St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group Coordinator Dave Peterson provided an update about ongoing projects at the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works to Hill County officials in a presentation Wednesday, where he discussed funding, legislative developments and recent progress. Read the entire article HERE

The St. Mary’s Rehabilitation Working Group will be providing a public update on Monday, Nov. 20. They will be speaking to the Valley County Commissioners at 2 p.m., in the Board of County Commissioners located inside of the Glasgow Civic Center. Read the entire article HERE

(Havre) – With the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group giving fall updates New Media Broadcasters Sat down with their coordinator Dave Peterson to ask where St. Mary received their funding for their projects from. “The Safety Dams Project funding for this is coming from the Bureau of Reclamation and also the water users along the…

(Havre) – With the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group giving fall updates New Media Broadcasters Sat down with their coordinator Dave Peterson to ask what the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group is. “Well, the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group is a group that was put together in the early 2000’s to help rehabilitate the St.…

After a regular meeting Wednesday, members of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group took a tour of Fresno Dam and the construction efforts aimed at shoring up the structure. Built in 1939 on the Milk River in north-central Montana, the 84-year-old embankment dam has experienced 7 to 10 feet of settlement since construction and the…

An agreement to settle water rights issues and provide water to Fort Belknap Indian Community — and to people all along the Milk River — decades in the making took a major step forward this week when the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act was heard in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.…

FT. BELKNAP – For over 100 years, the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre people have been fighting for tribal water rights, not just on their own reservation but for the entire nation. In 1908, Winters v. United States Supreme Court case found that when tribes are allotted a piece of land, they should be issued water…

The Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of north-central Montana are closing in on a bipartisan deal to settle their water rights in Congress. The more than $1 billion policy comes after decades of negotiation and would close out a century of tribal water disputes in the state. Fort Belknap President Jeffrey Stiffarm told a committee…

The beleaguered St. Mary’s-Milk River Irrigation Project would get a $53 million injection from Montana’s $2.5 billion budget surplus, under a proposal that won bipartisan support in a budget committee Tuesday. The recommended change to House Bill 6 secured a 5-1 vote from the appropriations subcommittee focused on infrastructure. It is nonbinding and will need…

By Caven Wade | UM Legislative News Service, University of Montana School of Journalism In the last 11 years, the city of Havre has had 255 water main breaks. The city’s public works director, Dave Pederson, says 46 of those breaks happened in the last two years alone. “During main breaks, large sections of the…