Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-26
PROPOSITION NO. 2.
This Includes Proposition No. with the Ad-
dition of the following:

A dam on Stckney brook, at a point there
on so feet below the junction OF the said
brook and the Hack Townshend brook, said
dam to be of masonry and concrete, dam OF
sufficient thickness and 10 feet in height and
not less than feet thick at the bottom and
not less than feet thick at the top There
shall be used in the construction thereof the
best quality of Portland cement. There shall
be built with said dam a gate house by feet
in size, of stone and masonry, with sufficient
screens, valves and outlet for connecting with
the pipe line hereinafter provided for to prop
erly control the flow of water there. There
shall also be provided in said dam a 20-inch
waste pipe with waste gate at the bottom of
the dam, the overflow shall be 10 feet high
and the remaining portions of the dam two
feet higher. All the trees, roots, sod mould
and other vegetable matter shall be removed
from the territory to be flowed by said DAM
There shall be provided suitable and proper
paving to compel the dam to receive the over
flow. The l2-inch steel pipe included in propo
sition No. shall be laid from said dam and
connected with the outlet thereof, along the
course indicated and shown on the plan and
profile of Engineer Davis to Pleasant Val
ley. The pipe shall be laid at the bottom Of
a trench four feet deep, as nearly as car, be
but in all cases at a depth to prevent freez
ing while water shall be running therein. AT
all places, where bridge work is required the
freezing. The pipe shall be covered in said
trench, and shall be thoroughly iointed to pre-
vent leakage. Where the pipe line shall cross
the Washer brook, so called, and the brook
Immediately north thereof, there shall be pro-
vded at each point a suitable tee or intake to
take into the pipe line the water of said two
brooks, which intake shall be protected by
proper screens and gates. The water rights
to be conveyed shall include the right to take
the water from said two mentioned brooks
There shall be provided bridges of suitable
strength and capacity at all points where
bridges are required on said pipe line, and
there shall be put in suitable valves and blow
outs along the line and in the course of said
pipe line, not more than three in number.
From the point where said pipe line shall
empty into Pleasant Valley to the dam in
Pleasant Valley, provided in proposition No. l.,
the Pleasant Valley brook shall be cleaned OF
trees, roots, sod mould and other vegetable
matter to a sufficient depth and width to adj
nit the flow without material contamination
of the water which shall be turned thereinto by
said pipe line. There shall be provided such
protection as may be required, il any, by
state board OF health, to prevent the sewage
and contamination entering into said brook or
any branch above the site of the dam
There shall be laid and constructed a sewer
~ care for the sewage from the cottages on
Sunset lake, which sewer shall be of sufficient
size to care for the sewage of said cottages as
they are now built, and shall not be less than
six inches in diameter, and shall be constructed
at sufficient depth to make perfect drainage
and carried to such point as may be approved
by the state board of health.
For the above property, and with the work
completed according to the foregoing, there
shall be paid the following:
against the Chestnut Hill Reservoir company
on account of the Vernon street line; it shall
assume the mortgage of Sl25,000 on the
Chestnut Hill Reservoir company and shall
pay said Crowell and said companies the sum
of Sl45,000.