December 2009
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Overview

This data, stored as a table that may be joined to community boundary (Towns) polygon layers, contains the public Electric, Gas, and Cable (television and perhaps other services) utility providers for each Massachusetts municipality as of May 2008. The source of data for Electric and Natural Gas was the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities as of April 23, 2008. The source of data for Cable utilities was the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable as of May 7, 2008.
Also included in the table are data from 2005. Sources of data for Electric and Gas utilities were utility websites and, where necessary, verbal confirmation with the municipality. Data for Cable utilities were provided by the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy as of May 12, 2005.
 
The table is stored as TOWNS_POLY_UTILITIES and may be joined to the Towns from Survey Points (TOWNSSURVEY_POLY) or Towns (TOWNS_POLY) layers on the TOWN_ID field.
2008 Electricity Providers by Town
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Electricity
 PDF Map pdf format of elec08.pdf
 
2008 Natural Gas Providers by Town
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Natural Gas
 PDF Map pdf format of gas08.pdf
 
Cable Providers by Town 2008
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Cable
 PDF Map pdf format of cable08.pdf
 
These themes are available in Oliver and the MassGIS Data Viewer from the menu choices:
CATEGORY:Infrastructure > SUBCATEGORY:Public Utility Providers

Attributes

The TOWNS_POLY_UTILITIES table has the following items:
Item Name
 		 
 		Width/Type
 		 
 		Description
 
TOWN_ID
 		3 / I
 
 		3-digit municipality identifier (1-351)
TOWN
 		21 / C
 		Official municipality name
 
ELEC
 		30 / C
 		Current (2008) Electric service provider
 
GAS
 		30 / C
 		Current (2008) Natural Gas service provider
CABLE
 		30 / C
 		Current (2008) Cable service provider
ELEC_2005
 		30 / C
 		2005 Electric service provider
GAS_2005
 		30 / C
 		2005 Natural Gas service provider
CABLE_2005
 		30 / C
 		2005 Cable service provider

Maintenance

MassGIS will maintain the data and update as needed.
Updates in March 2006 for the 2005 data included setting Belmont to 'KeySpan' and Millville to 'None' for Natural Gas providers.
In December 2009 ELEC was changed to 'Municipal' for Lakeville, Middleborough and Russell.

Last Updated 12/7/2009