The Chicopee Valley Aqueduct carries water from the
Quabbin Reservoir
The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts, and was built between 1930 and 1939. Along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, to the east, and 40 other cities and towns in Greate ...
in
to the
Chicopee city line. It delivers Quabbin water to
Wilbraham,
South Hadley
South Hadley (, ) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,150 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
South Hadley is home to Mount Holyoke Colleg ...
fire district #1, and
Chicopee. It is part of the
Chicopee River Watershed
The Chicopee River is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts, known for fast-moving wate ...
.
History
In 1947, the Massachusetts Legislature authorized the construction of the aqueduct, which was completed three years later.
Present day
The
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to certain municipalities and industrial users in the state, primarily in th ...
initiated the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct Pipeline Redundancy project to provide redundancy and to improve reliability to the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct water transmission system to the three already served communities. The design phase was completed in 2001. Construction of a redundant barrel was substantially completed in 2008.
[http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/finance/cip/fy11proposed/document.pdf page 133]
Notes
References
*Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
Water System History accessed on 2006-10-08
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060728225354/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/news/2005-10.htm, accessed on 2006-10-08
{{Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Chicopee, Massachusetts
Aqueducts in Massachusetts
Transportation buildings and structures in Hampden County, Massachusetts
1950 establishments in Massachusetts
Infrastructure completed in 1950