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The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to 3.1 million people in sixty-one municipalities and more than 5,500 large industrial users in the eastern and central parts of the state, primarily in the Boston area. [2]
On Monday, Aug. 1, the City Clerk, Fire Department and Health, Human Services, Inspections (Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Gas) will begin taking new applications for permits and requests ...
The Comprehensive Permit Act [1] is a Massachusetts law which allows developers of affordable housing to override certain aspects of municipal zoning bylaws and other requirements. It consists of Massachusetts General Laws (M.G.L.) Chapter 40B, Sections 20 through 23, along with associated regulations issued and administered by the ...
Sudbury in 1856. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 24.6 square miles (64 km 2), of which 24.4 square miles (63 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2), or 1.06%, is water.
The dam and spillway were built in Ashland, a rural outer suburb west of Boston, in 1885 as one of the later elements of Boston's second major water supply system.This system impounded large sections of the Sudbury River, primarily in Framingham, from where the water was piped toward Boston via the Sudbury Aqueduct.
It was created when the Sudbury Dam was constructed to impound the Stony Brook branch of the Sudbury River; no part of the reservoir lies in the town of Sudbury. Nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) in the Sudbury Reservoir watershed are administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation as a limited-access public recreation area.
Thanks to SVT advocacy, most of the towns in the Sudbury Valley had established floodplain zones that protected upwards of 6,000 acres (24 km2) without having to spend dollars to acquire them. SVT was an organization run purely through the efforts of volunteers until Morgan became SVT's first Executive Director in 1981.
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