​​Productive agricultural land that has given to society for over a century.

​​​Two newer generations of the land owning family are still interested in continuing an agricultural legacy that could span generations and almost a hundred years.  Unfortunately, the majority of the out-of-state family listened to the "siren songs" of the developers, rather than their own in-state family.

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Large wildlife corridor of open ground, farms and ranches that generally run northwest towards Corvallis and north towards Stevensville and into the Bitterroot River Corridor.  This open land continues to the Bitterroot Mountains, linking both sides of the valley.

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Surface irrigation that helps recharge the groundwater aquifer!

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Near and adjacent to several conservation easements and the popular Calf Creek Wildlife Management area.

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ZERO of the developers live in Ravalli County!  They will have no problems leaving Ravalli County Citizens, as well as new buyers alike, with a bill of goods that cannot be delivered on!

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The developers' consultant showed how they could phase subdivisions to "legally"/theoretically build up to 350 houses, using "exempt well" groundwater.  At full build-out, the groundwater draw would be almost half as much as the entire filed surface water rights!  In a closed basin!​

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Willow Creek Drainage was closed in 1994 before the rest of the  Bitterroot River Basin was closed in 1999.

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Numerous irrigation ditches with different diversion points in Willow Creek and many, many, different priority dates and places of use.  Reservoir water also.  Any splitting of this resource will  be to the detriment of the other users. (especially, when new users believe they have full season water, but only have legal rights for half a season in dry years).  The current irrigation system simply can't handle many more splits!

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The more surface water rights users there are, the harder it will be to "get along" resulting in more court costs for costly disputes and watermasters.

​​Very low yielding wells in the area.  Many on cisterns and some dry.  Many producing less than when originally drilled.

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Several springs that have dried up, apparently as groundwater were intercepted.

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As springs dry up so do the gulches that carry surface water into streams and irrigation ditches.

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Arsenic is in the bedrock (and groundwater) because of the geology of the area (Willow Creek Stock Tertiary Granodiorite [basically granite]).

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Subpar Hamilton Heights Road and especially dangerous Eastside Highway intersection.

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