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Excerpt from Report on Sewerage in the City of Providence: Made by the Water Commissioners as a Committee Constituted by the Board of Aldermen to Construct Certain Sewers This plan is comparatively new and untried; while it deals with but a small part of the refuse that must be removed. The scheme is certainly not, in a condition to warrant its introduction in this community at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born on May 31, 1834 in Pepperell, Massachussets, United States, the eldest of eight children of Joel and Eliza (Edson) Shedd. He was descended from Daniel Shed, who settled in Braintree, Massachussets, about 1642; his great-grandfather, Joel Shedd, was a soldier of the Revolution.
He was educated in the public schools and at Bridgewater Academy.
Shedd began his professional life in 1850 as a student in the office of Thomas and John Doane in Charlestown, Massachussets. He made rapid progress and before his three years of study were completed went to Indiana to engage in railroad work in a responsible capacity.
In 1856 he opened an office in Boston which he maintained for forty years. Many young engineers who later became prominent began their studies in his office. He soon became well known in the field of hydraulic engineering; in 1860 he was appointed by Gov. John A. Andrew of Massachusetts as commissioner on the Concord and Sudbury rivers and in 1876 he was made chairman of the newly established Board of Harbor Commissioners of Rhode Island, a position he retained for the rest of his life.
He was later identified with many other state commissions in Rhode Island, serving as commissioner to the exposition at Paris in 1878, on the Rhode Island-Connecticut Boundary Commission and the Pawcatuck River Commission in the middle eighties, and on the Sakonnet River Stone Bridge Commission, 1902-10.
His best-known works are probably those for the city of Providence. As early as 1866 he began investigations for a water supply, in 1869 he was appointed chief engineer in charge of construction, and in 1877, having completed the task, resigned, retaining a connection as consulting engineer. In 1871, while in charge of the water works, he designed and began the construction of a sewerage system which was completed between 1890 and 1897, while he was city engineer of Providence. After this time he closed his Boston office and practised as a hydraulic and sanitary engineer in Providence for the remainder of his life.
He was commissioned to investigate the failure of the Diamond Hill Reservoir dam in the great freshet of 1886, which caused much damage in the valley of Abbott Run, near Pawtucket. He devised and established systems for the measurement of water used for power purposes at various places in New England, including Norwich and Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and Lewiston, Maine.
In his later years he was engaged chiefly as an expert in valuation of water power and water works, and in this field, as an expert witness, he has rarely been equaled. Shedd devised and patented the Shedd water meter (September 7, 1880) and in connection with his work on the Providence sewerage project devised and patented a trap for house drains and waste pipes (April 9, 1878). Later patents issued to him were for a movable dam (with O. P. Sarle, Jr. ), December 3, 1901, and a hydraulic air compressor, September 8, 1903.
He died in Providence.
Joel Herbert Shedd was a well-known professional in work with damage caused by the diversion of water for public supplies. Some of his notable water diversion cases included the Abbott Run-Pawtucket case; the Tatnuck and Kettle Brook diversion cases of Worcester, Massachussets; and the Wachusett Reservoir cases on Nashua River in Massachusetts. He designed and developed the water-power project at Rumford Falls, Maine, one of the largest works of this kind. He patented the Shedd water meter and a trap for house drains and waste pipes, a hydraulic air compressor.
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He had frankness of manner and pleasant personality.
He married in Medford, Massachussets, August 26, 1856, Julia Ann, daughter of Thomas Clark of Newport. She contributed widely upon art to various publications and was the author of several books, including Famous Painters and Paintings (1876) and Famous Sculptors and Sculpture (1881). She died in 1897, having borne two sons and a daughter, and on June 29, 1905, Shedd married Sarah Marble of North Smithfield, who with one son of his first marriage survived him.
