Report on Clancy drinking water released

Drinking water sampled from privately owned wells in Clancy show elevated levels of both nitrates and uranium, a newly released report shows.

Montana Tech sampled wells in collaboration with Jefferson County and the Clancy Water and Sewer District and found both nitrates and uranium levels in excess of Environmental Protection Agency safe drinking water standards.

Eighteen percent of the wells sampled were above the standard for nitrates and 37 percent exceeded uranium standards, says a report in the Clancy Water & Sewer District newsletter.