Monitoring well plan files, 1984-[ongoing].

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Monitoring well plan files, 1984-[ongoing].

The Division of Water Pollution Control develops and implements programs to prevent or clean up the pollution or surface and ground water in Massachusetts. Regulations governing ground water discharge permits require permit holders to sink wells to monitor ground water quality (314 CMR 5.10(6). Well plans are submitted by applicants to the division for review and approval; the division seeks to ensure that monitoring of wells adequantely represents monitoring of the quality of affected drinking water supplies.

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Massachusetts. Division of Water Pollution Control

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State responsibility for water pollution control has been exercised successively by the State Board of Health (1886-1914), the State Department of Health (1914-1919), and until 1975 by the Department of Public Health, specifically from 1945 by its Division of Sanitary Engineering; also since 1966 by the Division of Water Pollution Control, established in the Department of Natural Resources and transferred to 1974 to the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (Department of Environmental...