BILLINGS- The Crazy Mountain Ranch is pushing back against state regulators who say the property violated a court order tied to watering its private golf course in the Crazy Mountains.
The Crazy Mountain Ranch, filed a motion in October asking a Park County court to find the ranch not in violation of a consent decree and to impose $8,000 in penalties, doing so after officials say, receiving a letter from the DNRC.
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The DNRC alleges the ranch used water that wasn’t legally authorized for sale under the Montana Water Use Act.
The water came from the city of Boulder, which sold roughly 100,000 gallons to the ranch in mid-August, using a well, later determined not to be covered by municipal water rights.
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