In March 2021, the Illinois River Watershed Partnership launched a septic remediation program to help applicants pay for system upgrades or replacements.
“It’s a unique program. It’s a pilot. It’s the first of its kind in the state. And it’s being designed, roughly, around a program that’s been very successful in Missouri,” says Matt Taylor, program manager for the Septic Tank Remediation Program at the partnership.
The program covers about half of the watershed for the Illinois River, about 1,650 square miles, which starts in northwestern Arkansas near the urban area covered by Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale and Fayetteville. Then it
