The Associated Press
De QUEEN, Ark. — The De Queen City Council has reduced what it charges the Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant for water by more than $100,000 in an effort help the company and keep the plant in the southwest Arkansas city.
The council's vote to charge the company 96-cents per 1,000 gallons of water will reduce the water bill by an estimated $102,000 from its 2010 payments of about $613,000.
Mayor Bill Ray McKelvy told the Texarkana Gazette that the city's water department ended 2010 with a surplus of $372. . .
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