Figure 1. Air photo of Wells Harbor in the Webhannet River estuary, the tidal inlet with two stone jetties, and Wells and Drakes Island Beaches. Lower Landing Road crosses the salt marsh to development on dredged sand placed on the marsh in the 1960s. Between the salt marsh of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and Wells Beach are houses built on sand dunes of the barrier spit. Photo taken near low tide on July 16, 1995.

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