Stories Archive | Beaver Water District

Looking Back

Throughout 2024, Beaver Water District actively engaged with the community by bringing the H2Oasis and H2Oasis Mini to 18 NWA events. With our water trailers, we successfully distributed 1,608 gallons of refreshing water, significantly reducing plastic waste by preventing 12,179 single-use water bottles from entering the waste stream. In addition to our water distribution efforts, […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

Current Water And Wastewater Challenges Facing NWA

Northwest Arkansas, a region known for its rapid growth and vibrant communities, faces significant water and wastewater challenges. These issues are critical as they impact public health, environmental sustainability, and economic development. There have been many newspaper articles recently that have highlighted the conversations and efforts of NWA leaders to address these challenges. This article […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

Smart Growth for Water Resources – Table Talks

Contributed by Becky Roark, Executive Director, Beaver Watershed Alliance The Beaver Watershed Alliance (Alliance) and area partners have been working on efforts to promote Smart Growth for Water Resources through a variety of activities. Back in early 2024, the Alliance and Edgewater Coaching and Consulting held six public forums to engage NWA stakeholders in envisioning […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

Nineteen Years of Secchi Day on Beaver Lake

On the third Saturday in August, for the 19th year in a row, volunteer citizen scientists collected water quality data as part of the annual Secchi Day on Beaver Lake event. Beaver Water District (BWD) staff then analyzed the data over the next several weeks. The Secchi Day data report was presented on October 12th […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

We Had a Leak!

In early January, Crossland Heavy Contractors (CHC) repaired a leak on the 60” diameter raw water pipeline that conveys water from BWD’s North Intake to our treatment plant. The line had to be taken out of service for the repair, which significantly reduced BWD’s capacity. The repair of this critical pipeline was very challenging, but […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

Employee Happenings – Winter 2025

District Staff Recognized at AWW&WEA Regional Meeting In December members of the Northwest District of the Arkansas Water Works & Water Environment Association (AWW&WEA) met for their monthly training and meeting at the Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences in Fayetteville. The full program included educational sessions, introduction of the 2025 officers, and the 2024 […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

“Top Ops” Is Headed to National Competition

During the Southwest Section of AWWA’s meeting and conference in October, the Beaver Water District Top Ops team came home with a win! The AWWA Top Ops Competition is a competitive, question-and-answer tournament where a moderator asks a broad range of technical questions to the participating teams, and they have limited time to answer. Strategy […]

February 4, 2025 View Article

New Sales Record Set in August

August 2024 was hot and dry. Beaver Water District set 2 new records! On August 7th, the District sold 104.463 MGD (million gallons per day) of clean safe drinking water to the four customer cities. Water sales continue to grow year over year, making August of 2024 the highest amount of water the District has […]

October 28, 2024 View Article

Did You Know??

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was signed into law on December 16, 1974, making this the 50th anniversary of the original statute. This landmark federal legislation has been a key driving force safeguarding the quality of potable water that is essential to daily life across the United States. Administered through the Environmental Protection Agency, the […]

October 28, 2024 View Article

Employee Happenings – Fall 2024

Staff Promotions and Updates Danny Dearing, Engineering Technician, has assumed the additional role as the leader of the Asset Management Program (AMP) for Beaver Water District and, subsequently, has been named Asset Management Lead for the District. Danny will work with the executive staff and lead the AMP team to further develop and execute this […]

October 28, 2024 View Article

2025 Scholarship Recipients

The Joe M. Steele & Hardy W. Croxton Memorial Scholarship is funded by Beaver Water District (BWD) Board Members and provides support to students in the University of Arkansas College of Engineering and Bumpers College. Beaver Water District Board Members donate board meeting attendance fees to the scholarship fund that is managed by the University […]

October 28, 2024 View Article

Beating the Drum

Merrium-Webster defines this phrase as an idiom (expression) “to say or write things that strongly support (someone or something)”. My predecessor here at the Beaver Water District (BWD) used this expression frequently to underscore the importance of continuing to tell the origin story of Beaver Water District and Beaver Lake. Were it not for the […]

October 28, 2024 View Article