We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
New siphons are installed in the St. Mary Siphon in the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works outside of Babb in June of 2025. That work was completed and water again started flowing through the system in July of 2026. Work is nearing completion on the Halls Coulee siphon and work on the diversion dam is progressing.
The St. Mary Working Group met in Havre in March, discussing work on repairs to catastrophic failure in 2024 to the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River, work to rehabilitate the diversion dam that shunts water from the St. Mary River through 29 miles of canals, siphons and drop structures, and the need to push through the water compact for the Fort Belknap Indian Community, already approved by the state of Montana, that includes significant funding to repair and upgrade the system.
Work proceeding on siphons, diversion dam
Archie Lind of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which o...
