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DrainSmart - Central Arkansas

What is Drain Smart?

Drain Smart is an engaging public-education / environmental program that uses art to communicate the function and importance of local storm drains. It gives artists the opportunity to express themselves via semi-permanent public art in a series of a small-scale outdoor storm drain murals. The art also serves to educate the public on local water quality protection.

​Why Storm Drains? 

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In most cities across the United States, municipal storm drains are a direct link to the nearest streams, rivers or lakes. When it rains, storm water flows over parking lots, lawns and other surfaces. This moving water works like a magnet that attaches to everything in its path. Paper and plastic items, grease and oil, brake dust, anti-freeze, fertilizer, yard and pet waste and many other assorted items of litter are all carried into our storm drains when it rains. This polluted water travels untreated through this system before being discharged into our local waterbodies.

Many residents have a misconception that the storm drains are part of our sanitary sewer system that lead to the wastewater treatment plant, which leads them to misuse storm drains--thinking it's a "safe" way to dispose of waste. When pollutants are disposed of via storm drains, they end up directly in our waterways.


Support for Drain Smart is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

CONTACT
drainsmartlr@gmail.com
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  • Home
  • Cities
    • Arkadelphia
    • Bryant
    • Hot Springs
    • Little Rock >
      • 12th Street
      • Bass Pro / Outlets
      • Boys & Girls Club
      • Center Street
      • Clinton Center
      • East Village
      • Kavanaugh Blvd
      • MacArthur Park
      • Promenade at Chenal
      • River Market
      • South Main Street
      • Southwest Community Center
      • Stifft Station
      • War Memorial
      • Zoo
    • North Little Rock
    • Pine Bluff
  • Galleries
    • 2020 galleries
    • 2019 galleries
    • 2018 galleries
    • 2017 galleries
    • 2016 galleries
    • 2016 Unveiling Party
    • 2015 galleries
    • 2015 Unveiling Party
  • Partners
  • Sponsors
  • Map of Drains
  • News & Events