This agreement provides support to the state of arkansas to implement its nonpoint source management program, focusing on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted runoff from…

This $6,273,097 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants program (CFDA 66.460) supports the State of Arkansas in implementing its Nonpoint Source Management Program. The program focuses on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted runoff from nonpoint sources. Key project activities include:

• Implementing a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices (BMPs) to reduce nutrient loading in watersheds
• Conducting watershed planning, monitoring, and technology demonstrations
• Delivering education and outreach programs to increase awareness of nonpoint source pollution

The award includes 16 sub-grant projects with state and local partners such as conservation districts, universities, and non-profit organizations. These sub-projects address priorities like streambank restoration, water quality monitoring, and conservation practice implementation across multiple watersheds in Arkansas. The anticipated outcomes include reduced nutrient pollution, restored streambanks, and increased awareness of methods to mitigate nonpoint source impacts.

This agreement provides support to the state of arkansas to implement its nonpoint source management program, focusing on watersheds with water quality impairments caused by polluted runoff from nonpoint sources. Nonpoint source implementation projects include a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices (bmps), watershed planning, monitoring, technology demonstrations and a variety of education/outreach programs.activities:the proposed work in this agreement includes sixteen projects that will support nutrient reduction, coordination with partner agencies, priority watersheds, implementation projects, streambank restoration, education and outreach and revising the arkansas nonpoint source management plan. Nonpoint source implementation projects include a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices (bmps), watershed planning, monitoring, technology demonstrations, and a variety of education/outreach programs. Subrecipient:the proposed work in this agreement includes sixteen subaward projects that will support nutrient reduction, coordination with partner agencies, priority watersheds, implementation projects, streambank restoration, education and outreach and revising the arkansas nonpoint source management plan. Nonpoint source implementation projects include a variety of structural and non-structural best management practices (bmps), watershed planning, monitoring, technology demonstrations, and a variety of education/outreach programs. Projects are: 1. Water quality monitoring and data organization for springs in the northwest arkansas karst region: blowing springs, cave springs, logan cave and withrow springs 2. Hicks creek-white river watershed protection program 3. Beaver lake watershed streambank erosion and barrier assessment, stream restoration design, implementation and outreach for watershed planning 4. L'anguille river watershed- water quality project 5. Cross county-l'anguille river watershed water quality project 6. Water quality monitoring in four priority watersheds; bayou bartholomew, cadron, little red, and lower white - bayou DES ARC 7. Myatt creek sub-watershed of the spring river watershed basin 8. Mill creek (A.K.A., flatrock creek) conservation practice implementation 9. White/kings river watershed project 10. Streambank restoration and riparian buffer enhancement in the upper illinois river watershed 11. Education on regional approaches to NWA stormwater and flood management 12. Preserving water quality in the illinois river watershed 13. Monitoring sediment transport from unpaved roads in brush creek 14. The nature conservancy upper cadron creek watershed stream barrier remediation and unpaved road erosion and sediment reduction 15. Using the arkansas watershed stewardship program to increase watershed management plan implementation in arkansas 16. Natural resource information for potential development sites 17. Arkansas unpaved roads program supportoutcomes:the anticipated deliverables and expected outcomes include reduced nutrient loading in watersheds, restored streambanks, best management practice implementation, increased awareness of nonpoint source pollution sources and methods to reduce them. Direct beneficiaries of this program include residents and occupants, both permanent and temporary, in the state of arkansas.