Study on St. Mary diversion work progressing

A U. S. Bureau of Reclamations official said work to replace the diversion dam on the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year is progressing, although not at the rate at which he had hoped last year.

Kelly Titensor said in June 2010 that the bureau had hoped to have studies and procedures to meet National Environmental Policy Act requirements in place by September 2011, to allow construction on replacing the dam that diverts water to the Milk to start in 2012.

"That has been put indefinitely on hold, " he said during a St. Mary Working Group meeting Tuesday in Hav...