An Arkansas watershed will receive federal funding this year for water quality initiatives, according to an announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The Buffalo Slough-Cache River watershed in Greene and Lawrence counties will join three other state watersheds already in the National Water Quality Initiative -- Cousart Bayou-Little Cypress Bayou, Upper Deep Bayou and Lower Deep Bayou. It's one of 30 new watersheds added to the initiatives nationwide.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service will spend $30 million in the 201 watersheds in the 7-year-old program.
Arkansas will receive $1.4 million of those funds, but how much each watershed will get has not been decided, according to Natural Resources Conservation Service staff members in Little Rock.
Metro on 02/11/2018