Tapped Out
The Jonesboro Sun has a story today regarding the steady decline in groundwater levels in the Arkansas Delta. Over the course of my entire life, farmers have had to go deeper and deeper every year for their irrigation water. Everyone is mildly concerned about the issue. It was/is a consistent conversation piece at the BIG table where all the farmers sit at the coffee-shop. But, like all things threatening on the horizon, nothing much is every done until the threat is imminent. The situation has yet to become imminent in Lawrence County, where I'm from. The situation is much more dire in other parts of the state. The article in the Sun today quotes a speaker on the subject who claims that parts of Cross, Poinsett and Craighead Counties could run dry as soon as 2009.
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Any idea what the proposed solutions are, and whether or not the farmers are agreeable to them?
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January 13, 2007 10:15 AM
The reservoir project on the White river is an example of a planned solution. The reservoir will be filled when the river is a high levels and then used for agricultural irrigation purposes. The same could be done along the Black, Arkansas, Mississippi, Current, and Cache Rivers.
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January 15, 2007 01:59 PM