Director's memorandums, 1977-[ongoing].

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Director's memorandums, 1977-[ongoing].

The Division of Water Supply has as its mandate the protection of drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, in the course of which it monitors the operations of water delivery systems. Its director oversees the operations of the division and issues formal directives to municipal and district water systems. Series is created to administer divisional programs.

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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...