Outlet Channel Shaft #1, Station 1+25, looking northwest showing washout in concrete apron and riprap area, West Boylston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1944

Outlet Channel Shaft #1, Station 1+25, looking northwest showing washout in concrete apron and riprap area, West Boylston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1944

Item Information

Title:
Outlet Channel Shaft #1, Station 1+25, looking northwest showing washout in concrete apron and riprap area, West Boylston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1944
Sponsor:
Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission
Photographer:
Snow, Russell, 1902-1969
Date:
October 30, 1944
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Massachusetts Archives
Collection (local):
Massachusetts. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, Quabbin Reservoir, Photographs of Real Estate Takings
Subjects:
waterworks
aqueducts
reservoirs (water distribution structures)
engineering
dams (hydraulic structures)
Places:
Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > West Boylston
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 format)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/w6636q231
Terms of Use:
No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Print in album volume MDWSC, Real Estate, Ware River Watershed Protection, Volume 38, Chief Engineer set
See Quinapoxet Dam in background, left; from the 1940-1945 MDWSC Annual Report (p. 41): "The entire Wachusett Outlet Works were unwatered October 28 to November 18, 1944, for the first time since the original construction, and minor repairs made to the eroded channel downstream from the control gates."; see also #W-1861
Notes (acquisition):
Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission; Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Accession #:
EN4.06/1335x.MDWSC.RealEstate.W1854.Chief.Engineer
Identifier:
MDWSC_RE_W1854_CE