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Flathead Lake users need predictability in water level

by Greg Barkus
| June 26, 2025 12:00 AM

Much has been written and said about the Energy Keeper’s management of the water in Flathead Lake during the last three years of their controlling the outflow of the lake. 

While there are many factors in the management of the dam, it is abundantly clear that for 84 years the Montana Power Company and its successor, PPL, have successfully managed the summer flows out of the lake under a memorandum of understanding in a way that provided predictable and manageable levels of water thru periods of drought and floods.  

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