A worker operates an excavator while tending to a pile of burning debris along a waterway near Crossover Road where Nabholz Construction Services is working with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department to widen the highway.
The city of Fayetteville passed what is commonly known as the streamside protection ordinance which, among other things, is meant to protect the local waterways from accumulating sediment and chemicals from runoff by establishing a buffer zone around the streams. Some residents became upset that, on the heels of this ordinance passing, the construction along Crossover Road seems to fly in the face of this ordinance, but the land is within a right-of-way for the state highway department. There are also provisions in the ordinance that allow for this sort of construction for projects such as this if there is no other way to go about it.
It's good to clear this sort of thing up, though I doubt that reading Joel Walsh's story that spells all of this out made some residents feel any better. I imagine it's a disturbing thing to see what looks like destruction as this project begins. Where there were trees and a stream is now a barren, muddy stretch of land.
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