posted 9 years ago
There is ditch water at the very top of the property that I do not have rights to. However, the water in question that feeds the ponds and which I would use lower down on the property is a high water table that has otherwise not been used by the previous owner. The ponds are only there because the previous land owner put a french drain in to keep his building site from flooding, otherwise the water just seeps back into the mountain side and is not used for anything. The rights to the water are just owned by Montana, basically like using a swale system to catch precipitation runoff. The water would stay on my property longer, but wouldn't go anywhere different.