Pesticide analysis forms, 1977-[ongoing].

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Pesticide analysis forms, 1977-[ongoing].

As part of its mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply requires testing of supplies for potential contamination, pursuant to MGLA c 111, s 160. Series is created to test water supplies for levels of contamination by pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

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Lawrence Experiment Station (Mass.)

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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...