Ark. Code Ann. § 15-22-501 (2020)

As used in this subchapter, “water development project” means the construction, acquisition, ownership, replacement, operation, and maintenance of facilities, including land, easements, and works of improvement, for the protection, conservation, preservation, development, utilization, and proper disposal of the state's water resources and related land resources in order to:

1. Provide for the people of the state adequate supplies of quality water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, recreational, and domestic purposes, water for navigation, and access to the state's lakes and streams, parks, and other recreational sites along their shores;
2. Reclaim, preserve, and protect the state's land resources and adequately protect the wealth of the state from disastrous floods; and
3. Collect or treat sewage, including without limitation, wastewater treatment plants, intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, pumping stations, instrumentation and control systems, and other appurtenances necessary or useful for the collection, removal, reduction, treatment, purification, disposal, and handling of liquid and solid waste, sewage and industrial waste, and refuse.

History. Acts 1969, No. 217, § 1; 1973, No. 584, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 21-1317; Acts 2011, No. 26, § 1.

Amendments. The 2011 amendment deleted former (1); redesignated former (2)(A) and (B) as present (1) and (2); and added (3).