The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

I think it points to one of the unique things about the Central Oregon Cascades, which is its geologic ... call the critical zone. It’s this near-surface layer where atmospheric processes ...

Karlstrom — along with researchers from Oregon State University, Duke and the U.S. Forest Service — are trying to map out how much water is stored beneath the volcanic rocks of the Cascades.

University of Oregon scientists and partners published a study on Jan. 13; the study said they found an aquifer running ...

Evidence of water beneath the Cascades in Central ... Range come together near the Santiam Pass. What they found was an enormous aquifer beneath the central Oregon Cascades — containing more ...