Ground-Water and Pond Levels, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1950-1982
Letty DF. 1984. Ground-Water and Pond Levels, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1950-1982. U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 84-719. U. S. Geological Survey. Boston, MA
The sole source of freshwater for Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a water-table aquifer in glacial sand and gravel that is surrounded by seawater(fig. 1). Except for a few areas, the water table is less than 50 feet below land surface. Recharge to the aquifer is entirely through infiltration of precipitation. This report contains water-level measurements from a network of 68 observation wells located throughout Cape Cod (Barnstable County, fig. 2), that have been maintained cooperatively by the Cape Cod Planning and Economic Development Commission, the National Park Service, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The report also contains pond levels for 10 ponds measured by the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod. Levels for the entire period of record are reported through December 1982 for each site. Previously, water-level records for 13 wells were published annually in "Water Resources Data for Massachusetts and Rhode Island" by the U.S. Geological Survey and in Massachusetts Hydrologic-Data Report No. 17 (see table 4 of this report).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Letty, D
- Date of Issue
- 1984
- Publisher
- U. S. Geological Survey
- Units
- CACO
- Keywords
- Aquifers, Geology Hydrology Soils, Groundwater, Hydrology, Natural Res, Ponds