Documents: Pictures: Photos, St. Charles Street recharging, September, 2003

These pictures were taken outside 16 St. Charles Street, which is near Chandler Street in the South End of Boston. According to the meter, on September 10, the rate of flow was 8 gallons/minute (GPM). The flow had started at 20 GPM, but the basement of the house filled with water. The GPM was reduced several times to the present level. Buildings are generally designed to keep water away, and any recharging program must carefully consider the problem of flooding basements.
The hose leads to a side yard. Flouoscene dye was used in the water. It turned up in the adjacent basement.
In the side yard the hose goes in to a perforated pipe in the ground. This pipe was left over from a recharging system used during the Orange Line Corridor construction.