Water source approval case files, 1985-[ongoing].

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Water source approval case files, 1985-[ongoing].

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As part of its mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply issues permits to local and district water systems to withdraw water from previously unapproved sources such as ponds, streams, or reservoirs, pursuant to MGLA c 111, s 17. Series is created to investigate the quality of projected water sources and to authorize their use by water systems.

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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...