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Professor G. A. Reisner '89 has been chosen to an important post in Egypt. This is the charge of the excavations that are now being carried on above the new Assouan dam. A large tract of country is soon to be inundated by a raise in the level of the dam, and it is the intention of the Egyptian government to have this territory thoroughly explored for archacological remains before it is covered with water. With several trained assistants and a large force of workmen Professor Reisner entered on his work in September last, and in the first month...
Work on the Charles River Dam, which was begun March 1, 1905, is progressing as rapidly as can be expected. The principal causes for delay have been overcome. All the concrete and masonry work has been completed, and the dam in connection with the look and sluices has been finished. The large lock gates are being erected at the lock, and the sluice gates at the sluices. It is necessary to have the looks in operation before a beginning can be made on the cut-off of the tidal flow. Except for a few minor details, work...
Nothing will be attempted on the other Cambridge subway, authorized by the same act, which will go by way of Cambridge street to the Charles River Dam, until the first one is near completion. The building of the Cambridge street route may be postponed for 10 years. At the expiration of that period the city will have the right to build this subway, and after a 20-year period the right of purchasing all the subways...
...previously announced, the dam is being built on the site of the Craigie bridge and its length will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 340 to 490 feet. It will consist of two granite retaining walls backed by concrete, the space between the supporting piles being filled in with earth. No concrete will be visible from either the harbor or the basin side. The height of the dam will be 21 feet above the mean low water level and 13 feet above the full basin level, which is approximately two feet below high tide. Owing to additional plans...
This embankment, with the land already purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge, will form a continuous park system along the 17 1-2 miles of shore-line from Charlesbank Park to the dam at Watertown...