Arkansasonline Buffalo Impaired Story by Mike Masterson Tuesday, July 31, 2018 We’ve been warned for years by hydrogeologists, geoscientists and others who understand disease-causing bacteria and contamination of waterways. Now over 14 miles of our unique Buffalo National River is categorized in a draft list as being impaired. That means one […]
Arkansasonline Panel OKs decision on hog farm permit By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 29, 2018 at 3:29 a.m. The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission approved Friday its administrative law judge’s recommendations to deny motions made by C&H Hog Farms arguing that its original permit was indefinitely active. Administrative Law Judge […]
Arkansas Times Additional conflict noted for pro-hog farm vote on Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Posted By Max Brantley on Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:44 AM The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today wrote its story about a topic we reported Friday — the decision by new Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Mike Freeze of Keo to vote in favor of a permit for […]
Arkansasonline Commissioner still on C&H case Recusal over earlier remarks unneccessary, panel decides By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 29, 2018 at 3:29 a.m. An Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission member can continue to participate in hearings about C&H Hog Farms’ appeal of its permit denial after writing public comments in […]
Arkansasonline Buffalo River visitors warned against algae By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 28, 2018 at 3:52 a.m. Visitors to the Buffalo National River should watch out for algae on the river that has the potential to produce cyanotoxins, the National Park Service said in a news release Friday. Cyanotoxins are naturally […]
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Part of Buffalo River, Big Creek on Arkansas’ impaired list By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 27, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. The country’s first national river is impaired, according to Arkansas environmental regulators. The Buffalo National River and Big Creek, a nearly 19-mile tributary of the river, are […]
Arkansas Times New Pollution Control commissioner ignores conflict and votes for hog farm Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:35 PM The news from the Buffalo River continues to be bad, between increasing algae and pollution problems and Governor Hutchinson’s overt corporate politicking in government agencies. The Farm Bureau now effectively has a designated seat on the Pollution Control […]
KATV ADEQ report lists Arkansas waterways as “impaired”, including portions of Buffalo River LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — It’s a list the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is mandated to submit to the EPA every two years, in accordance with the federal Clean Waters Act – a list that compiles water quality […]
Listen: KUAF Radio Park Service Investigates Algae on Buffalo National River By JACQUELINE FROELICH • JUL 19, 2018 Public complaints about a growing number of algal blooms on the Buffalo National River have spurred the National Park Service to investigate. Park Service spokesperson Caven Clark says visitors are welcome to safely […]
Group seeks to buy last 1,600 feet for hiking trail along Buffalo River path in Arkansas By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 16, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. A conservation group wants to buy the final tract of land needed to finish a hiking trail that would stretch about 100 miles along the […]
New comment period advised for hog farm By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 11, 2018 at 1:08 a.m. A judge recommended to environmental regulators Tuesday a permit application for a hog farm within the Buffalo River watershed should go back out for public notice and comment after it was denied earlier this […]
Back to Buffalo Regulatory rigmarole By Mike Masterson Posted: July 8, 2018 at 1:50 a.m Attorneys for C&H Hog Farms (badly misplaced in the Buffalo National River watershed) are herding every pig-in-a-poke possible toward the state’s Pollution Control and Ecology Commission in hopes of overturning their client’s Regulation 5 permit denial. […]
Public Notice Resource Center Notice Again at Issue in Battle Over Arkansas Hog Farm IDecember 2012, residents of Newton County, Arkansas were shocked to learn that the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) had approved a permit to operate a hog farm on the banks of Big Creek, a tributary […]