Landowners, sewer district disagree over clean water, treatment plant

With it's rolling hills, pasture land and namesake Blue Spring Creek, landowners along the creek's bank describe the area as a "pristine, primeval, eden place."

But those same landowners now fear the sanctity of cool-water creek is in jeopardy if plans for a wastewater treatment facility for the neighboring Rocky Mount Sewer District at the headwaters of the creek come to fruition.