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Barnstable’s sewage treatment plant is at the center of a new lawsuit filed by a Boston-based environmental group.
The Conservation Law Foundation, which filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston, said that the facility in Hyannis is polluting Lewis Bay with nutrients such as nitrogen that degrade water quality and cause serious algae outbreaks.
“It doesn t really do the job,” Chris Kilian, Vice President of Strategic Litigation at CLF, said of the facility. “It operates like a giant septic system right now in the sense that unlike lots of other wastewater treatment facilities, the Hyannis facility releases its effluent into sand beds.” That effluent, he said, makes its way through the Cape’s sandy soil into the watershed.
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BARNSTABLE – Town officials fired back at the Conservation Law Foundation for a lawsuit filed late Tuesday over the specificity of the town s wastewater plan and permitting for its municipal wastewater treatment plant.
The lawsuit claims that the town s wastewater plan lacked specificity in key areas, and that the plant was polluting Lewis Bay and needed a stronger federal permit.
“A lot of the things they are saying are baseless,” Department of Public Works Director Daniel Santos said Thursday.
Santos said development of Barnstable’s comprehensive wastewater treatment plan has been a primary focus for himself, his department and the town for the past six years. The estimated $1.4 billion plan will be phased in over 30 years.
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The plaintiff, the Conservation Law Foundation, argued the plant s levels of nitrogen discharge are too high, and that waste water is traveling underground into Lewis Bay. (Shutterstock)
BARNSTABLE, MA An environmental group sued the Town of Barnstable Tuesday in federal court, arguing the town s water pollution control facility is polluting Lewis Bay and in violation of the federal Clean Water Act.
The plaintiff, the Conservation Law Foundation, argued the plant s levels of nitrogen discharge are too high, and that waste water is traveling underground into Lewis Bay. According to the Foundation, the discharge is feeding large algae blooms which are lowering water quality and harming marine life.