Water Samples Taken From Stream Near Sewer System

June 10, 2015 at 5:00 a.m.

by Lynn Kutter ENTERPRISE-LEADER

LYNN KUTTER ENTERPRISE-LEADER Dr. Brian Haggard, director of Arkansas Water Resource Center with University of Arkansas, takes a sample of water from a tributary that flows into the Illinois River. He sampled six sites located upstream and downstream from the sewer system that serves Valley View subidivision. This sample is being taken at the new bridge along Highway 170 in Prairie Grove. Haggard said he stands upstream when taking a sample so as not to contaminate the water.
LYNN KUTTER ENTERPRISE-LEADER Dr. Brian Haggard, director of Arkansas Water Resource Center with University of Arkansas, takes a sample of water from a tributary that flows into the Illinois River. He sampled six sites located upstream and downstream from the sewer system that serves Valley View subidivision. This sample is being taken at the new bridge along Highway 170 in Prairie Grove. Haggard said he stands upstream when taking a sample so as not to contaminate the water.

PRAIRIE GROVE -- At the request of Prairie Grove and Washington County officials, water samples were taken for analysis Thursday afternoon from six sites along an Illinois River tributary that runs through parts of Valley View subdivision.

Samples were taken at sites upstream and downstream from the aeration pond for Washington County Property Owners Improvement District No. 5, the sanitary waste treatment and disposal system that serves Valley View subdivision. Preliminary results will be available in about a week, according to Dr. Brian Haggard, director of Arkansas Water Resource Center with University of Arkansas.

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality issued an emergency order April 1 to Joe Stewart, chairman of the Improvement

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