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County judges urge consolidation, clearer authority for defunct levee districts after Arkansas River flooding
Summary
County judges who led emergency actions described decades‑old levee pipes and gates that failed, urged the Legislature to give county authorities clearer powers to repair and reconstitute defunct levee districts and called for consolidation of contiguous districts so local and federal mitigation funds can be applied efficiently.
County judges and county officials told a joint legislative meeting that many aging levee districts are inactive or underfunded and that state action is needed to make them functional again.
Conway County Judge Jimmy Hart described emergency measures his office used to stave off larger damage — sheet piling, Coffer dams and borrowed heavy equipment — and said some…
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