HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Hundreds of people on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation are still without safe drinking water two weeks after flooding broke the reservation's water lines, tore up roads and forced dozens of evacuations.
The flooding hit the reservation in mid-June after more than 5 inches of rain soaked the ground already saturated by an unusually wet spring.
Neil Rosette, the Chippewa Cree executive administrative officer, says the most urgent situation is the lack of drinking water.
Families can pick up two cases of bottled water a day and tribal leaders were delivering water to those who unable to leave their homes.
Rosette says most of the water lines have been fixed, but the reservation's tanks have not refilled and the system has not recharged as fast as it should.
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