City of Quincy v. Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

The defendant, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (authority), is responsible for providing sewage collection services to communities in the metropolitan Boston area, including the cities of Quincy and Boston.2 The city of Quincy commenced this action in the Superior Court seeking a declaration pursuant to G. L. c. 231A (1994 ed.), that the authority’s annual sewer assessments for fiscal years 1985 through 1994, which were calculated based on the so-called population and population-equivalent methodology, were in violation of various provisions of St. 1984, c. 372, the authority’s…