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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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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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 chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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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 chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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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). –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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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).
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Scope and Content: State oversight and regulatory functions relating to waterways of the Commonwealth have been exercised successively by the following: the Board of Harbor Commissioners (1866-1879) and the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners (1879-1916) (no. 1-4087); the Directors of the Port of Boston (1911-1916) (no. 1-215); the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands (1916-1919) (no. 1-299); the Division of Waterways and Public Lands in the Dept. of Public Works (1919-1927) (no. 1-4??, to 1925 only); the Dept. of Public Works as a whole (1927-1938); the Division of Waterways, within that department (1938-1974) and within the Dept. of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) (1974-1983); and, since 1983, within DEQE (Dept. of Environmental Protection since 1989), the Division of Wetland Protection and Waterways Regulation, renamed Division of Wetlands and Waterways Regulation by 1988 and Division of Wetlands and Waterways by 1989.
Arrangement: Arranged by application no
Restrictions: Originals are restricted; electronic copies (and indexing) available through Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection, 1 Winter St., Boston, MA 02108. For details consult Archives reference desk
Notes: Scheduled as: Waterways drawings
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