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UPDATE: Jury returns verdict on water wars case
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Frontier Drive, across the top of the Lakeview Estates dam walls, was closed after the county feared the earthen dam walls were weakening. One of the disputed issues in the case was the effect of the county dumping materials to shore up the wall. - photo by Michelle Kim
IN BRIEF: The verdict is in and PoyntSource Soutions, Inc. will not receive the lower water rate from the county it was seeking but will receive money for damages and takings to their property from the county dumping rocks and debris on the side of the dam in Lakeview Estates. After deliberating for about three hours in Rockdale County Superior Court on Monday afternoon, the jury in the lawsuit and counter lawsuit between Rockdale County and PoyntSource Solutions, Inc. found in favor of the county's claim that it did not need to give the same rate to PoyntSource, a private water system that