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Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
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Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
Wachusett Dam
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Wachusett Dam
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Wachusett Dam
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Wachusett Dam, Clinton, MA 01510, USA

The Wachusett Reservoir is the second largest body of water in the state of Massachusetts. It is located in central Massachusetts, northeast of Worcester. It is part of the water supply system for metropolitan Boston maintained by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority . It has an aggregate capacity of 65 billion US gallons and an area of almost 7 square miles . Water from the Wachusett flows to the covered Norumbega Storage Facility via the Cosgrove Tunnel and the MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel. The reservoir has a maximum depth of 120 feet and a mean depth of 48 feet . The reservoir serves as both an intermediate storage reservoir for water from the Quabbin Reservoir as well as a water source itself as it is also fed by its own watershed. The reservoir is fed by the Quinapoxet, and Stillwater rivers, along with the Quabbin Aqueduct, which carries water from the Quabbin Reservoir. It is part of the Nashua River Watershed and is the headwaters of the Nashua River. Because it is an intermediate storage reservoir, its water levels are kept relatively constant while the Quabbin Reservoir fluctuates based on precipitation and demand. At times when the Wachusett Reservoir becomes high due to its own watershed producing a large amount of runoff such as during snow melting, the flow from the Quabbin is shut off and water from the Ware River flows backwards down the Quabbin Aqueduct into the Quabbin Reservoir for storage.
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