Christmas Valley Oregon is in a dry part of the state but is able to grow bounty crops of hay and alfalfa because of irrigation from very deep wells. The area was once an ancient lake but filled in and covered with ash from nearby volcanic Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake).
I was recently told that the pumps often get plugged with tiny blind fish.
Its amazing to think what is below our feet that “doesnt belong there”.
Theres a deep well driller around here that hasnt told me of fish but he regularly finds cherry pits a few hundred feet into the karst.
Some farmers have “bottomless holes” and just chuck things in which are carried in underground rivers to points miles away and hundreds of feet down.
There isnt a known species of cave fish here but there almost has to be a subterranean lake somewhere around here with a Lake Michigan population lost to the caves.
It’s not really the fish, but their seeing eye dogs.