$8 million project underway to repair St. Mary Canal collapse

If ever there was a summer when hundreds of Montana’s Hi-Line farmers could use rain, it’s this one.

An $8 million infrastructure failure on the St. Mary Canal last month will restrict approximately 800 irrigators who work about 150,000 acres from Havre to Glasgow to about half the water they normally use during a season.

New York Times – The St Mary Canal That Opened the Montana Prairie May Soon Dry Up An early 20th-century federal water project irrigated the prairie to create farms and towns in eastern Montana. But it needs a $200 million overhaul.