Phosphorus-Commentary by Art Hobson, Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Commentary about Illinois River pollution


The late Art Hobson wrote often about the pollution of the Illinois River watershed.  He was a good friend of the Illinois River and a believer in good science for water quality protection.

COMMENTARY
Who Put The Phosphorus In The River?

STREAMS ARE SENSISTIVE TO EXCESS POLLUTION, WHICH TURNS WATER GREEN, SUFFOCATES FISH
December 18, 2011 by Art Hobson

Phosphorus pollution in the Illinois River continues to fester. Recently, the Northwest Arkansas Council, a regional business group, asked Washington and Benton counties and five cities to finance yet another study of the problem. A new scientifically objective study might help. But if it’s merely a lobbying effort arising from fear that the federal Environmental Protection Agency will “come in and tell us what to do,” as one Washington County Quorum Court member put it, it will do more harm than good.

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2011/dec/18/who-put-phosphorus-river-20111218/

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, a collection of Art Hobson's commentaries and articles: https://www.nwaonline.com/staff/art-hobson/stories/?page=5