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David Boutt Seeks Massachusetts Citizen Scientists to Help Model Rising Groundwater

A screenshot of a CBS Boston video showing a backyard with an above ground pool being inundated with floodwater

Massachusetts is coming off one of the wettest years on record and one of the wettest winters on record, and we are now in one of the wettest Marches to date. It's no secret that our seas are rising and as of late, so are our rivers. One UMass Amherst professor is sounding a new alarm – a rising water table.