The mother of the victim has filed a wrongful death suit against the town of Rocky Mount, Va.

Linda Underwood alleges in a lawsuit filed July 25 in Franklin Couny Circuit Court the town "in a careless, reckless and negligent manner, with full knowledge of the dangers to users of the Blackwater River, failed to implement measures which would abate the dangers inherent in a low head dam and failed to warn users of the dangers."

Soon after her daughters death, the town put rocks around the base of the dam to interrupt the hydraulic cycle that pulled, Jacqueline Underwood Mason and Chris Odum, six weeks earlier - underwater and drowned them. Signs and an area to take out a canoe and walk around the dam to calmer waters also were installed.

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