Water filtration grant case files, <1981-1986>.

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Water filtration grant case files, <1981-1986>.

As part of its mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply was authorized to review water filtration plant construction proposals of local and district water systems and administer a program reimbursing water systems for upgrading or constructing new facilities, pursuant to St 1982, c 286, ss 18-19. Series was created to administer this grant reimbursement program.

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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...