Mecosta County, MI

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A settlement announced Tuesday marks the end of a long legal dispute between the producer of Ice Mountain bottled water and an environmental group that fought for years to prevent or reduce the company's withdrawal of groundwater in lower Michigan.

The deal allows Nestle Waters North America Inc.'s plant in Mecosta Township, in the west-central part of the peninsula, to pump an average of 218 gallons per minute -- or about 313,000 gallons per day -- with restrictions on spring and summer withdrawals.