LEAD HILL, Ark. – Circuit Court Judge Shawn Womack of Mountain Home, is threatening to have city officials sent to jail if they don’t repay the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority.
Judge Womack says they could be jailed if the city’s future payments are more than five days late.
The water authority filed a lawsuit against Lead Hill last fall after the city quit paying its bill and began drawing water from its own wells instead.
Lead Hill owes the company around 66-thousand dollars in outstanding bills. An attorney for Lead Hill says the city will appeal.