Utility deal costing city $2M a year, official says
Utility deal costing city $2M a year, official says by Max Bryan | Today at 3:11 a.m. Fort Smith Utility Director Lance McAvoy shows the Fort Smith Board of Directors a trickling filter at the Massard Water Reclamation Facility in Barling in this June 8, 2021, file photo. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file photo) FORT SMITH -- The city's utility department misses out on up to $2 million each year because of its boundary agreement with Barling. As of June 14, 1,049 of Fort Smith's utility customers near Barling didn't pay the city for wastewater treatment because of an agreement that Barling would tre...