Assessment of alternatives / emergency water supply to Provincetown, Massachusetts from Cape Cod National Seashore
National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office. 1979. Assessment of alternatives / emergency water supply to Provincetown, Massachusetts from Cape Cod National Seashore. National Park Service. Boston, Massachusetts
On October 6, 1978, the Town of Provincetown, Massachusetts formally requested, for the second consecutive year, permission from the National Park Service to withdraw water from within Cape Cod National Seashore from April through November of 1979. This request was made because the restoration of the Town's South Hollow wellfield, which is presently shut down because of the existence of gasoline in the immediate vicinity of the wellfield, cannot be completed until after the start of the 1979 summer tourist season. Without the South Hollow wellfield, the Town could face the prospect of meeting a 2.0 million gallons per day (mgd) maximum day demand with a maximum supply of only 1.3 mgd available from the Knowle's Crossing wellfield and from the temporary well at the North Truro Air Force Station. This Assessment of Alternatives will consider Provincetown' s current request to withdraw water from within the National Seashore in the face of a continuing water supply emergency. It will evaluate the Park Service's alternatives in responding to this request in light of environmental, park management, socioeconomic and legal concerns.