Report of the Acushnet Water Board, to the City Council. Containing 1. Operations of the Board for the Year 1870. 2. A History of the Works to the Close of the Same Year. 3,. The Rport of the Engineer and Superintendent to the Board, giving a Description of the Works. 4. A Description of the Pumping Engine, and a Statement of its Working, by a Board of Examiners by [ New Bedford Water Works ] - 1871

New Bedford, [ Massachusetts ]: Fessenden & Baker, 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 142 pages plus plates. 8vo. Publisher's black pebbled cloth. INSCRIBED by G. A. Briggs, the Engineer and Superintendent of the works. Previous owner name inked plus additional inked notes on front endpaper and occasionally in the text. With a nice toned lithograph of the Engine House as the frontispiece. With 10 lithographed full page figures in rear plus 5 folding tables. Additional plates, some folding, throughout the text. Cloth. A strong report of the New Bedford Water Works with financial information, status of the works, technical engineering details of performance and design, and relevant government correspondence related to the works. City Document No. 10.