Scope and Content: Responsibility for operating a system of waterworks and sewers in Boston and surrounding communities was exercised successively by the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919), specifically its Water and Sewerage divisions.  Upon abolition of the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission (1926-1947), which constructed the Quabbin Reservoir, responsibility for that agency’s capital construction projects and for those of the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the MDC was given to the MDC’s Construction Division, known by 1972 as the Engineering Division.
Arrangement: Arranged by project or contract no.
Notes: Transferred chiefly from Metropolitan District Commission, 1980 (1980/179) –copied from originals in MDC archives ca. 1985 by Boston Affiliates, Inc. as part of Deer Island Pumping Station documentation project for Historic American Engineering Record; presented to Archives by Boston Affiliates, Inc., Dec. 20, 1991. –removed to: Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission. Metropolitan Water Works photograph collection, 1876-1930 ((M-Ar)2630X) –removed to: Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission. Construction photographs ((M-Ar)2299X); Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission. Parks contract photographs ((M-Ar)1326) –transferred to Archives by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives, Jan. 13, 1997 (1997/5); some items later removed to box 1, then to series (M-Ar)2630X, subseries 3, box 11. –7600 series MWW photographic print albums chiefly removed to series (M-Ar)2630X as subseries 2, with paper copy prints (chiefly boxes 101-108) deaccessioned
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