More cash proposed for rural water project

A project that will provide treated drinking water for Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and a large chunk of north-central Montana has more money proposed for its completion.

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester announced he secured $4.8 million in an appropriations bill for the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System, which will treat water from Lake Elwell at Tiber Reservoir south of Chester. The treated water will be transported to Rocky Boy and regions off the reservation from Loma to Havre and the North Havre Water District in northern Hill County and west to the Rocky Mountain Front, inclu...