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Source of Map: Water Resources Inventory of CT, Part 5, Lower Housatonic River Basin,
by the U. S. Geological Survey and the CT Department of Environmental Protection, 1974.

COMPARE IT TO LATER DATE USGS SURFICIAL MATERIALS MAP
THIS IS AN EARLY (1974) GENERALIZED MAP OF ESTIMATED AQUIFER BOUNDARIES ONLY

HISTORIC BASE LINE DATA: 1980 HVCEO
REPORT ON NORTH BRANCH POOTATUCK AQUIFER
A small, rural wetland valley, located on a tributary of the Pootatuck in the vicinity of Palestine and Brushy Hill Roads in Newtown, this aquifer of 0.7 square miles is primarily valuable as a local source.

Although shallow, it is composed of coarse-grained sediments. Almost entirely undeveloped woods, wetland and farm land, the primary recharge area is surrounded by farmland, forest and scattered rural homes.

Substantial protection is presently provided by wetland regulations and zoning 2-acre and 3-acre minimum lots.