Scope and Content: Massachusetts has administered water works and sewage disposal for the Boston metropolitan area successively through the Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (Metropolitan Sewerage Commission) (1889-1901) and the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985).  Since 1985, the sewerage works functions have been assigned to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the water works functions have been shared by the MWRA (distribution) and the Metropolitan District Commission (to 2003) and the Dept.  of Conservation and Recreation (since 2003) (water supply reservoirs and their watershed management). –As part of its function to construct, maintain, and operate a metropolitan water supply system, the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) in 1895 established the Aqueduct Dept. to coordinate the engineering work of the construction of a twelve-mile aqueduct (Nashua, later Wachusett) from the reservoir and dam at the Nashua River, Clinton, to Reservoir No. 5 (Sudbury Reservoir), Southborough, through the towns of Clinton, Berlin, Northborough, Marlborough, and Southborough. Initially, the Aqueduct Dept. also coordinated the engineering work for the reservoir and dam built upon the Nashua River, Clinton (Wachusett). In 1896, the reservoir component was transferred to the newly established Reservoir Dept., and the Aqueduct Dept. was renamed the Dam and Aqueduct Dept., continued under the Water Works of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919).  In 1904/05, the Reservoir Dept. merged back into the Dam and Aqueduct Dept., and was renamed the Dam and Reservoir Dept.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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