Spring Waters in which the Excess of Chlorine above the Normal is over 0.60 Parts per 100,000.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SPRINGS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS.

Arlington, Robbins Spring. About two thousand feet south. from the corner of Brattle and Main streets. Stoned and cemented reservoir, five feet wide and six feet deep, covered by a small house. The water, which enters from below, from ledge, is three feet deep and a little lower than the surrounding ground; it is said to overflow all the year round. Surface water is excluded. The spring is at the eastern base of a rocky hill covered with wild shrubs and trees. No pasture within four hundred and fifty feet above. The natural drainage is east, towards Main Street. No buildings on drainage area. The grounds about the spring are resorted to considerably on holidays. Water is sold in Boston, Somerville, Arlington and Cambridge.

Belmont, Belmont Natural Mineral Spring. This spring is in a valley in a large grassed farm, with considerable underlying rock, covered by loam, about half a mile from Lexington, on J. H. Cotton's estate, and about twelve hundred feet east of his Winter Street buildings. The water rises nearly to the surface of the ground into a reservoir four feet wide and two and a half feet deep, hewn in solid rock, and covered by a stone arch. Surface water is excluded. Drainage from north and west chiefly. No dwelling-houses on drainage area except possibly the Cotton buildings, five hundred feet west, considerably higher than the springs; manure heaps under barn one hundred feet farther. But all the drainage from these buildings would probably flow south, away from the spring. No top-dressing on farm nearer than three hundred feet, and this is on

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the east side, where the drainage is probably away from the spring. Market garden, with exposed manure heaps, seven hundred and fifty feet north of spring, which also probably drains away from the spring. A few flower beds around the spring and a little higher, the nearest being forty-five feet, on which a little barnyard manure is used. Pasture five hundred feet north of spring on drainage area. Water is sold in Boston, Waltham, Newton, Lexington, etc.

Boston, Allandale Mineral Spring. - On Allandale Street several hundred feet south from Centre Street, Jamaica Plain. The water rises to within two feet of the surface, in a reservoir seven and a quarter feet in diameter and four and a half feet deep, with stoned and cemented sides and rock bottom. The reservoir is in a small house; surface water excluded; iron pipe; considerable overflow at time of collection. The formation around the spring is mainly gravel and conglomerate. The general direction of the ground water flow is south. The land north of the spring is covered with wild shrubs and trees to a distance of four hundred and fifty feet; beyond are partly grassed fields and pasture land. No buildings on the drainage area within one thousand feet. There is a privy a few hundred feet south, and a little higher than the spring, but there is a dry run between, a little lower than the spring, which would probably lead away any drainage. The grounds around the spring are sometimes used for picnics. The water is sold in Boston, Jamaica Plain, Brookline, etc.

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Framingham, Nobscot Mountain Spring. Large spring at base of ledge east side of Nobscot Mountain. Cemented reservoir, five feet by nine feet and five feet deep; covered by small house; water flows by gravity through block-tin pipe to filling station fifty feet below. Water-shed heavily wooded except directly above spring, where two or three acres have been cleared; no houses on watershed; used for pasturage to a limited extent. Water sold in Framingham and Boston.

Holbrook, White Rock Spring. About half a mile from Plymouth Street, a mile from Holbrook Centre. Stoned reservoir, two feet in diameter, three feet deep, one and one-half feet depth of water. Surface water not excluded; no cover; no pump. Said to become dry at times. Flow of water from south-west; no houses in that direction for a mile or more. Drainage area covered by wild growth;

no pasture land. Water sold in Holbrook.

Lawrence, Cold Spring. An open spring in sandy soil; no houses in the immediate vicinity, none on the slope back of the

spring. A small brook runs between the spring and the houses in Lawrence.

Lowell, Sheeprock Spring. This is an artesian well near the top of a wooded ridge, about eighty feet deep through black granite ledge. All the water is pumped.

Medford, Fulton Natural Spring. About seventeen hundred feet north-east from corner of Valley and Paris streets, Medford, in Middlesex Fells. A bricked and cemented reservoir, six feet deep and four feet in diameter, in a small house. Water rises from rock at the bottom to within two feet of the surface and overflows; said to overflow all the year round. Drainage is toward the south-west. The spring lies at the base of a rocky hill covered mainly with wild shrubs and trees. There are probably no buildings on the drainage

Several houses a few hundred feet north-west drain apparently away from the spring. No cultivated land on the drainage area except a well-manured field of about an acre three hundred and seventy-five feet north of the spring. Underground drainage from this may reach the spring, but probably most of it is carried away by a small brook. No pasture land above the spring. Water sold in Medford only.

Medford, Middlesex Mountain Spring. In Middlesex Fells, on the hill, a few hundred feet north of Valley Street quarry. The water collects in a gravel basin about twelve by fifteen feet and six feet deep, under a large spring house at the eastern base of the ledge. Most of the land above the spring is wild and uncultivated until the farmhouse, No. 15 Earl Avenue, is reached, two hundred feet above. Its surface drainage could not reach the spring. The privy is two hundred and forty-five feet from the spring; its vault rests on a rock, and has earth sides; no exposure of contents. There are no other houses in the vicinity. The houses west of the spring are on the other side of the hill.

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Methuen, Otis Spring. Merely a hole dug in rocky soil two or three feet deep, in a wooded region. Surface water not excluded. No houses within half a mile. Water sold in Lawrence.

Milton, Blue Hill Silver Spring. - Eighty-five feet north from Blue Hill Street, about half a mile east from Canton Avenue, at the southern base of a high, rocky hill, covered with wild shrubs and trees. A stoned and cemented reservoir, three and one-half feet in diameter and five feet deep; water stands two and one-half feet in well and about one and one-half feet below the surface of the ground.

Overflowing when collected. Plank cover; surface water excluded. · Portable copper pump with iron pipe used for getting water for sale. Sold in Boston and Milton.

West Lynn, Echo Grove Mineral Spring. A few hundred feet south-west of house of John Raddin, near corner of Bell Avenue and Ashland Street, West Lynn. Well about thirty-two feet deep, the lower twenty-two feet in solid rock; about ten feet wide at bottom, upper ten feet smaller diameter. Stoned and cemented; stones rest on iron rails ten feet from top. Water is ordinarily about sixteen feet deep, and touches the rails very seldom; it is never dry. Covered by small house, surface water excluded. Drainage is towards the south-west. The well is on a rocky hillside covered with grass and a few trees; used part of the time as pasture. Only houses on drainage area are a few picnic buildings. The privy is eighty-five feet south-east from spring, and higher; contents rest on ground, and are almost completely protected from rain. Water sold in Lynn.

Chelsea, Mt. Washington Spring. In grassed valley, between Cook and Washington avenues, about three hundred and fifty feet from corner of Fenno Street and Washington Avenue. Bricked reservoir, eight feet in diameter and six feet deep; water rises nearly or quite to the level of the ground. A slight ascent to the nearest privy, which is two hundred and seventy-five feet away, near the corner of Cook and Washington avenues. Its vault is cemented all around. Sink-drain cesspool near by, but no water-closet cesspool anywhere in the vicinity. Several vaults within a few hundred feet more on Cook Avenue, also several vaults and sink cesspools on Washington Avenue, but not nearer than three hundred feet. They are higher than the spring, but a ditch one and one-half feet deep is between them. Lime sludge from soda-water factory is dumped forty-five feet from the spring but probably cannot affect it.

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Stoneham, Cedar Park Mineral Spring or Vishnu Mineral Spring. About three hundred feet south-west from Chapman's Mineral Spring, several hundred feet north from A. Alden's house on Spring Street. Cemented curb two and one-half feet in diameter and six feet deep, in house. Water enters through sand at the bottom, and rises nearly or quite to the level of the ground; said to overflow all the year round; surface water excluded. The well is in a marshy, grassed meadow, containing many ditches; one ditch is within fifteen feet of the well on the side farthest from the ridge

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on the south and west, whence comes the ground water. pasture land one hundred and seventy-five feet above. considerable sources of contamination are the houses and stables on Spring Street, from five hundred to eight hundred feet away. Water sold in Boston, Melrose, Stoneham, Wakefield, etc.

Lowell, Mt. Pleasant Spring. A few hundred feet south-east from the corner of Stedman and Westford streets. Stoned and cemented reservoir, nine and one-half feet deep; depth of water three and one-half feet; covered by small house; surface water excluded; no pump; said to overflow all the year round. At the northerly base of a high, sandy hill, covered by pines for a few hundred feet; beyond the pines is wild shrubbery. No pasture land near. Water sold in Lowell.

Brockton, Indian Spring. About half a mile north from corner of Quincy and Ashland streets; open, stoned reservoir, three by five feet, and three feet deep; depth of water two feet, rises nearly to level of the ground. No covering; surface water partly excluded ; considerable overflow at the time of collection. Ground water flows from east and south. Considerable amount of leather chips and a little manure on the road leading to the spring from the east, but most or all of the surface flow from the road is carried beyond the spring. No buildings on the drainage area, which is covered by wild shrubs and trees. No pasture land near the spring. Water

sold in Brockton.

West Lynn, Electric Spring. -At southerly corner of Cliff and Linwood streets. Bricked well, four feet diameter at bottom, tapering to top; thirteen feet deep; water rises nearly to level of the ground; overflows all the year round. Covered by house; surface water excluded. In clay and hard blue gravel, at westerly base of a rocky hill covered with shrubbery. Drainage is from north-west and west. Nearest privy is one hundred and fifty feet north-west, on side hill, much above the spring; a shallow vault dug in the earth; contents are slightly exposed. A small garden below the privy, eighty feet west from the well. A stable one hundred and fifty feet north from the well, on higher ground; considerable manure scattered out doors, one hundred and forty feet from the well. But most of the spring water comes from the main hill, farther west. The above are probably the only buildings on the drainage area. Water sold in Lynn only, mainly in summer.