Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board: For the Year 1916 Studies for the disposal of manufacturing wastes, as well as for the disposal Of house drainage from the various towns within the drainage area of the Metropolitan Water System, have been in progress during the year. Some of the territory lying about the origin of Gates Brook near the boundary line between the town of West Boylston and the City of Worcester has been for some years a menace to the purity of the waters of the Wachusett Reservoir. Quite recently a number of small houses with insufficient provision for the disposal of their waste matter have been erected in this district. It has seemed to the Board that the most effective remedy for the conditions thus existing would be Obtained by the purchase of the margins of the brook and such regulation of its course as would make the direct introduction of sewage into it impossible. The necessary land has been secured and a considerable portion of the work for the regu lation of the brook has been effected. This work will be completed during the coming season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.