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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: June 2009
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Monday, June 22, 2009. Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority Sets Meetings June 30/July 1. Water authority lowers amount asked from lake. BY ROBERT J. SMITH. Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. URL: http:/ www.nwanews.com/adg/News/262121/. The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority will ask to pull less water from Bull Shoals Lake to serve 22 water systems in rural Northwest Arkansas. The Corps of Engineers has scheduled two public workshops rega...
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: Frac Mining
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Are we willing to suffer the health consequences when frac mining moves into our area. Do we trust the new mining companies to tell the whole story when it comes to all the hazards to our air and water from these processes? Who will replace our ground water when the aquifers are pumped dry? Who will clean up our streams and rivers when they dump their waste water into our creeks? Labels: Shale Mining/Environmental Hazards. White and N...
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: January 2009
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Friday, January 30, 2009. National Water Quality Inventory Report Now Available On-line. Note: Only 16% of US streams have been assessed and 44% of them are considered impaired. National Water Quality Inventory Report Now Available On-line. This report, available at http:/ www.epa.gov/owow/305b/2004report/. S Web site, known as ATTAINS, at. Http:/ www.epa.gov/waters/ir. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Free Used Tire Disposal at Solid Waste Sites. Arkansas residents...
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: April 2009
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. ADEQ RELEASES LANDFARM STUDY REPORT. ADEQ RELEASES LANDFARM STUDY REPORT. A study conducted by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) found that fluids used in natural gas production have been improperly applied by landfarms operating in the state, thus endangering the environment. ADEQ has taken enforcement actions against all 11 landfarms studied and has sought to revoke permits at two of the sites. Additional enf...
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: AWAG Hires New Staff!
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Friday, August 7, 2009. AWAG Hires New Staff! The Arkansas Watershed Advisory Group assists interested. Citizens and organizations by promoting local voluntary approaches. To watershed management and conservation. I am very pleased that ADEQ is reviving AWAG. AWAG has been a partnership between state and federal water related agencies and budding watershed protection groups. They have been instrumental in helping Friends. Here's the announcement letter. AWAG AD...
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: Planning Session for Central Arkansas Water Forum - Aug 11
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Thursday, August 6, 2009. Planning Session for Central Arkansas Water Forum - Aug 11. Please join us on Tuesday, August 11th at 4pm at Lilly's Dim Sum meeting room in Little Rock. To share your thoughts and advice on how a public forum on Water in Central Arkansas might be able to support your efforts as a leader on water issues as well as help encourage better water policy from state leaders. Planning Session for Central Arkansas Water Forum. We will have refr...
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Events - Cotter & Gassville, Arkansas Chamber of Commerce
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AVCA- Ark Volunteer Coordinators Assoc. Plan to show up and benefit! Please invite colleagues who may be interested. Angie Dalton, program coordinator for Community Connections for Youth and Families Inc., will present a proposed website for the Twin Lakes Chapter. The website would serve as a hub for Mountain Home and the surrounding communities to locate volunteering opportunities . AVCA members would be able to list their organization’s volunteer needs at no charge. It’s once again time to gear ...
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: Toxic Waters - NY Times Series on Failure to Enforce Clean Water Act
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Toxic Waters - NY Times Series on Failure to Enforce Clean Water Act. Here is a link to the home page of a series the New York Times is doing on the lack of enforcement of the Clean Water Act. Http:/ projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters. Included is an interactive that will allow you to quickly find violators in your area. Http:/ projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters/polluters. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: July 2009
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Nutrient Concentrations Remained Stable in Many Streams from 1993 to 2003. The US. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment program conducted. National- and regional-scale trend assessments (1993 to 2003) of nutrient concentrations and loads in streams. For more information on how nutrients vary over time in streams assessed across the Nation, contact:. Upper Mississippi, Ohio, Red, and Great Lakes River Basin.
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers: September 2009
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Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Ozark Aquifer Declining - Conference Sep 17 Springfield Mo. Here's an article on an event this week to examine, in part, the results of a $500,000 study on the decline in the Ozark Aquifer. "Shaping Our Water Future: Working to Ensure Adequate, Quality Water Supplies" is the focus of the Thursday-Friday event at the Doubletree Hotel in Springfield. Here is a link to the article. Http:/ projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters.
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