EPA lifts Rocky Boy boil order

Eighteen days after 1,500 to 2,000 Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation residents had been put on a water boil alert due to multiple water main breaks in the reservation’s water system, the Environmental Protection Agency has lifted that order.

Dustin White, interim director of Tribal Water Resources for the Chippewa Cree Tribe, confirmed this morning that previously affected residents can go back to normal water usage. People can drink the water without having to boil it, he said.

The EPA press release says that the samples collected from Dec. 27 to 29, Jan. 3 and 4 have come back as safe...