WSP01088

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 6/1/1977
• Title: Specific Problem Analysis Summary Report - 1975 National Assessment of Water and Related Land Resources - Part 2 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Jasper County area. These alternatives include increasing the
supply of water through increasing the number of wells and amount
of water obtained from groundwater sources. increasing the supply
of water by piping it from existing reservoirs. and probably the
most important is the construction of reservoirs within the area.
Already several sites have been considered with in Jasper anu Newton
Counties, namely on Center Creek and Shoal Creek, with Prosperity
Reservoir considered the frontrunning choice followed by Granby
for a second possible reservoir. These two suggested reservoirs
could provide the urban growth area of Jasper and Newton Counties
with the short- and medium-range projected water needs. Urban
demands in the urban growth area may require construction of addi-
tional reservoirs to fulfill long-range water needs.

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Missouri uses the Riparian Rights, as modified by Reasonable
Use and natural flow as the basis for ground and surface water
administration. To protect shallow and deep formations, the state
reauires ,high y~ild or public wells to be cased. Private (residential)
are to be cased to a depth of at least 80 feet with schedule 40 plastic
pipe or equiva ~nt. Rock wells producing over 30 g.p.m. must be
constructed to state standards which includes casing with a mini-
mum of 19# per foot steel pipe or equivalent to a depth determined
for each well by the Division of Geology and Land Survey within
the Department of Natural Resources.

State law requires water supply facility plans and designs
to be approved before construction by the Department of Natural
Resources.

Application of Public Law 92-500 -- the Federal Water Quality
Act Amendment of 1972 and the Missouri Clean Water Law of 1972,
seek to reduce, if not eliminate, effluent discharges which cause
water to be less than suitable for swimming and fish habitat.

Neither of the two counties in the Joplin problem area have
county wide planning and zoning. Planning and zoning is provided
for in state law but is not mandatory. Jasper County voters have
disapproved county wide planning and zoning.

Problem Effects Information:

With the existing and additional needs for fresh water, and
the shortage of impoundments, there w~ll.be increased usage of
the groundwater in thia area which may cause shallow wells to go
dry thereby requiring deeper and more costly wells. At present,
wells can be drilled in many parts of the area that will produce
water which meets U. S. Public Health Standards without treatment.
However. increased population pressures and agri-business activi-
ties and improper casing of wells threaten to cause widespread
contamination of groundwater and at the same time develop cones
of depression because of increased pumping.

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