Map of Watershed Plan

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The Lake Maumelle watershed consists of approximately 88,000 acres in Pulaski and Perry counties. The watershed is the land from which runoff feeds into the lake. Central Arkansas Water (CAW) owns 7,998 acres, the U.S. Forest Service owns 18,287 acres, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism owns approximately 64 acres, and the remaining 61,650 (two-thirds of the entire watershed) is under private ownership. The Lake Maumelle watershed Protection Plan prohibits land-development on the 1,300 acres closest to the intake structures (Zone 1) and calls for pollution-control restrictions for land-development in the remaining acreage (Zone 2). The 1,300 acres in Zone 1 are less than 2% of total lands in the watershed and are crucial to protecting the drinking water supply for today and in the future.On the above map, the vertical red line shows the boundary between Zone 1 and Zone 2. CAW owns much of Zone 1. Areas 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Zone 1 indicate properties that CAW intends to acquire for watershed and water quality protection. The map also shows streams that flow into the lake, as well as buffering that the utility needs to acquire or monitor around the critical streams in Zone 2.