June 20, 2025
Georgia's DeKalb County has again asked a federal judge for more time to come into compliance with a federal consent decree requiring it to upgrade its sewer systems, arguing that recent assessments of the project have made the decree's timeline "substantially more onerous."
September 22, 2021
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday extended the deadline for a metropolitan Atlanta county to fix its problematic sewage system, but ordered it to pay about $1 million in civil penalties for failing to meet the original timeline in a consent decree with state and federal regulators.