Irrigators elect to hold off on Drop #2 rebuild

Last Tuesday, June 19 close to seventy irrigators, Joint Board of Control and the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation met to come to a solution to a 1.5 million dollar issue concerning the Drop 2 in the Milk River Project . At the end of the two and a half hour meeting the Joint Board opted to postpone any fixes to the cement structure that has been the main source of water for irrigators and water users for nearly a century until the Board's next meeting in August.

"Were not doing the contract that was proposed for the $2.68 million," Joint Board of Control member Wade Jones...