Regional water system, St. Mary Diversion update given to City Council

Officials gave Havre City Council an update Tuesday on what is happening with the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Water System Project and on the status of the St. Mary Diversion upgrade.

The regional water system came out of the Rocky Boy Water Compact approved in the 1990s. In 2002, Congress authorized building a water treatment plant at Tiber Reservoir and piping water to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation as the core portion of the project, along with transporting treated water to communities off the reservation.

The noncore project now extends from Havre to the Rocky Mountain Front and sout...