Surface water discharge files, 1951-1982, bulk 1962-1972.

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Surface water discharge files, 1951-1982, bulk 1962-1972.

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The Division of Water Pollution Control develops and implements programs to prevent or clean up the pollution of surface and ground water in Massachusetts. Pursuant to St 1937, c 340 and St 1975, c 706, s 167, the division and its immediate predecessor in this function created files to investigate discharge of pollutants into surface waters; and to review, advise and prove public and private discharge practices and sources of water supply.

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Massachusetts. Division of Sanitary Engineering.

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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...