North Havre residents hear about sewer repair options

Nearly 20 North Havre residents attended a meeting in Havre Wednesday to hear about options in repairing the sewer systems for two districts in the community.

They also heard about what the repairs would do to their rates.

Craig Pozega, the engineer drafting a report for the project, said grant funding is likely to keep the rates from going up much, if at all for one of the districts, but that would require the creation of a sewer district or districts to be eligible for public grants.

The sewer systems now are paid for by the residents of special improvement districts, with the county gove...