Articles with the Tag: Flathead Indian Irrigation Project
ST. IGNATIUS – More than a year after reforming under new bylaws, the Flathead Joint Board of Control has appointed a new committee to explore whether revisions are necessary, particularly in regards to how the three individual member irrigation districts might join or withdraw from the board. ...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigators who use the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project to water their crops will likely see a significant increase in fees on their next assessment bills, as project managers try to raise funds to tackle millions of dollars of improvements needed to keep the decades old, dilapidating ...
ST. IGNATIUS – If you see neon-clad, hard-hat wearing workers toiling away along the roadside in Lake County, they might not be road workers. The Flathead Indian Irrigation Project recently tightened its safety regulations after a severe injury to one of its workers. “He was sta...
ST. IGNATIUS — Governor Steve Bullock signed a bill March 24 that gives final state approval for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact, but the battle over the document continued as a handful of Flathead Joint Board of Control Irrigation Commissioners filed a lawsuit saying the meth...
The Water Compact and methamphetamine abuse cropped up many times at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes quarterly meeting on April 3. CSKT attorney Rhonda Swaney updated the membership on the progress of the Water Compact. It has passed through the Montana Senate and is now in the Montana House o...
RONAN — The water slipping through the gates of a dilapidated, decades old, rickety irrigation headwork on the Pablo Feeder Canal on North Crow Creek drifts by with a quiet gurgle, and to the naked eye it might be hard to distinguish the infinitesimal differences in day-to-day water level, but to the h...
The irrigation district candidates for Jocko, Flathead and Mission Irrigation Districts were sent questionnaires, asking them to respond to two questions: • What do you believe is the most important irrigation-related issue and what are your ideas for resolving that issue? • What ...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control has released a privately-commissioned study that predicts irrigators will receive substantially less water under the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact than is necessary to sustain agriculture for farms on the project, but g...
HELENA – Supporters and dissenters testified in Helena March 6 about a bill that would allocate $5 million for the public defender’s office to defend state-based water rights if the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact does not pass during the legislative session. The bi...
ST. IGNATIUS – After the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact passed through the Montana Senate last week, lobbyists for the Flathead Joint Board of Control were optimistic that they could keep the bill from passing in the House of Representatives. The board, which represents ...
