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House passes bill to bar new landfills on karst geology
Summary
The Arkansas House passed House Bill 1576 on March 11, 2025, prohibiting future solid waste landfills from being sited on karst topography. Sponsors said the measure aims to protect groundwater and springs; a lawmaker recounted a historical contamination incident to illustrate the risk.
The Arkansas House on March 11, 2025, passed House Bill 1576, a measure that would prohibit future solid waste landfills from being placed over karst topography.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Lundstrom, told colleagues that Arkansas’s “karst topography has lots of cracks and fissures,” and that those geologic features allow water — and any contaminants — to move rapidly underground. “All this bill does, it says in the future, when we go looking for a landfill, we won't put it over…
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