Articles with the Tag: Flathead Joint Board of Control
BOZEMAN — Adjudication of water claims in the Flathead Basin will not take place until after January 2017, per a July 27 order issued by Chief Water Judge Russ McElyea, though the state of Montana will begin examining some claims that have been filed in two local basins. The judge issued the stay to...
News from the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project, forwarded by the Flathead Joint Board of Control The following is a brief summary of water availability for the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project and outlook per geographic area. Camas: Current storage is 59 percent of capacity. It is ex...
ST. IGNATIUS — Irrigation commissioners for the Flathead Joint Board of Control refused to increase assessments on their constituents last week, despite a request from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to do so. It is unclear what the ramifications of not instating the 29 percent operations and maintenan...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Indian Irrigation Project began implementing water shut offs last week and conditions are only expected to get worse in the coming months, according to a report issued by Bureau of Indian Affairs Project Manager Pete Plant. “FIIP expects the lack of precipitat...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigation commissioners said last week that a lack of drought management plan and adequate staffing at the Bureau of Indian Affairs is exacerbating water delivery to Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators. According to commissioners, individual ditchriders appear to be c...
POLSON — In a conference hearing on Tuesday, attorneys for the Flathead Joint Board of Control told Lake County District Court Judge James Manley that the board intends to file for an injunction to halt ongoing implementation of parts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact passed earlier...
HELENA – The fired up rhetoric that reached a din during the Montana Legislature has died down somewhat since the passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Compact, but state and tribal workers who did the behind-the-scenes grunt work for the document are now facing another monumental task:...
A federal district judge has dismissed a case filed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in 2014, saying that the recent passage of a water agreement by the state government likely makes issues raised in the court moot. The Tribes filed suit in March 2014 against 14 defendants that include...
ST. IGNATIUS – After hearing complaints from Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators about delivery problems and concerns about possible future increases in operations and maintenance assessment, Flathead Joint Board of Control irrigation commissioners said May 13 that one of their main objective...
ST. IGNATIUS – After hearing complaints from Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators about delivery problems and concerns about possible future increases in operations and maintenance assessment, Flathead Joint Board of Control irrigation commissioners said May 13 that one of their main objective...
