Lake Maumelle and Lake Winona provide a high -quality and abundant supply of drinking water at a reasonable cost for approximately 400,000 customers in Central Arkansas. As the local water supplier, Central Arkansas Water (CAW) governs and manages the two lakes and maintains, as a top priority source, water protection ensuring safe, adequate, and reliable drinking water for customers now and in the future.
Protecting and maintaining the quality of raw water sources has become a focus for us locally and for public drinking water suppliers around the state and across the nation. The quality of the raw water sources determines:
Our management program consists of measures to protect the two lakes from sediment, pollution, and other sources of possible contamination that could affect the quality of our drinking water. A critical factor is to monitor and address potential sources of contaminated runoff that feed the lakes and ultimately, after treatment, become our drinking water.
In an effort to take a comprehensive approach to protecting Lake Maumelle, the CAW Board of Commissioners adopted the Lake Maumelle Watershed Management Plan in February 2007.
Do your part to protect area watersheds and fresh drinking water both now and for the future. Learn more about all the ways to get involved with Central Arkansas Water.