Water: New England Numbers

10
miles: width of Lake Champlain between Burlington, VT, and Port Douglas, NY, its widest point

1,300
lakes and ponds in New Hampshire

6,000
lakes and ponds in Maine

4
feet: Cape Cod National Seashore land lost each year to erosion

316
feet: maximum depth of Maine’s Sebago Lake, New England’s deepest

6.8
quadrillion gallons: estimated amount of water in Lake Champlain

10
million visitors to Providence’s WaterFire since it began in 1994

1.5
million gallons: water circulated daily through Water Country in Portsmouth, NH

355
years: age of Connecticut’s Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferry, the country’s oldest continuously operating ferry service

34
pounds: weight of New England record lake trout, caught in 1981 from Lake Willoughby, VT

1
number of people who have swum the entire 120-mile length of Lake Champlain

Ian Aldrich

Ian Aldrich is the executive editor at Yankee, where he has worked for more for two decades. As the magazine’s staff feature writer, he writes stories that delve deep into issues facing communities throughout New England. In 2019 he received gold in the reporting category at the annual City-Regional Magazine conference for his story on New England’s opioid crisis. Ian’s work has been recognized by both the Best American Sports and Best American Travel Writing anthologies. He lives with his family in Dublin, New Hampshire.

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