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Friday's featured photo, and billions of other clues to the catastrophe that delivers Spokane's drinking water

Friday's featured photo, and billions of other clues to the catastrophe that delivers Spokane's drinking water

October 13, 2023

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Fist of basalt atop ancient cobbles delivered to Spokane by the Ice Floods, roughly 17,000 years ago

One of the highlighted paragraphs in my pile of research on the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer is in a thick 2005 report by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It’s a dry observation about water—more specifically about the immense pile of…

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