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County adds incentives for industry expansion bid
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Negotiations are heating up as Conyers and Covington bid to land an unnamed existing industry, which is looking to consolidate its operations to one location. Rockdale County agreed to make sewer lines more available and more accurately monitor wastewater usage to help save the industry money, in addition to more than $4.1 million in incentives already offered by the city of Conyers. Glenn Sears, executive director of the Conyers-Rockdale Economic Development Council, said the county had agreed to monitor both the wastewater discharge and water consumption of the existing industry, instead of