The economy of northwest Arkansas, including the Lincoln Lake watershed (a sub-watershed of the Illinois River), relies greatly upon livestock and poultry production. The supply of production by-products is increasingly under scrutiny as one of the potential sources of water pollution in the...

The purpose of this article is to explore the CWA’s regulatory impact on Arkansas’s agricultural producers. This article will discuss in the subsections below: 1) the jurisdiction and waters covered by the CWA; 2) the broad definition that has been given to the term “pollutant” by the...