Senate Oks local water projects funding

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]

Some major funding for water projects in north-central Montana passed the Senate Thursday and now needs to be reconciled with a House bill in a conference committee. Montana's Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced in a joint release that the Senate passed the Water and Energy Appropriations Act, which includes more than $77 million for Montana including money for the Fort Peck-Dry Prairie Rural Water System, the Rocky Boy-North Central Montana Regional Water System and the reha...