Soaring Vista Properties, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners

Soaring Vista Properties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wheelabrator Water Technologies, owns a 425.67-acre working farm in Queen Anne’s County, known as Soaring Vista farm. Wheelabrator has fertilized the crops on this land with biosolids, or “sludge,” since 1990. The treated sludge is transported to the farm from wastewater treatment plants owned by Wheelabrator throughout the State. Although the sludge is generated daily, in certain weather conditions it cannot be applied to the land. In order to ease its burden of sludge transportation and application, Wheelabrator proposed the…