Article: United States: Tigard expands underground network of water banks.

Elizabeth Price Park opened this summer with the usual assortment of picnic tables, play equipment and wildflowers. But the biggest boon to the city may be what's underneath: an aquifer that stores 150 million to 200 million gallons of water and is saving money for ratepayers.

Tigard's growing Aquifer Storage and Recovery system is one of several moves that is prompting it to pull out of the Joint Water Commission, a five-agency body that shares water from Henry Hagg Lake and the Barney Reservoir. Tigard gets about 10 percent of its water supply from the commission.

With 660,000 people forecast to join Washington County over the next 50 years, concerns ...

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