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Pole and Conduit

Location

831 Mass. Ave, Basement Conference Room
Basement
831 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Neighborhood

  • Mid-Cambridge

Contact

Patricia Lewis
plewis@cambridgema.gov
617-349-6141

Description

A Meeting of the Pole and Conduit Commission will be held on

Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 10:00 A.M.

Michael J. Lombardi Building, 831 Massachusetts Avenue

Basement Conference Room

Continue from March P&C meeting for further investigation Nstar Electrical and Gas Company, 101 Linwood, Somerville, MA for the following:  Brookline Street – Northeasterly from pole #102/68 approximately 145 feet northeast from Putnam Ave – installing (41) forty-one feet – conduit.  This work is necessary to provide electrical service to 280 Brookline St.  W/O #01977182.

Continue from March 20th P&C meeting to determine who is responsible for paving.  Nstar Electrical and Gas Company, 101 Linwood, Somerville, MA for the following:  Chauncey Street  Westerly from MHC2748 approximately 63’ west of Mass Ave. – installing (145) one hundred and forty-five feet-conduit.  This work is necessary to provide electrical service to 1-3 Chauncey St.  W/O#01957137

 

New Petition:  Nstar Electrical and Gas Company, 101 Linwood, Somerville, MA for the following: 

River Street Westerly from MHC809 @ the intersection of Memorial Dr. installing 2 sets of duct banks-170ft X 2 (one hundred-seventy) = 340 feet – conduit.  River Street Southerly from MHC809 @ the intersection of Memorial Dr. installing 60 (sixty) feet – conduit then heading Westerly installing 165 (one hundred-sixty-five) feet-conduit.  Western Ave. Westerly from MHC69 @ the intersection of Memorial Dr., installing 230 (two hundred-thirty) feet – conduit.  This work is necessary for system improvement.  W/O #01966794.

New Petition:  Nstar Electrical and Gas Company, 101 Linwood, Somerville, MA for the following: 

Lexington Ave. – Westerly from pole #435/19 approximately 405 feet south of Huron St. – installing approximately (40) forty feet – conduit.  This work is necessary to provide electricity to 146 Lexington Ave.  W/O #1987758. 

New Petition:  Nstar Electrical and Gas Company, 101 Linwood, Somerville, MA for the following: 

Cambridge Pk Dr. Easterly from MHC3209 approximately 1600 feet west of Alewife Brook Pkwy – installing approximately (26) twenty-six feet – conduit.  This work is necessary for system improvement W/O#01913618

Approved from March 20th P&C meeting.  Subject to notifying abutters before any work is done.  Put on April 17th Pole and Conduit agenda for notice purposes.  Comcast 55 Concord Street, North Reading, MA for the following:  5 Magazine St., from existing Comcast manhole on Franklin St., Trench 23’ in the public way, installing 1-4” conduit ending at private property line of 5 Magazine St.  This will include the removal and replacement of the brick sidewalk.

New Petition:  Forest City Networks, LLC., 25 Bowditch Dr., Shrewsbury, MA 01545 for the following: 

Construct and install one 1-1/4” PVC for 60 feet from the existing Verizon manhole 26/36 on Albany St to the Level 3 JTP duct bank on Albany St.  Conduit will connect to Forest City 1-1/4” conduit within the duct bank.  Forest City Networks will install feet of FOC in the newly constructed manhole and conduit. 

New Petition:  Teleport Communications, 157 Green Street, Suite 2, Foxborough, MA for the following:  Traill Street – Public Way Install one (1), four-inch PVC conduit from an existing Utility Pole.  Numbered CEL/3 to a proposed manhole at the intersection of Traill Street and Mt. Auburn Street; a distance of approx.  192’.  Mt. Auburn Street – Public Way From the proposed manhole at the intersection of Traill. Street and Mt. Auburn Street install one (1), four-inch PVC conduit to proposed manhole at the intersection of Channing Street and Mt. Auburn and then continue through manhole to another proposed manhole opposite the entrance of Mt. Auburn Hospital thence continuing in a southerly direction to a hand hole on private property at 330 Mt. Auburn Street; distance approx. 660’. 

All work shall be completed in accordance with the specification set forth by the Cambridge Public Works Department.

New Petition:  Lightower Fiber Networks, 80 Central Street, Foxborough, MA, 01719 for the following:  Broadway Starting at existing Verizon manhole 26/81, place (2) 4” Verizon manhole 26/882A.  Installation of (1) 4” PVC conduit and other supporting and protecting equipment along the following way:  Broadway. 

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