Healer v. Department of Environmental Protection

This case arises from the grant of a groundwater discharge permit (permit) to the town of Falmouth (town) for the construction and operation of a wastewater treatment facility (treatment facility) and leach field.4 The plaintiffs are abutters to the site of the proposed treatment facility or the proposed leach field, and some or all of the plaintiffs rely on private water wells near the site of the proposed treatment facility or leach field as their sole source of drinking water. Acting on the plaintiffs’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, a judge in the Superior Court upheld the decision…