Show WORK OF improvement OM oil THE N NEPONSET ONSET RIVER massachusetts board of health did away with objectionable filature features the massachusetts state IL knard ilard ard of health was lust last year directed ind an so thorl Zed by the state 11 to spend 1 in improving the ne se river a stream which rises la in the ton a of and cows through six in towns and three sec section tons of the city of boston before discharging into dorchester bay the primary of the improvement la is the remedying remedy in of the and unhealthful con whit b have lone long eilston eil atod owing to the floddin of about 4 acres of land in fit n of the towns aej a 4 portion of the city of boston daring extended periods of each year this flooding flowing has been especially objection able bet because muse of the discharge dis charse into the river of many cla sea of waste wastes from paper pape r mills tann tanneries ea and other miah which w bach bare not only driven out tb the ash fish but being deposited on the over flowed meadows have bare given rise to very objectionable odora the board of health baa has already prevented v uie the discharge of kovage into the stream ni a d most roost of the mills tan nerl ceries and factories ct orles which alch discharge their waste waters aters into it have been re 1 to install filter beds and disposal p ants and it Is intended to eliminate all such pollution from the stream by the time the contemplated rectification and deepening of the main chan net have completed the bt en ening I 1 tic of the channel will reduce thu the length which Is to be treated from 12 OW miles to 10 miles the channel will be excavated to uniform bottom widths and nod slopes stores belne being given a I 1 capacity at all points to discharge the ordinary maximum run off of the tributary watershed but not necessarily that of extreme freshet flows emu as have occurred at intervals in the past for to entirely prevent flooding during these tho occasional intervals would involve a cost for excavation alone greater than the appropriation and one which probably would oot not be ju justified stIfled the actual work of f Is 14 expel expected ted to this 3 ear it moon us the aoud condition on the meadows will permit lilla work involve the removal of ISO OM cubic yard tards of mid and soft material ira cuble yirda of gravel grav and hard nu mi bertal and about 1000 1 yards of ledge rock OneL one aalf alt of the total cost of the vr Is to be distributed among the ton and out bitle 4 which ar benefited in p to portion tri the hp benefit to each |