Daily Archives: September 13, 2024

Engineers, Consolidation, Policies Top Heights Water District Agenda

The Board for the County Water District in the Heights dealt with numerous issues dealing with policies and operations at a business work session on September 4.

The water district needs a plan to deal with the district- wide maintenance of the system, which means having a schedule to replace aging pipeline and other equipment. They hope to engage ECHOLOGICS technology to evaluate the status of the system, but ECHOLOGICS needs data to do so. That data will come from a GIS (Geographic Information System) study, from which to develop maps and locations, etc.

The district has a GIS study which is almost complete, but they need to have it completed. GIS data includes such information as the kind of pipe, installation date, material, diameter, status, spacing, historical failure, date abandoned, etc.

The Board discussed moving forward to complete the read more

Let’s Call it for What it is, Straight-Up Propaganda and Fake News

Folks I want to address a supposed “newspaper” and self-described news media entity called the Montana Independent. This “newspaper” is being sent to more than 150,000 Montanans from an out-of-state organization called the American Independent that has ties to a … read more