Legal Opinion
Friends & Fishers of Edgartown Great Pond, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Protection
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 1, 2006PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
The individual plaintiffs are members of two citizen groups formed to contest the grant of a groundwater discharge permit to the Edgartown Wastewater Commission (commission) in 1999, for the operation of a municipal wastewater treatment plant (plant or facility). A judge in the Superior Court affirmed the decision of the Commissioner (commissioner) of the Department of Environmental Protection (department) granting the groundwater discharge permit to the commission. We transferred this case from the Appeals Court on our own motion to determine whether the department erred in granting the…
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