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Legislature doesn't fund dam repairs at Beaver Creek

The Montana Legislature has turned down a request for money to repair the lower Beaver Creek Dam.

A grant application from the Hill County Commission that sought $400,000 for repairs failed to get the necessary support this session, Commissioner Pat Conway said Monday.

Bear Paw Development Corp. submitted the grant application to the state Department Natural Resources and Conservation in May after engineers found several areas of the dam that need to be upgraded or repaired, Conway said.

The department then ranked the project against similar ones and submitted its ranking to the Legislature, C...

 

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