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 Water Works of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919) and its predecessor the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901), included a Sudbury Dept. established in 1896 to coordinate the engineering work of the Boston Water Board’s (1875-1895) unfinished Reservoir No. 5 and its dam (named Sudbury Reservoir and Dam) near the village of Fayville in the town of Southborough along the Stony Brook Branch of the Sudbury River (St 1895, c 488, s 6). The Boston Water Board had initiated the construction of this reservoir and dam in 1894 (St 1872, c 177; St 1894, c 108). Beginning in Jan. 1898, the metropolitan water works system westward from Chestnut Hill Reservoir of the Boston Water Board was transferred to the Metropolitan Water Board (St 1895, c 488, s 4, 10), and its maintenance was charged to the Sudbury Dept.  In 1904, Dexter Brackett, engineer of the Distribution Dept. and later (1907-1915) chief engineer of the Water Works as a whole, was also placed in charge of the Sudbury Dept.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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