Facility engineering report files, <1969>-[ongoing]

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Facility engineering report files, <1969>-[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. Entities authorized to construct, own, operate, extend, or improve abatement facilities must submit preliminary engineering reportsof final engineering plans to the division for approval (MGLA c21, s33B). Facility engineering reports are retained by the division to review, revise, and approve plans for treatment facilities, and to document the treatment process on which inspections, enforecment actions, permitting, and licensing will be based. Files contain drawings, plans, specifications, and approval letters, Information includes analysis of wastes to be disposed; physical, biological and chemical wastewater treatment needed; volume and characteristics of effluents; and process of treatment planned. Files relating to industrial entities are found in Facility engineering report files ((M-Ar)N246) held by the Division of Industrial Waste Water Management.

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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...