United States Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts Water Pollution Surveys Collection
Under the federal New Deal in the late 1930s, the Works Project Administration authorized a series of surveys of major watersheds to gauge water quality and sources of pollution. In Massachusetts, the studies were coordinated by the Massachusetts Department of Health and resulted in a series of more or less detailed reports issued between September 1936 and January 1938.
The pollution survey collection contains reports for six major watersheds in New England — the Blackstone, Hoosic, Housatonic, Merrimack, Nashua, and Ten Mile — measuring the impact of both civic and industrial waste on regional water resources.
Background
Under the federal New Deal in the late 1930s, the Works Project Administration authorized a series of surveys of major watersheds to gauge water quality and sources of pollution. In Massachusetts, the studies were coordinated by the Massachusetts Department of Health and resulted in a series of more or less detailed reports issued between September 1936 and January 1938.
The pollution survey collection contains reports for six major watersheds in New England — the Blackstone, Hoosic, Housatonic, Merrimack, Nashua, and Ten Mile — measuring the impact of both civic and industrial waste on regional water resources.
Provenance unrecorded.
Reports for other river valleys (including the Deerfield, French, Millers, Quinebaug, Taunton, and Westfield Rivers) are available in the general library stacks.
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, May 2015.
)Cite as: United States Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts Water Pollution Survey Collection (MS 068). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.