Arkansas River Valley Safe Water Coalition (ARVSWC) was formed to stop the Plains All American Diamond Pipeline from being built in the watershed of Clarksville Light and Water (CL&W) in Johnson County, Arkansas, the foothills of the beautiful Ozark Mountains.  A 20- to 30- inch crude oil bearing pipe will cross Arkansas from Cushing, Oklahoma, to Memphis, Tennessee, and through every tributary that feeds the main and backup water supplies for CL&W.  This city-owned utility serves more than 28,000 customers, numerous poultry brooding houses and processing plants for Tyson Foods, Inc., HanesBrand hosiery, a regional hospital, privately-owned University of the Ozarks and many other industries.  Should a leak of any nature along the Johnson County portion occur, it will bring these industries to a screeching halt, affect the livelihood of hundreds of employees and disrupt the production of drinking water for most of Johnson County and many in neighboring Logan County, who also receive water from CL&W.  Plains All American Pipeline LP and its subsidiaries have reported 223 accidents along their lines since 2006. Those accidents resulted in a combined 864,300 gallons of spilled hazardous liquids, damages topping $32 million and 25 enforcement actions by federal regulators.  The company and its affiliates have had the fifth highest number of significant pipeline accidents among all of the nation’s pipeline operators since 2006. It is not whether the pipeline is safe when it is built, but, more specifically, how safe it is over the decades that it is in the ground pumping oil.  This company does not have a good track record.   The Arkansas Department of Health has issued a recommendation to the Army Corps of Engineers to not permit this pipeline through the CL&W watershed and ARVSWC would like for them to seek a route that does not cross our tributaries.  There is no other municipality that would be as disastrously affected by an oil leak as would Clarksville and Johnson and Logan counties.  Clean, reliable drinking water is critical and the construction of an oil-bearing pipeline directly through the watershed of a rural community would have devastating results.  Our goal is to protect our valuable resource and stop this pipeline's intrusion. Given the afore mentioned, we, the undersigned, hereby ask the Army Corp of Engineers to deny permits for the pipeline as currently proposed and encourage representatives to take whatever action they can to protect our watershed. More information may be obtained on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/Diamond-Pipeline-and-Johnson-County-AR-What-You-Need-To-Know-805158146297679/?ref=hl