This photo released by the Bureau of Reclamation Missouri Basin Region, Montana Area Office, shows a breach in the St. Mary Canal siphon in Babb, Montana, Monday, June 17, 2024. The siphon is part of a system that carries water from a river on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to another river that provides irrigation water to farmers and drinking water to 14,000 residents in northern Montana. No injuries or deaths have been reported since the century-old pipes broke open Mon…
June 19, 2024
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June 19, 2024 9:10 a.m.
Canal pipe breaks, threatening a northern Montana irrigation project and drinking water
The break comes a month before a $100 million replacement project on the headgates was expected to begin and during the peak irrigation season.