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  • The Issues
    • Sand and Gravel Mining
    • Deforestation
    • Clear Cutting
    • Water Quality
    • Solar Energy
    • Battery Storage
  • Who is Affected
    • Indigenous People
    • Barnstable
    • Carver
    • Halifax
    • Plymouth
    • Plympton
    • Wareham
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  • The Issues
    • Sand and Gravel Mining
    • Deforestation
    • Clear Cutting
    • Water Quality
    • Solar Energy
    • Battery Storage
  • Who is Affected
    • Indigenous People
    • Barnstable
    • Carver
    • Halifax
    • Plymouth
    • Plympton
    • Wareham
  • How to Help
    • Donate
    • Take Action
    • Join Save the Pine Barrens
  • Calendar
  • Blog
  • About Us
  • More
    • Contact
    • Resources
    • In the Press
  • The Issues
    • Sand and Gravel Mining
    • Deforestation
    • Clear Cutting
    • Water Quality
    • Solar Energy
    • Battery Storage
  • Who is Affected
    • Indigenous People
    • Barnstable
    • Carver
    • Halifax
    • Plymouth
    • Plympton
    • Wareham
  • How to Help
    • Donate
    • Take Action
    • Join Save the Pine Barrens
  • Calendar
  • Blog
  • About Us
  • More
    • Contact
    • Resources
    • In the Press

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Community Land & Water Coalition

We are a statewide network of groups and individuals taking action to protect our land and water to ensure a livable future foo all life on Earth. That means clean water, healthy ecosystem and forests that support the world-class biodiversity at our doorsteps. Massachusetts has one of the most unique forested ecosystems here at home and is the 8th most forested state in the United States.

In Southeastern Massachusetts our work concentrates on protecting our drinking water: the Plymouth Carver Sole Source Aquifer. Forests, sand and gravel protect and filter the aquifer. Deforestation caused by sand and gravel mining and industrial ground mounted solar is increasing at an alarming rate!

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Sand/Gravel

Thousands of years ago, the last of the glaciers retreated at the end of the Ice Age, leaving behind vast deposits of clean, well-sorted silica sand and gravel over the region. Today, southeastern Massachusetts is characterized by a unique combination of sandy soils, rare Pine Barrens forests, wetlands, and coastal habitats.

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Forests

The Pine Barrens act as a natural filter for groundwater, which supplies drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in the region. Protecting the Pine Barrens helps to maintain water quality and quantity, and ensure a clean drinking water source for residents for generations to come.

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Drinking Water

The Plymouth-Carver Sole-Source Aquifer was formed over thousands of years as rainwater and snowmelt seeped into the ground and slowly filtered through layers of sand, and gravel, eventually accumulating in an underground aquifer.

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