British Columbia-based Teck Resources Limited has announced a third water treatment plant is operational to treat selenium in the upper Fording River of Canada. It drains into Montana’s Kootenai River and Lake Koocanusa where Montana recently implemented new and now contested standards for selenium discharges caused by coal mining. Teck has ch...
January Snowpack Reported As Below Normal Levels
Monthly Natural Resources Conservation Service SNOTEL site totals across Montana show January precipitation was below to near normal. As of February 1st, all major basins had below normal snowpack except the Lower Clark Fork, Kootenai and St. Mary’s River basins. In general, west of the continental divide snowpack was better than east of the d...