Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services
Division of Health
Center for Local Public Health - Environmental Health Branch - Engineering Section

Extending a water system can be very expensive. Sometimes barriers like elevation differences, low pressures, and a lack of property easements can make the problem extremely difficult to overcome. (New rural water lines sometimes cost as much as $5000 per customer to construct, primarily because the customers are not very close together.) Contact the closest water system to you and inform them of your desire to hook on to their system. They can advise you if such a connection is a possibility. If not possible for you as an individual, combining efforts with your neighbors can sometimes result in successful water system expansions.