St. Mary group considers working piece-meal on projects

Full funding to rehabilitate structure unlikely at this point

After hearing about ways $10 million in bonding from the state could be accessed, the group working to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year discussed working on sections of the project instead of trying to push for the full $153 million authorized for it.

"We have tried the whole rehabilitation, and that hasn't gotten us very far, " Larry Mires, executive director for the St. Mary Working Group said in Havre Tuesday during the group's monthly meeting.

The group was formed to coordinate...