Bayou Meto Water Management District

The Bayou Meto Water Management Project will provide irrigation water from the Arkansas River, improve drainage, and enhance wildlife habitat.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) recently awarded the project over $40 million. The District will match the money through loans from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Division.

With this money from NRCS, the District can clean out portions of Indian Bayou and other watercourses and build pipelines to reach farms.

The main canal, which will cross Highway 165 just south of Scott, is being built by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

An additional three miles of canal will be built to reach Indian Bayou so water can be delivered.

In later phases, the project will move east and north, eventually serving 268,000 acres of irrigated land.