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'Lake Conway'

Best and Worst 2023

Here's the thing about 2023: You have to grade it on a curve. Things weren’t great; they could have been a whole lot worse.
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Catch limits lifted in advance of Lake Conway drawdown

The next few months are anglers' last chance to fish at Lake Conway before renovations begin.
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Lake Conway meeting location changed

The location for tonight's second public meeting about the Lake Conway drawdown and renovations has been changed to the Mayflower High School Cafeteria at 10 Lesley King Drive.

Bake the lake: Plans to drain Lake Conway have neighbors heated

Arkansas Game and Fish officials say draining the lake for up to five years will save it. But people who live near Lake Conway or who boat and fish there aren't happy.
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Arkansas Game and Fish reports two giant catfish caught in Lake Conway

A brother-and-sister night fishing excursion turns up the stuff of nightmares. Or some good eatin', depending on who you ask.

The Mayflower oil spill robbed Michelle Ward of her middle-class dream

One year later, she and other residents and stakeholders in Mayflower consider the toll exacted by Exxon's spill.
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Lake Conway spared from Mayflower oil spill catastrophe

But testing shows cove needs more cleanup.

Federal agency finds probable violations by ExxonMobil in Mayflower pipeline break, sets $2.6 million penalties

The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in a letter today notified the ExxonMobil Pipeline Company that it had found 
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Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Game and Fish request more testing of Lake Conway from Exxon

Game and Fish letter says that Exxon's figure for a certain kind of contamination may misrepresent the amount of toxins still in the environment.

Environmental chemist Wilma Subra skeptical of ADEQ's preliminary findings in Mayflower

Subra said that the data indicates more sampling must be done in order to determine the extent of the contamination, and she isn’t ready to rule out the possible presence of oil in the main body of Lake Conway
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The dismal economic realities of the Northwoods subdivision after the Exxon spill

The world knows Mayflower's Northwoods subdivision as the sleepy, comfortable neighborhood that ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline blighted in a March 29 spill that blacked yards and streets with an estimated 210,000 gallons of heavy crude.

'Ecological concerns' from pollutant levels in Lake Conway-area soil samples UPDATE

The news release: The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) have conducted preliminary reviews of soil and sediment samples pulled by ExxonMobil in and around Lake Conway and the Northwoods subdivision in Mayflower as part of ongoing remediation efforts following a March 29, 2013 oil spill.
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