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359 <br />and he replied that he called it Hardy's pond Brook and <br />that it flowed about 1400 feet down from Waltham Street. <br />1 <br />He said that the Town had done some work cleaning out the <br />brook and doing a little blasting last week, but that it <br />was maintenance work and not construction work. <br />Mrs. Cutler said that if the Town intended to do <br />any widening of -the brook, it should be .done on her land. <br />Mr. Raymond said that some time ago there probably <br />was a ditch cut through which came up toward Grassland <br />Street. He said that this brook flows toward Waltham and <br />into Hardy's Pond eventually, except in very wet weather <br />when it flows into a ditch that Mr. Cutler dug and thence <br />into the west. Mrs. Cutler said that she had a very small <br />piece of land in Waltham and there was stoppage at that <br />end of the brook also. <br />The Chairman said that it would not do any good to <br />do work on the Lexington side if the water flows toward <br />Waltham. He said.he thought the problem was for Waltham <br />to clean out the brook on their side and that that would <br />probably take care of the situation. Mrs. Cutler said <br />that it would not take care of the situation if more water <br />came from the McCullough land. The Chairman said that the <br />Town did not have any right to divert water from the <br />McCullough land. He also said that the Town did not have <br />any right to go in and do work on brooks on private land. <br />Mr. Raymond said that he thought there were some, <br />pipes in Waltham that were not large enough to take care <br />of the water. jhe Chairman told Mrs. Cutler that Mr. • <br />Cosgrove and Mr. Raymond could look over that portion of <br />the brook within the confines of the Town of Lexington, <br />and if Lexington was to blame, that the town would take <br />care of it. He said that Mrs. Cutler would be advised of <br />any responsibility that the Town might have. <br />Mr. Copeland asked, if, after Messrs. Raymond and <br />Cosgrove found what the facts were and if, in their <br />opinion they thought that Waltham could remedy the sit- <br />uation, the Board would write Waltham and ask them to take <br />care of the matter. The Chairman said that the Board <br />would be glad to be of any assistance it could. <br />They retired. <br />Mr. Raymond read a paragraph from Metcalf and Eddy's <br />Report stating that suitable drainage could not be pro- <br />vided in this area until the way was opened up to Hardy!s <br />Pond. The Chairman said that he did not know the Town was <br />doing any work on brooks in this section. Mr. Raymond <br />said that he received a complaint from Lima and he walked <br />the brook from the State Highway to Concord Avenue. He <br />found an obstruction and also found that the water was <br />about two feet above the top of the culvert at the new <br />highway. He instructed Mr. Paxton to remove the ob- <br />' <br />struction which he did and realizing that this was only <br />a temporary job, he did some blasting which widened the <br />brook for about 100 feet and in doing so, damaged a house. <br />Mr. Raymond said that the brook in question took the water <br />