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Waste Weir A and its control house in Sherborn Walkers on the aqueduct in Newton. The Sudbury Aqueduct is an aqueduct in Massachusetts. It runs for 16 miles (26 km) from Farm Pond at Waverly Street in Framingham to Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood. A later built extension main runs from the Farm Pond gatehouse to ...
The unique Tokaanu Tailrace Bridge, a combined road and water bridge crosses a power canal of the Tongariro Power Scheme in the North Island of New Zealand. State Highway 41 travels along the top of this bridge, with the Tokaanu Stream, an important trout spawning stream, running under the road surface.
The door is in a round-arch recess, and the building is capped by a cupola. It houses controls for two 4-foot (1.2 m) mains connected to the Sudbury Aqueduct via the gatehouse at Reservoir No. 1. The water is directed either directly beyond the dam into Reservoir 1 or through the 4-foot mains to the Sudbury Aqueduct gatehouse. [2]
Water began to fill the reservoir on February 8, 1897, with construction of the reservoir's new Sudbury Dam on the Stony Brook Branch of the Sudbury River completed later that year. [ 4 ] When completed, the reservoir's surface area was 2.02 square miles (5.2 km 2 ), its average depth was 17 feet (5.2 m) and maximum depth was 65 feet (20 m ...
The main features are the steep Hemlock Gorge, the river, and Echo Bridge, a carrier of the Sudbury Aqueduct, which now forms part of backup systems of the Boston area water supply. The bridge was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.
The 13.5-mile (21.7 km) aqueduct begins at the Sudbury Dam, and passes through the towns of Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, and Weston. [2] In 1990, the route, buildings and bridges of the aqueduct were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Weston Aqueduct Linear District .
Sudbury Dam was built in 1894 to impound the Stony Brook branch of the Sudbury River. It has a large earthen embankment 1,800 feet (550 m) in length, and a concrete core wall with a spillway 300 feet (91 m) wide. There is a gate chamber, designed by Wheelwright & Haven, located on the dam north of the spillway.
The control house for Waste Weir D of the Sudbury Aqueduct in Newton, Massachusetts. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .