Unique Local Geology Helps the City of Prineville Sustain a Resilient Water Source

An Oregon city expanded its water system without adding capacity to its treatment plant. Solutions include an aquifer storage and recovery system and water loss control.

Unique Local Geology Helps the City of Prineville Sustain a Resilient Water Source

This view of Prineville from the rim rock above the city overlooks a golf course.

A small city in the high desert of central Oregon takes advantage of an unusual geological feature to make its water supply more resilient.

Prineville, a city of 11,000 along the Crooked River, uses a confined aquifer deep underground that was an ancestral channel of the...

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