The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality says it won’t enforce an administrative order sent to the city of Kensett regarding the city’s sewer system.
The state agency told Mayor Max McDonald in a letter this month that because of the city’s efforts to rehabilitate its sewer system, the order sent to the city in August would not be implemented.
The letter says the state DEQ expects the city’s efforts will continue and that the agency still could enforce the order at a later date.
Steve Brown, the superintendent of Kensett Water and Sewer, tells the Searcy Daily Citizen that a shunt installed in the 1990s that connected a manhole to a nearby creek, thus allowing overflow to go into the creek, had been removed after a DEQ request.
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