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DEQ monitors Arkansas’s surface water in streams and lakes by collecting samples, which DEQ’s Office of Water Quality Laboratory analyzes.
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Protecting and enhancing Arkansas’s waterways—through regulation of stormwater runoff and industrial discharge—is the number one responsibility of the Office of Water Quality (OWQ). OWQ accomplishes this goal through its branches of compliance, enforcement, permits, and planning.
Water Quality Standards are essentially numerical limits on pollutants which affect how we use water. The Standards include limitations on minerals, bacteria, clarity, temperature, oiliness, acidity or alkalinity, oxygen, nutrients and toxic substances.
Arkansas’ Water Quality Standards are Rule 2 of the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission. What are Designated Uses? Designated uses are appropriate water uses to be achieved and protected for specific waterbodies.
The Water Quality Planning Branch develops water quality standards for waterways and closely monitors surface water and groundwater across the state. Surface water quality standards are tailored to the state’s six ecoregions .
Surface water sources such as rivers and lakes currently supply 34 percent for the state’s water needs. Public supply systems provide drinking water to 93 percent of the people of Arkansas and 66 percent of this water comes from surface sources.
21 Αυγ 2023 · The Public Policy Center partnered with the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to produce the 2018-2023 Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Plan, which discusses threats to 11 priority watersheds and action steps that watershed groups or industries can take to reduce pollution levels.
