Excerpt from Report of a Joint Special Committee on Sewerage Your Committee, aware of the importance to the City of Roxbury, of the establishment of a proper and well ar ranged general system Of sewerage, the want of which is felt daily by all our citizens believed that their first duty would be to cause levels to be taken of the most impor tant streets by an Engineer, and their relative heights above tide water determined with mathematical accuracy Degrees also the distances measured from certain points to the most expedient outlets: and these facts and figures noted and marked on plans, which would give on inspection, the information which might be required for the prosecution of the work. Accordingly, Mr. T. B. Moses has been en gaged from time to time in ascertaining, by measurement, the various heights and distances, and executing the plans for the same, which accompany this Report. There ap pear to be three important natural channels for drainageand sewerage from the City of Roxbury viz: Muddy Brook, Smelt Brook, and Stony Brook. Muddy Brook forms the western boundary of the City, and when that part of the City, including a portion of Washington Street, Heath Street, Francis Street, and the villages in the neighborhood Of Longwood depot, increase in population, the value of this brook as an outlet for drainage and sewerage will be inestimable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.