Beaver Water District sells water at the wholesale rate of $1.38/1000 gallons of water (as of Oct. 1, 2019). Clean, treated, ready-to-drink tap water is sold to four customer cities – Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville – which supply this water to more than 358,000 customers (Source: Data from each customer city and Arkansas Department of Health as of May 27, 2019). In 1973, the average daily demand for water from the District’s four wholesale customer cities – Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville – was about 15 million gallons per day (mgd). Today, the average daily demand is 55 mgd and a peak day in the summer could reach to almost 90 mgd. The daily pumping capacity at Beaver Water District’s intake at Beaver Lake is 150 mgd. The daily water treatment capacity is 140 mgd.

 

Beaver Water District's Customers

Fayetteville

Fayetteville buys water from BWD and owns and operates the system in Fayetteville, Farmington, Greenland, Goshen, Wheeler, parts of Johnson and some rural areas in Washington County. Fayetteville also provides wholesale service to Elkins, West Fork, and Mount Olive Rural Water Association.

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Springdale

Springdale Water Utilities buys water from BWD and sells to consumers in Springdale, Bethel Heights, Elm Springs, the northern part of Johnson, the southern part of Lowell, and unincorporated areas of Washington and Benton counties that are within its designated water service boundary. Bulk sales are made to the water system operated by the city of Tontitown.

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Rogers

Rogers buys water from BWD and resells it to Rogers and a portion of Lowell and to Benton County Rural Development Authority (RDA) No. 4 Frisco Springs.

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Bentonville

The city of Bentonville buys water from Beaver Water District and resells it in Bentonville, Bella Vista, Cave Springs, Oakhills Suburban Improvement District, and Old Bella Vista Property Owners Association.

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Other Beaver Lake Regional Water Supply

Benton-Washington Regional Water Authority

Visit bwrpwa.com to learn more

 

Carroll-Boone Water District

For information, call 479-253-7269. You may also visit the City of Eureka Springs website, which contains some information and is a customer of Carroll-Boone Water District.

 

Madison County Regional Water District

For more information, call 479-789-2866. You may also visit the Madison County Water facilities Board website, which contains some information about MCRWD.

 

Benton County Water Authority #4 and #5

For more information, visit the Rural Water Management Services Inc., which contains information including billing, Consumer Confidence Reports, and Service Maps showing areas around Beaver Lake served by these two Water Authorities.

 

The estimated combined population of the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Statistical Area (Northwest Arkansas) exceeds 550,000 residents. For more information, visit the Northwest Arkansas Council’s The Northwest Arkansas Data Information Center. Beaver Lake is the drinking water source for more than half a million people or 1 in 6 Arkansans. (March 6, 2020: Derived from sources including the Arkansas Department of Health and population statistics for the state of Arkansas and for the MSA numbers reported here.)