Along Canyon Ferry Road just south of the Helena Valley Reservoir sits The Prestige at Red Fox Meadows, a sprawling East Helena subdivision of nearly 30 homes that began welcoming residents last year.
Everything seemed fine until October, when homeowners received a letter informing them their housing development would be denied its expected water rights and that every home in the subdivision would need to find a new water source, likely at considerable cost.
“Some of us just bought these homes,” said Prestige resident Jen Miller, a nursing instructor and mother of five who moved into her new home in June. “If we’d known this was a problem, a lot of us would not have bought.”
