Officials: City could have joined water project for $20,000

Officials: City could have joined water project for $20,000

For a fee of $20,000, the city of Havre could have gotten in on the ground floor of a water project that will eventually supply a good chunk of north-central Montana with fresh, clean water, and perhaps eliminate concerns about future water supplies.

Havre in 1998 notified the committee planning the Rocky Boy's-North Central Regional Water System that it would not join the system, choosing to expand and upgrade its own water treatment plant instead. The city took out an $8.4 million loan from the state to upgrade the plant.

Dave Peter...