Phosphorus in check, water study shows

UA engineer calls further discharge reductions ‘a waste of money’

By Richard Massey

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Results of a water-quality study released Tuesday show that discharges into Osage and Spring creeks do not violate state limits on phosphorus content.

The $425,000 study, commissioned in 2007 by Springdale and Rogers, shows phosphorus levels downstream from wastewater treatment plants in the two towns are well below the 1 milligram per liter limit. The study will be submitted to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the federalEnvironmental Protection Agency, which has plans to study the entire Illinois River Watershed beginning next year.

Springdale and Rogers commissioned the study hoping to refute the EPA’s assertion that too much phosphorus is being discharged into the creeks. The streams, both within the Illinois River watershed, have been on the ...

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river1939_suddenlink.net says...

If I am not mistaken, the EPA requirement for the new NACA plant is 0.1 milligrams per liter rather than 1.0 milligrams per liter as reported in this article. Of course, I may be wrong.

Joe Nix

December 9, 2009 at 6:11 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

STIR_INC says...

Hot dog! Rogers and Springdale pay for a study by an Arkansas University that shows their pollution is OK.

Let's hope EPA has enough sense to see through this ploy. You know that ADEQ will buy it. Oklahoma won't.

Riverok

December 9, 2009 at 7:24 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

postman says...

what a joke. we're talking senseless when it comes to the EPA.they didn't like the propellant in the old asthma inhalers either, because it would "destroy the ozone layer". now the same medicine costs 10 times as much and is not nearly as effective, thanks to your government in action.
postman

December 9, 2009 at 7:23 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

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