REMINDER: This listing is a free service of ArkansasLandCAN. Two directors are appointed by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission and three are elected by resident landowners.Ĭontact Newton County Conservation District Each district is governed by a board of five directors who serve without pay. The idea behind their formation is to keep decision making on soil and water conservation matters at the local level.
197 of the Arkansas General Assembly of 1937 the Nation's first conservation district law.Ĭonservation districts are local governments at work and their specific responsibility is management of our soil and water resources. They are a creation of popular vote of resident landowners for the purpose of conserving our land and water resources as authorized by Act No. "Our customers have been wonderful about all of this," Mc-Cord said.Conservation districts are political subdivisions of the State of Arkansas. Noble McCord, operations manager for the Fulton County Water Association that serves1,781 people, took water samples to a Health Department office on Monday and he's hoping they'll be tested in Little Rock today or Wednesday. "I'm hoping in two more days we'll be able to be back to normal water levels again." "We're asking people to conserve," Bushee said. Two car washes in town have cooperated with the city's request not to operate. The Health Department lifted the order on Saturday, but there's been a strain on the water system since then. 29 for customers of Marshall's water system. In Searcy County, the Health Department issued a boil order on Jan. Francis River Regional Water District, said a Paragould laboratory conducted tests on Saturday to prove the system's water is safe to drink. In Clay County, Randy McMillin, water superintendent for Greenway and the St. They probably continued to bathe in the system's water that's pumped from two wells, he said. Royce said most of the 1,528 people who sip from his system likely switched to bottled water for drinking and cooking. The largest is the East Newton County Water Association that hopes to get water that doesn't require boiling to customers later this week, said Carl Royce, the association's water superintendent. Seven Newton County water systems remained under boil orders on Monday. "It's the equivalent of drinking water from a lake if you are swimming. "Statistically, the chances of the water being compromised seriously enough to make you sick are small," Hart said. The likelihood of illness is low, Hart said. The risk of illness is the greatest for the old, young and those with compromised immune systems. Hart said there are no reports of people getting sick because they ignored a boil order and drank water. A few of the orders came from broken pipes. Snapped powerlines caused a number of water pumps to stop working and the water pressure to drop in many systems, forcing the boil orders. The number of boil orders jumped after heavy ice coated power lines and limbs across northern Arkansas in an ice storm that began Jan. A complete list of individual water systems under the boil order is available online at under "current boil order status." The 27 systems serve 20,097 people in Baxter, Carroll, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Izard, Lawrence, Marion, Newton, Randolph, Searcy, Sharp and Stone counties. Robert Hart, director of the department's engineering section, said the boil orders could remain in effect for several more days. LITTLE ROCK - Twenty-seven public drinking water systems in north Arkansas remain under precautionary boil orders associated with the recent ice storm, the state Department of Health said Monday.