Water emergency case files, <1989>-[ongoing].

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Water emergency case files, <1989>-[ongoing].

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As part of its mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply is empowered to impose water conservation measures in the event of water supply emergencies, pursuant to MGLA c 21G, ss 15 and 17, as amended by St 1989, c 240, s 101. Series is created to declare a state of water emergency and to impose water use restrictions upon affected communities.

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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...