Monticello Live

Around 8:20, Saturday night, the fire hydrant near the intersection of Mill and Gaines Streets was struck by car, and begin flooding the area, with most of the water going to the Mill Street/278 drain.

Water service in the area was affected.

Thanks to City for responding.

On March 14th at 2:00 p.m. at City Hall, bids were opened for a grant funded city drainage project that was applied for in 2023 as part of the Mayor’s infrastructure improvement agenda.

The project, encompassing Jackson, Conley and multiple side streets is funded by a grant from the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. (more…)

The Conrad Street water tower has been cleaned out, repainted and repaired inside and out. While we work to improve our infrastructure and water quality, we also want to take the opportunity to support our Weevils!

There is currently  a water outage, due to a main leak on Winchester Road, affecting Winchester, East Oakland, East Wood and surrounding areas.

Unknown outage time.

According to Mayor Jason Akers, Monticello will be one of the first cities in Arkansas to participate in a new 2 year training program designed for training Water Quality Operators.

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The City is utilizing the Arkansas Department of Corrections labor squads to scrape back the grass that’s grown over the edge of some of our city streets and sidewalks.

This is being done to make things not only look better but to prepare for new striping on some of our streets that really need it.

According to Monticello Mayor Jason Akers, City Street crews are removing decades old rotted drainage pipes in McCloy Park. (more…)

There is a main water line outage on HWY 425 South.

The line is on Borchardt Street.

Monticello Laundry, located behind EZ Mart, will not have any water until the main line is repaired.

The City of Monticello recently completed another much needed infrastructure project near Bowser Road.
The project replaced the Bowser Sewer lift station, which by all available information was nearly 50 years old. The old lift station was unable to accommodate the amount of sewage modern Monticello produces and often contributed to infrastructure related problems for residents in the area. (more…)

While drilling crews were working on S. Hyatt St., a shovel hit a summit gas line, causing the leak, which intern brought repair crews to the area, shutting down S. Hyatt St., between Shelton and Jackson.

Please avoid the area if at all possible.