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is to be held on Tuesday, March 30th at 7:00 p.m.
in the West Fork Community Building
(222 Webber Street in West Fork)

Audubon Arkansas invites you to participate in a hands-on water quality discussion at our 3rd in a series of West Fork White River Watershed community meetings.

This meeting is open to the public and will address the following issues, which were generated at the previous two meetings, as areas of concern:

* Run-off from the 180 miles of gravel roads in Washington County
* Streambank Erosion
* Railroad ties in the river
* Storm Water Run-off
* Gravel Mining
* Junkyard cars in the river
* Fish Habitat
* Lack of Riparian Zone/Buffer Strips
* Free Water Quality testing for wells, springs, creeks and the river.

If you have additional concerns and/or ideas about how to address some of the topics listed above, please come join us for this interactive planning meeting of watershed neighbors and stakeholders.

Special Guests: Washington County Cooperative Extension Service Water Quality Staff

Refreshments will be served...please come join us and bring a friend/neighbor!

For more information, contact:
Melissa Terry
WF-WR Conservation Organizer
Audubon Arkansas
479-841-2806

mterry@audubon.org
www.ar.audubon.org

* Here's a mapquest link for directions to the West Fork Community Building: Map

Where is the West Fork Watershed? The WF-WR watershed is a 124 square mile sub-watershed of the Beaver Lake Basin and located in the Boston Mountains of Washington County, AR. The main channel of the WF-WR watershed originates near the town of Winslow, AR and flows north. It passes through several cities including Greenland and Fayetteville and forms a confluence with the White River just east of Fayetteville. The WF-WR watershed is approximately 57% forest, 33% agriculture, and 10% urban.

The West Fork of the White River counts as its tributaries, Town Branch, Cato Springs, Rock Creek, and many other contributing streams. The West Fork joins the White River just below Lake Sequoyah, and together, the streams flow for about 13 miles to the upper reaches of Beaver Lake. Beaver Lake is the primary water supply source for the 300,000+ residents of Benton and Washington counties. The West Fork of the White River is within a ³Priority Watershed" and has been listed as an impaired waterway by state/federal water quality staff.