Biology section field survey files, <1963>-[ongoing].

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Biology section field survey files, <1963>-[ongoing].

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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. The division's biology section and its immediate predecessor in this function have created field survey files to characterize and qualitatively document the Commonwealth's rivers, streams, and aquatic habitats; and qualitatively document the Commonwealth's rivers, streams, and aquatic habitats; and to segment and classify water bodies into major habitats for the purposes of water use designation.

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Massachusetts. Division of Sanitary Engineering.

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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...