UPDATE: Rainsville Mayor Roger Lingerfelt said one employee is suspended without pay pending the outcome of this investigation.
He said he received a call from the sheriff’s office at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, saying they needed access to the treatment plant.
Part of what the DeKalb County Sheriff s Office described as an illegal winery that was discovered at the Rainsville Waste Water Treatment Plant on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Courtesy: DCSO) The wastewater treatment plant is one of those things that you go down there and you see most of it, but you don t see every little corner, and this was off in an area where we never did go, said Rodger Lingerfelt, City of Rainsville Mayor.