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Troy officials asked to support new selenium standards

by WILL LANGHORNE
The Western News | December 16, 2020 10:05 AM

In hopes of protecting the water quality and aquatic life of Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River, state environmental regulators have approved new standards for levels of a heavy metal that has leached into the bodies of water from upstream Canadian mines.

The Montana Board of Environmental Review voted in favor of tightening accepted concentrations of selenium for the river and reservoir during a Dec...

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