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...Charles River Basin Commission, on receiving the approval of the War Department last May for the general construction plans of the Charles River Dam, immediately began the preparation of detailed drawings. These have been nearly completed and as soon as possible will by submitted to the War Department. When approved, bids for the construction of the work will be solicited...
...proposed structure will occupy substantially the side of the present East Cambridge or Craigie bridge, which will be removed. The dam will be sufficiently high to exclude all salt water and to maintain in the basin above, a water level approximately 8 feet higher than mean low water. On top of the dam there will be a roadway to replace the Craigie bride, and a parkway of about 7 acres...
...dam will be furnished with a navigation lock, 350 feet long, 40 feet wide and 13 feet in depth below mean low water level, and with a drawbridge and sluices. The lock will be on the Boston side the sluices on the Cambridge side. When completed, the dam will convert the tidal estuary of the Charles into a fresh water basin covering about 800 acres...
...agitation for the building of this dam which will be of such great importance to the University, has been of long duration. The project of a tidal basin in the Back Bay was first suggested in 1859, but not until the establishment of the permanent Metropolitan Park Commission in 1893 was it realized that the construction of a river park and embankment along the Charles River was essential to the scheme of public parks. A committee reported in favor of a dam, but nothing further was done. For the past three years, however, the project has been under serious consideration...
...work on the dam, together with the construction of a lock and draw and the dredging of the canals and channels incident to the improvements, will be in accordance with an act passed by the General Court and approved last June, by the terms of which the dam is to be constructed across the lower end of the river, a short distance above the Craigie Bridge. A large fresh water basin, extending from the Craigle Bridge up beyond the Longwood Bridge, will this be created, and the variation of level due to the tide will be largely eliminated. The improvements...