Department of Environmental Quality Engineering v. Cumberland Farms of Connecticut, Inc.

When the defendant Cumberland Farms of Connecticut, Inc. (Cumberland), failed to heed an enforcement *673order from the plaintiff Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) concerning Cumberland’s use of its land, see generally G. L. c. 131, § 40, as amended through St. 1979, c. 693, the DEQE brought an action in the Superior Court seeking injunctive relief. The land in question, known as the Great Cedar Swamp, is a broad wetland located along the coastal plain of southeastern Massachusetts in the towns of Halifax and Middleborough and consists of approximately 1,900 acres. At the…