St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group continues efforts

The group working to repair the water system that provides close to half — almost all in some years — of the water flowing through the Milk River met last week to continue the discussion about repairing the 110-year-old irrigation and municipal water system.

A press release about the meeting says The St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group had some good news — its former coordinator, Alan Mikkelsen, has been appointed as Bureau of Reclamation deputy commissioner and is stationed in Washington, D.C.

The group has been working for more than a decade to find ways to rebuild the 29 miles...