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) established a Weston Aqueduct Dept. in 1900 to coordinate the engineering work of the construction of a thirteen-mile aqueduct from the Sudbury Reservoir to the main pipe system of the metropolitan water district (through the towns of Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, and Weston, and terminating less than a half mile west of the Charles River), and the construction of the aqueduct’s equalizing reservoir in Weston and named the Weston Reservoir.  Under the board’s successor, the  Water Works of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919), the department was abolished in 1904 upon the completion of the aqueduct and the reservoir in 1903. Remaining construction and the aqueduct’s maintenance was transferred to the Distribution Dept. Preliminary work pertaining to the Weston Aqueduct had been performed by the Dam and Aqueduct Dept. prior to the establishment of the Weston Aqueduct Dept.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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