Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers has endorsed Issue 4, a statewide ballot question that would let Arkansas borrow up to $500 million for water, sewer and pollution control projects.
The Mountain Home-based watershed group’s board of directors announced its support in a letter to members this week, calling reliable water and wastewater systems essential to cities across the Middle White River watershed.
“Clean, healthy rivers depend on more than protecting the water itself. They also depend on communities having the resources to properly build, maintain and update the infrastructure that manages our water and wastewater,” board President Shelly Hill said. “For communities in the Middle White River watershed, those investments can support economic growth while helping prevent pollution from reaching the rivers and streams we all depend on.”…