BOR: Fresno, Nelson reservoirs near lowest levels for season

Havre Daily News staff

With levels at Fresno and Nelson reservoirs at their lowest levels in years, the federal agency that administers the irrigation reservoirs said the water should start rising soon.

The Bureau of Reclamation, which runs the reservoirs as part of the Milk River Project created at the start of the last century to provide irrigation water — they also provide municipal water to cities on the Milk River — said irrigation operations are starting to ramp down, about a month sooner than normal.

BOR said in a release Tuesday that Fresno is at 30 feet below its full storag...