Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...
In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks with two Oregon researchers who published a study about a massive underground aquifer below the Central Cascade Mountains east ...
That allowed them to map the volume of the aquifer. Previous estimates of water availability in the Cascades took the springs at face value, measuring river and stream discharge. Instead ...
Urness: When I think about our area being so defined by rivers, doesn't this aquifer play a big role in what makes the Willamette Valley and western Oregon what it is? Grant: It's a big piece of ...