Water Council faces long agenda
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
BENTONVILLE — Three speakers will talk about different water-related issues at the next meeting of the Multi-Basin Regional Water Council.
Susan Lourne, an attorney experienced in water disputes between states, will talk about interstate allocation of water resources under the U. S. Constitution’s commerce clause.
Carl Metcalf, chairman of the Grand Lake Watershed Alliance Foundation, will talk about the Grand Lake Watershed Plan, which covers 10, 300 square miles and includes the Spring, Elk and Neosho rivers.
Reed Green, assistant director of the U. S. Geological Survey’s Water Science Center in Little Rock, will talk about the region’s contribution to the hypozia zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Known as the “ dead zone, ” it is larger than the state of Massachusetts.
Also on the agenda is confirmation of Michelle Viney, of Audubon, Ark., as secretary of the council.
The meeting will get under way at 10: 30 a. m. Friday at the Bentonville Public Library, 405 S. Main St.
People from various water-related organizations — members of the Water / Wastewater / Watershed Committee of the Missouri Arkansas Partnership — last came together on Nov. 9, 2007, in Bentonville and created the new council to help numerous organizations identify and work toward common, water-related goals.
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