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Archive Home > 2011 > May > 22 > Arid Prineville finds elusive water

Arid Prineville finds elusive water

By Erik Hidle / The Bulletin
May 22, 2011

Finding water in the Crooked River caldera is now less of a gamble and more of a science.

After decades of drilling unpro-ductive wells, the city of Prineville inadvertently tapped into a fluvial channel, a deep underground stream that once may have served as the path of the Crooked River. That....

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