ANNOUNCEMENT May 12, 2022
Water Compliance Solutions, LLC has produced and released the attached 79-page report dated May 1, 2022 and titled “An exposé of MassDEP’s ineptitude, deception, and waste in oversight of Massachusetts’ drinking water systems including the remarkable case studies of Chester, Housatonic, Millville, and Monroe”.
The report provides observations regarding the performance of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s Drinking Water Program (MassDEP) in their duties enforcing the Safe Drinking Water Act in Massachusetts, and in particular how that performance has impacted small systems and towns. I have witnessed an alarming and repeated lack of technical competence, common sense, and integrity in MassDEP’s decisions and statements. Numerous examples are described of MassDEP rendering improper water treatment decisions, causing violations of public health regulations, deceiving the public regarding water quality, wasting extreme amounts of small systems’ money, and retaliating against the water professionals and communities who question their statements and decisions.