Cross connection permits, <1972>-[ongoing] (bulk <1981>-[ongoing]).

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Cross connection permits, <1972>-[ongoing] (bulk <1981>-[ongoing]).

As part of their mandate to protect drinking water supplies in Massachusetts, the Division of Water Supply and its immediate predecessor have regulated backflow devices between public water supplies and other water supplies, pursuant to MGLA c 111, c 160A, as implemented by 310 CMR 22.22 (3). Series is created to authorize localities to maintain water supply cross connection systems.

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Massachusetts. Division of Environmental Health.

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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...