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 LITTLE
ROCK - Six road projects, all leading to public fishing, recreation and
educational areas, were approved for the 2005 construction season by the
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at its March meeting in Little Rock.
All of the projects will make use of Marine Fuel Tax funds, which come
from state taxes paid on gasoline and diesel use in boats.
One of the projects will be the entrance road and parking area for the
Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center at Fort Smith. This
is the third nature center the AGFC has undertaken as a commitment made
in the 1996 campaign for the 1/8th-Cent Conservation Sales
Tax. Nature centers are open at Pine Bluff and Jonesboro, and a fourth
is planned for Little Rock.
The road and parking lot at the Fort Smith center, which is on surplus
land at Fort Chaffee, will cost an estimated $60,000.
Another project is a one-mile road leading to the AGFC's Lake Wallace,
which straddles the Chicot-Ashley county line near Dermott in southeast
Arkansas. The project will cost about $40,000 and will include a
handicapped-accessible fishing pier and parking area.
In Stone County, a road leading to the Younger Access Area on the White
River will be improved with a two-mile overlay project. This will cost
about $100,000.
In Crawford County, a road leading to the Clear Creek Public Use Area of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be upgraded with 3.7 miles of
overlay at a lost of $115,000.
A two-mile road leading to the Cox Creek Public Use Area of the Corps of
Engineers on DeGray Lake will be reworked with a double seal project.
This is on the extreme upper end of DeGray in Hot Spring County and will
cost about $60,000.
An entrance road of close to a mile along with a parking lot will be
surfaced at White Cliffs Public Use Area of the Corps of Engineers on
Lake Millwood in Howard County. Cost is estimated at $40,000.
All of the projects are expected to be completed in 2005. |
