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(a) May contract with any municipality, acting through its water
<br /> department, or with any water company, or with any water district, for
<br /> the purchase or sale of whatever water and/or waterworks facilities which `
<br /> maybe required, authority to furnish or purchase the same being hereby
<br /> granted, and may enter into such other contracts as may be necessary to
<br /> effectuate the purposes of this act, subject to District meeting appropriation
<br /> of any necessary funds required to effectuate any purchase of waterworks 31
<br /> In facilities as aforesaid;
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<br /> (b) May take by eminent domain under the provisions of chapter seventy-nine
<br /> or chapter eighty A of the General Laws, or acquire, by lease, purchase,
<br /> gift, or otherwise, and hold, the waters, or any portion thereof, of any pond,
<br /> spring or stream, or of any groundwater sources of supply by means of driven,
<br /> artesian or other wells, within the territorial limits of the town of Mashpee,
<br /> r` or towns adjoining thereto, not already appropriated for the purposes of
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<br /> a public water supply by another governmental body, and the water and
<br /> flowage rights connected with any such water sources; may take as aforesaid,
<br /> or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, all lands, rights of way and
<br /> other easements necessary for collecting, storing, holding, purifying and
<br /> y=, preserving the purity of the water and for conveying the same to any part
<br /> of the District; provided, that no source of water supply or lands necessary
<br /> for preserving the quality of such water shall be so taken or used without
<br /> mi first obtaining the advice and approval of the Department of Environmental
<br /> Quality Engineering or any successor State agency, and that the location
<br /> * and arrangement of all dams, reservoirs, springs, wells, pumping, purification i
<br /> r" and filtration plants and such other works as may be necessary in carrying
<br /> out the provisions of this act shall be subject to the approval of said Department;
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<br /> (c) May construct and maintain on the lands acquired and held under
<br /> this act, proper dams, wells, springs, reservoirs, standripes, tanks, pumping
<br /> ptants, buildings, fixtures and other structures, including the establishment
<br /> and maintenance of purification Works or systems, and may make excavations,
<br /> procure and operate machinery and provide such other means and appliances,
<br /> and do such other things as may be necessary for the establishment and
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<br /> maintenance of complete and effective water '.vorks; and for that purpose
<br /> may construct pipe lines, wells and reservoirs, may establish pumping works,
<br /> and may construct, lay, acquire and maintain aqueducts, conduits, pipes
<br /> and other works under or over any land, water courses, railroads, railways,
<br /> and public or other ways and along such ways, in said town, in such manner
<br /> as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same;
<br /> (d) May, for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, operating
<br /> and repairing such aqueducts, conduits, pipes and other works, and for all
<br /> other purposes of this act, dig up or raise and embark ary such lands, highways
<br /> a or other ways in such manner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel
<br /> on such %vays; provided, that the manner in which all chines are done upon
<br /> } ' any such way shall be subject to the direction of the appropriate governmental
<br /> agency of the respective towns in which such lards, highways or other ways
<br /> are located; and provided, further, that the District shall not enter upon,
<br /> or construct or lay any conduit, pipe or other works within the location of
<br /> a any railroad corporation except at such time and in such manner as it may
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<br /> agree upon with such corporation or, in case of failure to so agree, as may
<br /> be approved by the Department of Public Utilities;
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