Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission. Construction Division.

Responsibility for operating a system of waterworks and sewers in Boston and surrounding communities was exercised successively by the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919), specifically its Water and Sewerage divisions. Upon abolition of the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission (1926-1947), which constructed the Quabbin Reservoir, responsibility for that agency's construction projects and for those of the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the MDC was given to the MDC's Construction Division, known by 1972 as the Engineering Division.