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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 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]
The gates allowed water to be selectively channeled from any of the reservoirs (1, 2, or 3) into the Sudbury Aqueduct or into the river below the dam. There are also flood gates and equipment for moving the dam's flashboards. Today the gatehouse, Sudbury Aqueduct, and the pipes from reservoir number 3 remain part of MWRA's emergency systems.
Along the Weston Aqueduct from the Sudbury Reservoir to the Weston Reservoir 42°20′00″N 71°22′32″W / 42.3333°N 71.3756°W / 42.3333; -71.3756 ( Weston Aqueduct Linear Extends into Southborough , Worcester County , and Weston and Wayland in Middlesex County.
Along Sudbury Aqueduct from Farm Pond at Waverly St. (Framingham) to Chestnut Hill Reservoir (Newton) 42°17′33″N 71°18′44″W / 42.2925°N 71.312222°W / 42.2925; -71.312222 ( Sudbury Aqueduct Linear
The district roughly bounded by the Sudbury Aqueduct, Pleasant Street, Lake Avenue, Webster Court, and Crystal Street. The subdivision was laid out in the 1850s after the Boston and Charles Railroad line (now serving the MBTA Green Line D branch ) was extended through Newton from Brookline . [ 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 Chestnut Hill Reservoir was built between 1865 and 1870 to supplement the capacity of the Brookline Reservoir, which was then the terminus of the Cochituate Aqueduct. The Sudbury Aqueduct was completed in 1878, providing water to the reservoir from the Sudbury River in Boston's western suburbs. Its terminal chamber, a single-story granite ...