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water-level indicator of the dam gatehouse on Edward MacDowell Lake at Peterborough in southwestern New Hampshire

The white sign shows the highest-ever water level. It was 949.8 feet, occurring in April 1987. At that point this flood-control reservoir was withholding 4.2 billion gallons of water from flowing down Nubanusit Brook.

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