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ATLANTA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The water began running again Friday at a historically black college in Atlanta after Morris Brown College paid $100,000 to the city toward its bill.
Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk said at a hearing Friday morning he was giving the college one final chance. The college owed the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management $380,000, with some of the debt dating back four years.
The college's water was shut off Dec. 12, just after the start of the holiday break, when it failed to keep up with a payment plan. Newkirk ordered service restored if the college paid $100,000 by the end of the day, and ordered officials to make another $214,000 payment by Feb. 14.
Stanley J. Pritchett Sr., the school's acting president, said he expects Morris Brown to meet the deadline. He said the college has raised $115,000 in a few days, mostly from a rally last weekend, and plans another one Saturday.
"It's about the life of a college that's been here for 127-plus years," Pritchett said. "Even in the face of adversity, we will rise above."
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