main resulted in a break in the personnel of the board, by the resignation of Mr. Wilcox on April 4, 1870. A large main was laid from the south shore of the pond through Forest street to Medford Square, w
Samuel Tufts (search for this): chapter 10
he Governor and council were petitioned for viewers to examine the pond, which petition was granted, resulting in an agreement as to what was to be considered high-water mark. There was said to have been a hole drilled in the ledge to show it. Again, about 1800, complaint was made of flowage of meadows. Suit was brought for damages, resulting (see Sullivan's land titles) in a decision of Supreme Court, October, 1800, establishing rights to flow the land in question by the defendant, Samuel Tufts, as follows: he has had, and now has, prescriptive right to keep up the dam, in the same situation and height, as in his plea he has declared. There are many other suits on record, too numerous to mention. Spot Pond was discovered by Governor Winthrop, as he records in his journal, February 7, 1631, The Governor, Mr. Nowell, Mr. Eliot, and others, went over the Mystic river at Medford, and going north and by east among the rocks about two or three miles, they came to a very great po
Charles V. Bemis (search for this): chapter 10
hairman of the committee, Eleazar Boynton, Jr. Although the committee was instructed to investigate the Charlestown water scheme, the report was strongly in favor of taking the Spot Pond water, stating that Malden had already voted to take from Spot Pond, and that Melrose probably would later. In the meantime the following prominent men, Samuel E. Sewall, Daniel W. Gooch and George W. Heath of Melrose, Elisha S. Converse, J. H. Abbott and George P. Cox of Malden, and James O. Curtis, Charles V. Bemis and Benjamin F. Hayes of Medford, had secured an act of the Legislature of 1867, incorporating them as the Spot Pond Water Company. The end in view was, to quote Judge Hayes, saving the pond for the use of the towns, if within any reasonable time they should desire, as municipalities, to utilize its waters. By this act the right was reserved to the three towns to purchase the franchise and corporate property, by paying therefor the amount expended, together with interest, less any amo
Thomas B. Dill (search for this): chapter 10
lars for the previous twelve or fifteen years for the water works, and with no definite plans in sight to secure a larger supply and larger pipes to carry it, the outlook was not brilliant. On January 27, 1893, the commissioners decided to lay cast-iron pipe in all new work, and to use larger sizes. A plan to secure more water by a system of driven wells north of Webster street was discussed. Because of a disagreement as to its expediency the board was again disrupted, the chairman, Thomas B. Dill, resigning. Again time proved the wisdom of the majority, for experiments made proved the folly of spending the amount that would have been needed to develop the wells. It was found later that a large quantity of water could be obtained from Wright's Pond and vicinity at a much less original cost and maintenance expense. Wright's Pond, located just south of the Spot Pond water-shed, is an artificial pond, first developed for an ice pond. It was in the design of R. H. Eddy, C. E., i
Wright (search for this): chapter 10
entioned, to develop this as a reservoir. Medford developed it by raising the dam, so that the pond lay 140.66 feet above Medford's base, covering about 25 acres, and making a reservoir of about 80,000,000 gallons above a level 11 feet over the intake pipe. There are two branches called the east and the west arm, beside the branch that was dammed, which together constitute the head waters of Gravelly Creek. These two arms were also developed so that water might be pumped back, into either Wright's or Spot Pond during the months of excessive flow, for storage there until the dry season. A pumping station, built in 1895, between the branches of the brook, in connection with a steel standpipe erected the same year on a hill on the same property, gave the city a high service system with a pressure at the water office of 90 pounds per square inch. Every house in the city was thus given an adequate pressure as well as supply, after a new main had been laid to the square and the high l
Daniel W. Gooch (search for this): chapter 10
lestown works. A town meeting was called September 20, 1869, to hear the very able and exhaustive report which was read by the chairman of the committee, Eleazar Boynton, Jr. Although the committee was instructed to investigate the Charlestown water scheme, the report was strongly in favor of taking the Spot Pond water, stating that Malden had already voted to take from Spot Pond, and that Melrose probably would later. In the meantime the following prominent men, Samuel E. Sewall, Daniel W. Gooch and George W. Heath of Melrose, Elisha S. Converse, J. H. Abbott and George P. Cox of Malden, and James O. Curtis, Charles V. Bemis and Benjamin F. Hayes of Medford, had secured an act of the Legislature of 1867, incorporating them as the Spot Pond Water Company. The end in view was, to quote Judge Hayes, saving the pond for the use of the towns, if within any reasonable time they should desire, as municipalities, to utilize its waters. By this act the right was reserved to the three
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