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| New England |
More than half of the waterworks systems operating by the end of 1800 were in New England. The following table showing the number of communities with operating systems. Numbers in parentheses indicates the number of systems that were proposed but not constructed by the end of 1865.
| New England | 1795 | 1800 | 1805 | 1810 | 1815 | 1820 | 1825 | 1830 | 1835 | 1840 | 1845 | 1850 | 1855 | 1860 | 1865 | 1870 | 1875 | 1880 |
| Maine | 0 | 3 | 5 (1) | 5 (1) | 7 (1) | 7 (1) | 8 (1) | 9 (2) | 12 (1) | 13 (2) | 13 (2) | 14 (2) | 16 (2) | 16 (3) | 16 (3) | 18 | 21 | 23 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 12 (2) | 15 (4) | 16 (4) | 19 (5) | 19 (6) | 19 (7) | 21 (6) | 22 (6) | 24 (6) | 25 | 28 | 30 |
| Vermont | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 12 (1) | 13 (2) | 15 (2) | 16 (3) | 17 (3) | 18 (3) | 20 (3) | 22 (4) | 23 (6) | 24 (8) | 27 | 28 | 33 |
| Massachusetts | 4 | 16 (6) | 20 (6) | 22 (6) | 22 (6) | 25 (6) | 29 (6) | 30 (6) | 33 (6) | 36 (6) | 40 (6) | 42 (6) | 44 (8) | 46 (9) | 47 (9) | 55 | 74 | 86 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 (1) | 6 (1) | 6 (1) | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| Connecticut | 1 | 7 | 10 (2) | 10 (2) | 10 (2) | 12 (2) | 13 (2) | 13 (2) | 15 (2) | 17 (2) | 18 (2) | 19 (2) | 19 (2) | 20 (4) | 24 (6) | 29 | 33 | 39 |
| Total | 11 | 36 (6) | 52 (9) | 57 (9) | 66 (9) | 73 (10) | 80 (13) | 87 (16) | 98 (16) | 108 (18) | 114 (19) | 120 (20) | 128 (23) | 133 (29) | 143 | 160 | 190 | 219 |
This table shows the number of systems built in each half-decade:
| New England | 1800 | 1805 | 1810 | 1815 | 1820 | 1825 | 1830 | 1835 | 1840 | 1845 | 1850 | 1855 | 1860 | 1865 | 1870 | 1875 | 1880 |
| Maine | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Vermont | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 12 |
| Rhode Island | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Connecticut | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Total | 25 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 30 | 29 |
The New England Water Works Association,
established in 1882, is a section of the American Water Works Association
References
1882-1885 Transactions of the New
England Water Works Association | 1882
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1886 Journal of the New England Water Works Association | NEWWA Journal on archive.org | NEWWA Journal on HathiTrust
1887 A collection of diagrams representing the general plan of twenty-six different Water-Works. Contributed by Members of the New England Water-Works Association, and compiled by a committee. November 1, 1887.
1916 Index to the Transactions and Proceedings of the New England Water Works Association 1882-1915
1931 Index to NEWWA Transactions and Journals 1882 to 1930
1937 Municipal Water Supplies of New England, Carol Y. Mason, Economic Geography, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Oct., 1937), pp. 347-364
1950 Index to the Transactions and Journal of the New England Water Works Association 1882-1950 | Subject | Author |
1950 Index to the Transactions and Journal of the New England Water Works Association 1950-1960 | Subject | Author |
1984 Hard Choices: Supplying Water to New England Towns, Letty Anderson, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 211-234
1988 "Fire and Disease: The Development of Water Supply Systems in New England, 1870-1900," by Letty Anderson, Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America, by Joel A. Tarr and Gabriel Dupuy, pages 137-156.
1991 Nature incorporated : industrialization and the waters of New England, by Theodore Steinberg | another copy |
2006 New England Water Supplies – A Brief History, by Marcis Kempe, Journal of the New England Water Works Association 120(3) (September 2006)
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