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Flood-damaged White River fishing facility to be rebuilt |
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Commissioners of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission approved rebuilding the bank fishing facility at their January meeting in Little Rock. It will cost an estimated $56,500, and the money has been pledged from sources outside the AGFC. The agency's fisheries chief, Mike Gibson, said the Fayetteville chapter of Trout Unlimited has agreed to donate $10,000, and another $16,586 has been received from the Federal Emergency Management Administration. This will allow the AGFC to meet the 75-25 match for a Sport Fish Restoration funding of $30,000 for the project. This is money from federal excise taxes paid on fishing gear and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The reconstruction will be supervised by the AGFC. The Parker Bottoms facility is in Carroll County west of Eureka Springs and about 2 miles downstream from Beaver Dam. It was built several years ago as part of the Beaver Tailwater Habitat Improvement Project. The work was done by Navy Seabees under the supervision of Larry Rider, AGFC fisheries habitat coordinator. When extremely heavy rains last spring forced flood gates to be opened at the dam, the Parker Bottoms facility was damaged. |
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