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Municipal water managers ask lawmakers to protect historic registrations under Water Management Act
Summary
Representatives of Wellesley and the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission urged the committee to support House Bill 1018 to protect historic water registrations from new regulatory conditioning that would force local systems to implement nonessential use restrictions unrelated to actual reservoir capacity or supply.
Town and utility officials urged the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources to give a favorable report to House Bill 1018, a proposal they described as clarifying the scope of Water Management Act registrations and preventing regulations from conditioning historic registered withdrawal volumes.
David Cohen, Wellesley’s director of public works, told the committee that new regulations adopted by MassDEP in 2023 that condition registrations to require nonessential‑use restrictions during declared droughts have created public confusion. He said Wellesley currently receives…
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