Operating subject files, 1973-[ongoing] (bulk 1979-1985).

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Operating subject files, 1973-[ongoing] (bulk 1979-1985).

As part of their mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply and its immediate predecessor have developed and published policies and guidelines to inform local officials of their responsibilities as water system administrators. Series is created to develop such statements by establishing methodologies for water testing and collecting information on water quality issues.

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Massachusetts. Division of Environmental Health.

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Massachusetts. Division of Water Supply

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State oversight of public drinking water supplies and systems has been exercised successively by the following agencies: State Board of Health (1869-1879), State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886), and State Board of Health (1886-1914); also State Dept. of Health (1914-1919) and Dept. of Public Health (1919-1975), specifically from 1914 under the Division of Sanitary Engineering, renamed Division of Environmental Health in 1969 (including its Bureau of Water Supply and Water Qualit...