For years, the L’Anguille River carried more than water through eastern Arkansas. Sediment was moving through its waterways too, clouding the river and damaging its water quality. Arkansas officials formally listed the river as impaired for siltation and turbidity in 1998. Nearly three decades later, restoration is still taking place, but the work has moved forward.
One important piece of that effort is Lateral 1A, a smaller waterway within the L’Anguille watershed. Six miles of the channel have already undergone restoration work. Landowners have now restored another two miles, extending a project aimed at keeping sediment from moving farther downstream.
