Recent grants have made building a centralized water system in Clancy more feasible than previously thought. Yet though it voted July 23 to line up an engineering firm, and despite the county sanitarian’s encouragement, the Clancy Water and Sewer Board is hesitant to fully commit to the project without more public input and its president opposes the project outright.
The idea for building the system arose from a study of 89 houses in Clancy that found elevated amounts of nitrates and uranium in some of the town’s drinking water. The study was published in January 2018 and prepared by Montana Tech in conjunction with Jefferson County Sanitarian Megan Bullock.
“Ultimately, the wastewater situation in Clancy needs to be resolved,” Bullock said in a recent email. “This is the root of the problem we are now facing. In the interest of public health we are currently looking at the water supply so people have access to good water, something taken for granted that’s such a basic necessity.”
