Potential Plumes

This datalayer was developed by the Cape Cod Commission, a regional regulatory land use planning agency and is charged with providing digital cartographic data, as needed, for the express purpose of map production and/or datalayer analysis. These technical services are made possible by the Cape Cod Environmental Protection Fund which generates revenue through state and federal grant applications and through local assessment fees. This data layer intends to inventory, permit cartographic production of, and allow for geographic analysis of, suspected and or potential groundwater pollution plumes throughout Barnstable County (Cape Cod). This geographically-referenced data layer stores suspected and/or potential groundwater pollution plumes originating from landfills within Barnstable County (Cape Cod), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States of America. The area-specific data are colloquially known as "plumes" which are stored in their native form within a geographic information system (GIS) as "polygons." The polygons contain GIS- and user-defined attributes used to store the known existing conditions of the plumes.