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NEW WORK 



New Haven 



The City of New Haven had previously made an appropria- 

 tion of $10,000 for mosquito-elimination work in 191 7, to be 

 expended through its Board of Health under the old law. The 

 Board of Health voted to place the matter entirely in the hands 

 of the director of the station. Contracts were let on a footage 

 basis for ditching the remaining salt-marsh areas within the limits 

 of the city. These marshes, with acreage and footage of ditches 

 required, are as follows : 



Fort Hale, or Harbor Marsh, 120 acres 44,443 feet 



Quinnipiac Marsh, 300 acres 167,988 feet 



West River Marsh (Congress Avenue to Chapel 



Street), 130 acres 38,355 feet 



Totals, 550 acres 250,786 feet 



Bast Haven 



A small section of marsh near Silver Sands in East Haven 

 was given attention, all of the marsh toward the west having 

 been ditched in 19 12. Here the work was done by means of 

 funds raised by the local improvement association. A small and 

 congested marsh was drained through an indirect and crooked 

 outlet, which had been choked and restricted here and there by 

 property owners where it had traversed their land. It seemed 

 best to cut a new outlet for some 700 feet in length along the 

 highway and on the right of way owned by the town. Additional 

 lateral ditches were cut, making in all an equivalent of about 

 12,732 feet, relieving about 50 acres of mosquito-breeding marsh. 



Orange 



A local improvement association raised funds by subscription 

 for ditching the lower part of Old Field Creek in West Haven, 

 and though the contract was let on a footage basis in 19 16, the 



