Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 2 of chapter 136 of the acts of 1987 is hereby amended by striking out clause (b) and inserting in place thereof the following clause:-

(b) may take by eminent domain under the provisions of chapter seventy-nine or chapter eighty A of the General Laws, or acquire, by lease, purchase, gift, or otherwise, and hold, the waters, or any portion thereof, of any pond, spring or stream, or of any groundwater sources of supply by means of driven, artesian or other wells, within the territorial limits of the town of Mashpee, or towns adjoining thereto, not already appropriated for the purposes of a public water supply by another governmental body, and the water and flowage rights connected with any such water sources; may take as aforesaid, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, all lands, rights of way and other easements necessary for collecting, storing, holding, purifying and preserving the purity of the water and for conveying the same to any part of the district, provided, however, that the location and arrangement of dams, reservoirs, springs, wells, pumping, purification and filtration plants and such other works as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be subject to the approval of the department of environmental protection or any successor state agency.