Arkansas Infrastructure Overview
While the nation’s infrastructure earned a C in the 2025 Infrastructure Report Card, Arkansas faces infrastructure challenges of its own. For example, driving on roads in need of repair in Arkansas costs each driver $671 per year, and 4.9% of bridges are rated structurally deficient. Drinking water needs in Arkansas are an estimated $7.4 billion. 193 dams are considered to be high-hazard potential. The state’s schools have an estimated capital expenditure gap of $350 million. This deteriorating infrastructure impedes Arkansas’s ability to compete in an increasingly global marketplace. Success in a 21st-century economy requires serious, sustained leadership on infrastructure investment at all levels of government. Delaying these investments only escalates the cost and risks of an aging infrastructure system, an option that the country, Arkansas, and families can no longer afford.
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58% of roads in Arkansas are rated in fair or poor condition.
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Aviation
$41 million in 2024 airport improvement grants across 6 major airports
Drinking Water
$7.7 billion total drinking water need
Transit
4.9 million passenger trips across 15 systems in 2023
Bridges
12,974 bridges, 5.4% of which were structurally deficient in 2024
Hazardous Waste
17 Superfund sites
Wastewater
$3.1 billion total wastewater need
Dams
195 high hazard dams
Levees
1,593 miles of levees protect $53.1 billion of property.
Roads
55% of roads are in poor or fair condition
IIJA Grants
for improvements to McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
for Connect Conway greenway + environmental upgrades
for Narrows Dam at Lake Greeson in Murfreesboro
for North Little Rock Municipal Airport
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