Editing Bella Vista, Arkansas (section)

==Infrastructure==
===Electricity===
[[Carroll Electric Cooperative]] provides electricity for Bella Vista residents.

===Public safety===
[[File:New fire station in Bella Vista AR trafalgar.jpg|thumb|left|Fire station off Trafalgar Road]]
The [[Bella Vista Fire Department]] is a career fire department with four fully staffed fire stations. There are three shifts with 21 career firefighters on each shift. The fire department also provides [[Advanced Life Support]] paramedic service to the city with six ambulances. In 2010, the department took control over the Bella Vista Ambulance Services.

===Transportation===
[[File:U.S. Route 71 at Highway 340 junction, Bella Vista, Arkansas.jpg|thumb|Bella Vista Way (US 71) at the Lancashire Boulevard (AR 340) exit in Bella Vista]]
The final segment of [[Interstate 49]] (I-49), which runs from [[Fort Smith, Arkansas]] to [[Kansas City, Missouri]], was completed around Bella Vista on October 1, 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bellavistaarkansas.org/bella-vista-bypass.html |title=Bella Vista Bypass Interstate 49 bypassing Bella Vista in Northwest Arkansas |access-date=December 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221174332/http://bellavistaarkansas.org/bella-vista-bypass.html |archive-date=December 21, 2013 }}</ref> The new route bypassed Bella Vista to the south and west, removing through traffic from [[U.S. Route 71 in Arkansas|Highway 71]], which had seen increasing traffic congestion over the decades. I-49 has four exits providing access to Bella Vista: US 71 (Bella Vista Way), two exits with [[Arkansas Highway 72|Highway 72]], and Benton County Road 34 (CR 34, Rocky Dell Hollow Road).

Bella Vista Way is a four-lane [[controlled access]] divided highway that bisects the city from north to south. Two [[List of state highways in Arkansas|Arkansas state highways]] cross Bella Vista: [[Arkansas Highway 279|Highway 279]] (Forest Hills Boulevard) runs north-south from [[Gravette, Arkansas|Gravette]] to [[Missouri]], and [[Arkansas Highway 340|Highway 340]] (Lancashire Boulevard) from east to west from Highway 279 to Missouri. Almost all of the remaining street network in Bella Vista is laid out using a [[street hierarchy]] typical of large [[residential subdivision]]s, with hundreds of [[Dead end (street)|cul-de-sac streets]].<ref>{{ cite map |title= Map of Bella Vista, Benton County, Arkansas |publisher= Arkansas Department of Transportation |location= Little Rock |date= November 2021 |author=Transportation Planning and Policy Division |url= https://www.ardot.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bellavista_city.pdf |access-date= February 27, 2022}}</ref>

===Solid waste===
The City of Bella Vista contracts with Republic Services for trash collection. There also are two semi-annual pick ups of large items.

====Stump Dump Fire of 2018====
A dump site had begun an underground fire in August 2018. In December 2018, health officials declared the air within a half-mile radius around the property was at unhealthy levels on one occasion. An emergency declaration was made by Gov. [[Asa Hutchinson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/special-report-the-science-behind-the-stump-dump/|title = SPECIAL REPORT: The science behind the Bella Vista stump dump|date=July 22, 2019}}</ref> The Bella Vista POA took over this project in early May 2019 and had the fire extinguished in less than 30 days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://5newsonline.com/2019/07/16/bella-vista-poa-talks-about-phase-two-after-former-stump-dump-fire-is-out/|title = Bella Vista POA Talks About Phase Two After Former Stump Dump Fire is Out| date=July 16, 2019 }}</ref>

===Water and wastewater===
The POA provides water service to Bella Vista residents. Village Waste Water provides [[Sanitary sewer|sewer]] service to portions of Bella Vista.