Group seeks amendment to Water Rights Protection Act
A view of Skeeko Bay and Flathead Lake from Wild Horse Island State Park on Thursday, Sept. 19. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
With support from Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, a Lake County nonprofit recently submitted a letter to state leaders requesting an amendment to the draft of the Montana Water Rights Protection Act that would provide the Tribes with authorization to use a portion of their Trust Fund to improve the treatment of wastewater throughout the reservation.
The letter was signed by Kate Sheridan, Executive Director of the Flathead Lakers, a nonprofit focused on clean water and healthy ecosystems in the Flathead watershed...
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