PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon researchers have uncovered a water reservoir beneath the Cascades that is estimated to be three times the capacity of Lake Mead. University of Oregon revealed its ...

Scientists studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range found that an aquifer has nearly three times as much water as ...

The new law, finalized on Jan. 4, follows reporting from Oregon Public Broadcasting ... It is a step toward draining the reservoirs behind the dams and bringing water levels closer to those ...

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” Leif Karlstrom, the University of Oregon earth scientist who led the study, said in a ...

They’re concerned about the possibility of the next wildfire and are pleading with local leaders to increase water levels at Lake Hodges, hoping it will reduce dry brush and fire risk in the area.

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. A hidden reservoir of ...

While the Oregon Cascades are buried ... nearly three times the capacity of Lake Mead, a reservoir that covers parts of Nevada and Arizona. It also supplied water to those two states and California.

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” said Leif Karlstrom of the University of Oregon, who led the study, in a university ...

The previously unmapped aquifer is estimated to be more than three times the size of the Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada. Evidence of water beneath the Cascades in Central Oregon has long been as ...