BUTTE — BUTTE - Montana Resources is giving away free bottled water Thursday in response to potential contamination from mill processed water getting into Butte’s drinking water and officials here at the mining company say this is being done out of an over abundance of caution.

“We can’t tell you any water ever left the mine, we don’t have any evidence of that, but we can’t tell you it didn’t. So, out of an abundance of caution, you have to assume it did,” said MR VP of Environmental Affairs Mark Thompson.

The city issued an order Wednesday afternoon to citizens living south of Front Street to not drink, shower, wash dishes or consume tap water until the city’s municipal water can be tested.

“It’s better to overreact to something than put any of our public in danger, so that’s the cours

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