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The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Sept. 19) approved a request from the city’s utilities department to proceed with the acquisition of properties related to a federal consent…
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The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved three resolutions related to the city’s federal consent decree totaling $1.929 million at Tuesday night’s (July 18) meeting. The resolutions all related specifically…
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The Fort Smith Board of Directors authorized appropriations for the utilities department’s capital improvement plan (CIP) for 2017 to the tune of $18.325 million in water and sewer upgrades and…
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Fort Smith officials are seeing the first signs of a more willing partner in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the direction of President Donald Trump appointee and former…
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Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken knows he has a sizable task on his hands navigating the city’s federal consent decree for years-long violations of the Clean Water Act, and…
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Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken is done with sewer rate increases for the foreseeable future, stating his administration would no longer entertain increases as long as prices were at…
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The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved an additional $4 million in consent decree-related items Tuesday night (March 14) at its second regular meeting in two weeks, pushing consent decree…
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The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved $5 million in consent decree items Tuesday night (March 7) at its regular meeting. The approvals prompted one city director to call for…
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The Fort Smith Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) ordinance went into effect in January as required by the federal consent decree, but will likely not reach the enforcement stage until…
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The city of Fort Smith has filed a formal dispute resolution in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) denial of a request to spend money in-city rather than sending…
