REPORTS OF THE WATER BOARDS, COMMISSIONERS, AND COMPANIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. THE following report is made in compliance with an act of legislature passed in 1879 requiring regular triennial returns to be made by all water boards and companies located in this Commonwealth, these reports to be made on a uniform plan, upon blanks furnished by the State Board for the purpose, the same to be published by the Board in its report to the Legislature, properly arranged by counties, and those in each county alphabetically. A certain want of uniformity is noticeable in these returns, rendered unavoidable in consequence of the different plans of organization of water companies and boards, their location, and their relation to other organizations in neighboring cities and towns. The entire number of companies and boards having waterworks in operation at the beginning of 1883 was seventyone, from which returns have been received at the office of the Health Department. They are as follows: In Barnstable County. - None. In Berkshire County. - Ten: the Adams Water Company, the Great Barrington Water Company, the Cheshire Water Company, the Berkshire Water Company (in Lee), the Lenox Water Company, the North Adams Fire District, the Ashley Water Works (in Pittsfield), the Richmond Water Company, the Stockbridge Water Company, the Williamstown Aqueduct Company. In Bristol County. - Four: the Attleborough Water Supply District, Fall River Water Works, New Bedford Water Works, Taunton Water Works. In Essex County. - Eight: Beverly Water Works, Danvers Water Works, Haverhill Aqueduct Company, Lawrence Water Works, Lynn Water Works, Newburyport Water Company, Peabody Water Works, Salem Water Works. In Franklin County. -Two: Glen Water Company (in Greenfield), Turner's Falls Water Company (in Montague). In Hampden County. - Six: Agawam Water Company, Chicopee Water Company, Holyoke Water Works, Springfield Water Works, Westfield Water Works, West Springfield Aqueduct Company. In Hampshire County. - Three: Amherst Water Company, Northampton Water Works, South Hadley Falls Water Works. In Middlesex County.-Sixteen: Arlington Water Works, Cambridge Water Works, Concord Water Works, Everett Water Works, Lincoln Water Works, Lowell Water Works, Malden Water Works, Medford Water Works, Melrose Water Works, Natick Water Works, Newton Water Works, Somerville Water Works, Waltham Water Works, Highland Water Works (in Winchester), Woburn Water Works, Wayland Water Works. In Nantucket County. - One: Wannacomet Water Company. In Norfolk County. Two: Brookline Water Works, Dedham Water Company. In Plymouth County. Four: Brockton Water Works, Hingham Water Company, Kingston Aqueduct Association, Plymouth Water Works. In Suffolk County. - Two: Boston Water Board, Chelsea Water Works. In Worcester County. - Thirteen: Athol Water Company, Clinton Water Works, Fitchburg Water Works, Gardner Water Company, Leominster Water Board, Milford Water Company, Northborough Water Works, Southbridge Water Supply Company, Spencer Water Company, Webster Water Works, Westborough Water Works, Worcester Water Works, Uxbridge Water Company. In addition to the companies and boards mentioned above, there are also seventeen other companies, whose works were |