Wilbros Case Back into Court in Toccoa Today

The Wilbros civil case in Stephens County Superior Court will be back in a Toccoa courtroom later today.

Judge Robert Adamson will hear from both sides in the case at a hearing today at 9:30 a.m. in the Stephens County Government Building in downtown Toccoa.

According to Stephens County Attorney Brian Ranck, the judge will hear any pending motions in the case and also review his emergency contempt order from February 2014.

Ranck said Adamson may look at potential violations of his February 2014 contempt order.

In that order, Adamson ruled that Wilbros was in contempt of both the various Georgia Environmental Protection Division orders in place, as well as his December 2012 court order in connection to a civil suit filed by Stephens County and others against Wilbros and associates over odor coming from the Rose Lane facility.

As a result, Adamson ordered Wilbros last year to cease and desist from releasing offensive mal odors at a distance of 1,000 feet or more that are detectable on a continuing basis or be forced to close.

The contempt order was the result of a hearing last year held to hear the plantiffs’ request for preliminary injunction to shut down the Wilbros facility pending a trial on the civil suit.

No action has been taken on the contempt order publicly since it was issued last year.