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  • Impact and cost of St. Mary Diversion failure still being assessed

    Rachel Jamieson, Havre Daily News|May 27, 2020

    As Milk River water users have been warning for decades will happen, the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water in the river has suffered a catastrophic failure. A concrete drop structure on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance work washed out and collapsed Sunday. St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group Co-Chair and Montana State University Phillips County Extension Agent Marko Manoukian said Drop 5, which is one of five drops on the St. Mary's project up near Babb and is the last...

  • Lawsuit still threatening St. Mary Diversion

    Rachel Jamieson, Havre Daily News|Jan 29, 2020

    The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is still ready to shut off a primary source of water in the Milk River. Jeff Baumberger of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees operations of the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works, said Wednesday during a meeting of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group that the alliance sent another notice of intent to sue for bull trout passage in the diversion. The diversion and conveyance, completed more than a century ago to provide water for irrigation in the Milk River Valley, is in an area with bull...

  • Big Sandy Meats becoming Hi-Line Packing in Malta

    Rachel Jamieson, Havre Daily News|Oct 23, 2019

    Big Sandy Meats is moving to Malta and is expected to open in mid-November, but renamed to Hi-Line Packing. Big Sandy Meats owner Jim Dumas said he is moving into a meat processing plant in Malta in a building which has been there since 1917 and started operating as a meat packing plant in 1974. He said he has been trying to acquire it for the past five years. “Why now? Because I have been trying to buy this plant for some time now, so the timing is relating when I could get a hold of this plant. The decision to move was a lot of things,” he...