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 1896 established a Reservoir Dept. to coordinate the engineering work of the construction of the reservoir built upon the Nashua River, Clinton (Wachusett). Under the board’s successor, the Water Works of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919), the department merged into the Dam and Aqueduct Dept. in 1904/05 and was renamed the Dam and Reservoir Dept.. Prior to the establishment of the Reservoir Dept., the Water Board’s Aqueduct Dept. also coordinated the engineering work for the Nashua (Wachusett) Reservoir and its dam.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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