CPRG – West Fork of the White River

The West Fork project is centered on the City of West Fork’s property that once was the location for their wastewater treatment facilities.  Today, wastewater from the city is piped to the City of Fayetteville’s Noland Wastewater Treatment Plant. The wastewater ponds on the property were decommissioned, and the degraded floodplain areas have the potential to become a nature park for City residents. The property runs along the West Fork of the White River (WFWR), which is a major tributary to the White River.  The White River forms Beaver Lake, which serves as the region’s primary drinking water source.  Stream, riparian, and prairie restoration will all help to protect water quality within the Beaver Lake Watershed.  This project will connect to and enhance a recently completed one-mile-long river restoration project on the WFWR adjacent to and downstream of the project area.  The estimated combined carbon reduction and sequestration from this project is 7,620 metric tons during 2025-2050.

The WCRC will conduct land restoration, which consists of 16.5 acres of riparian, 5.6 acres of wetland, and 8.4 acres of prairie restoration in the project area. The WCRC will restore 1,610 ft of Dye Creek and 500 ft of the West Fork White River. NWALT will develop a conservation easement for the property.