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The Sagamore Lens
The towns of Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Mashpee, Barnstable, and Yarmouth are served by the Sagamore Lens.  This lens is 165 square miles with a maximum elevation of 70 feet.  The Sagamore Lens is the largest of the Cape Cod groundwater lenses.

In the off-season, an average of 13 million gallons/day are withdrawn from the lens.  In the summer season, the water volume withdrawn rises to an average of 25 million gallons/day.

Source: Cape Cod - A Community Connected By Water (1999)
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Penn State University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Rhode Island, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science are collaborating with the U.S. EPA
and private and public stakeholders of the mid- and upper-Atlantic region. Support for CARA is provided by the Global Change Research Program,
Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Cooperative Agreement R-83053301).

Last updated:  Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:17 PM