The City of Fort Smith in 2024 completed two major sewer basin projects, cleaned 32,971 linear feet of sewer system lines, ...

The consent decree is a legally binding agreement issued ... found that Fort Smith’s sewer infrastructure was causing sanitary sewer overflows and untreated sewage to spill into local waterways.

"I think the board understands that the sewer rates, as we've proposed them, are an integral part of the response that we gave to the Department of Justice and the EPA regarding the consent decree ...