Protecting Lake Maumelle Protects Our Health, Family and Future
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C
entral Arkansas enjoys some of the purest and best tasting drinking water in America thanks to the pristine water quality of Lake Maumelle. And that is no accident.
Central Arkansas Water, with the support of local civic leaders and elected officials, works diligently to limit those activities around Lake Maumelle and its watershed that could degrade the quality and raise the cost of your drinking water. Because Lake
Although we are fortunate to have an abundant water supply in the metropolitan area, customers are encouraged to be good stewards of our water sources by practicing efďŹ cient outdoor water use. Customers are asked to alter timing of outdoor watering patterns to avoid the peak time of day demand during the hot summer months Maumelle is so clean, customers pay less becauseand less treatment to avoid operating sprinkler systems is required. Unregulated large scale between 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. residential and commercial development in the watershed threatens our long term pipeline that recently future with slow chemical and ruptured near Lake pesticide runoff from lawns and Conway, spilling a large streets. The Maumelle Watershed amount of oil. If we take is over 80% forested providing it care of Lake Maumelle with priceless protection so long and its watershed, the as we don’t destroy it. lake will continue to Unplanned accidents are the provide our children greatest short term risk to our and grandchildren with drinking water supply. Recently carkw.com some of the purest, Central Arkansas Water asked best tasting water in ExxonMobil Corp. to move over America. To learn more 13 miles of oil pipeline that go to www.carkw.com goes through the watershed click on the Watershed CAW Ark Times Avoid The Peak Ad.indd 1 near the lake. That is the same Management tag.
Learn more about the Sprinkler Smart Program at carkw.com, uaex.edu, or by calling
501.340.6650
Clean water adds to quality of life.
For more information on Lake Maumelle and the Watershed Management program, check us out online at www.carkw.com 7/24/12 10:25:38 AM under the public information tag.
This Is Your Drinking Water. help us Protect It.