Pioneer wins Court Battle

On Thursday, the Oconee Common Pleas Court ruled in favor of the Pioneer Rural Water District. Judge Lawton McIntosh ruled that the plaintiff’s equitable action for an injunction is denied. Oconee County along with the cities of Seneca and Westminster went to court to try to halt the construction of a treatment plant which, eventually, is to allow Pioneer to make its own water for distribution purposes. Seneca and Westminster have wholesale water arrangements with Pioneer, but they are jeopardized by Pioneer building its own treatment plant on SC 59.