Scope and Content: Responsibility for water delivery and sewer systems in the Boston metropolitan area has been successively that of the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); Water and Sewerage Divisions, Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985); and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (since 1985)
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Conservation was established in 1919 and replaced with the Dept. of Natural Resources in 1953.  That department was abolished effective 1975 with its constituent parts distributed among agencies of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1992. Source unrecorded
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Scope and Content: Responsibility for water delivery and sewer systems in the Boston metropolitan area has been successively that of the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); Water and Sewerage Divisions, Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985); and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (since 1985)
Notes: Title page title: Geology of the Wachusett Reservoir area, central Massachusetts, with specific reference to the Wachusett bypass options / prepared by David D. Ashenden
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Scope and Content: The Charles River (Echo) Bridge was constructed by the Boston Water Board (1875-1877) to transport the Sudbury River Conduit (later Aqueduct) over the Charles River as it runs through Newton Upper Falls. Today the aqueduct is used for emergency backup only, but this section of it can be traced on foot by a path running from Ellis Street, Newton Upper Falls, to Reservoir Street, Needham. A more detailed account follows:
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Scope and Content: As the body responsible for the general care and supervision of Massachusetts harbors and tidewaters, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners had as its primary function to insure that the channels were fully navigable and to otherwise protect, improve, and develop these areas.  St 1881, c 196 provided that the boundaries of municipalities bordering on the sea would extend to the line of the Commonwealth as already defined by law. The commissioners were to locate and define the boundaries between localities from the high water mark outward, and to file reports accompanied by suitable plans and exhibits, showing said boundary lines, with the appropriate registry of deeds and the office of the state secretary. Reports were issued by county: Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes and Nantucket, Plymouth and Norfolk, and Suffolk and Essex. –Accompanying plans are found in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Maps and plans ((M-Ar)50), and may be located through the Massachusetts Archives Shelflist Database (consult reference staff)
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919) have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of land for the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities).  Series is created to document reservation land, parkways, and buildings owned and operated by the commissions.
Arrangement: Arranged by location
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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).
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by reservoir
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission sent out field teams to establish and describe triangulation stations and to set monuments designating boundary lines.  These volumes of resulting horizontal directions, triangle sides, and geographical positions are based on the field notebooks of the survey teams.  Calculations were verified, adjusted, and prepared by the U.S. Coast Survey and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to supervise the waterways of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Department of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, to 1916, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1916-1919, and the Department of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938) conducted surveys of rivers, ponds, and harbors.  Survey notebooks contain computations needed to map rivers.
Arrangement: Arranged by name of river or section
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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).
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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