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One aquifer. Seven towns. The record, assembled.
Public records, court documents, and campaign finance data on the water under southeastern Massachusetts, and the money moving above it.
The case files
All six cases →Ricketts Pond
A town sued its own sand miner and won a restoration order. The state then ordered a full environmental review.
Carver · PlymptonCourt-verified Federal notice servedThe Largest Landowner
A cease-and-desist in January. A federal Clean Water Act notice in June, naming four bog sites.
Carver · Wareham · PlymouthAgency + press verified Vote recorded 3-2The Waived Refusal
The town's own committee said buy the land. Two members with disclosed developer ties voted it away.
PlymouthPress-documented Monitoring gapThe Invisible Stack
The incinerator's dioxin and mercury appear in no continuous monitor and no public toxics database.
Rochester · WarehamEPA-database verified $33M and countingThe Water Bill
One town is spending $33 million to treat PFAS it did not create. No source defendant has been named.
Middleborough · CarverPublic record Permit denial upheldThe Decommissioning
A nuclear plant's owner, a discharge fight, and an $800 million trust fund under scrutiny.
PlymouthAgency-verifiedFollow the money
All trails →The One-Dollar Flip
How 33 acres of town land became a private sand mine, for a dollar.
One parcel produced a $1 public exit, a $3.45M private resale, and a mining operation the town would not police. Officials who serve the town also sit on the Foundation that profited. That is the structure this file exists to document.
Every step sourced (3)
- Plymouth County Registry of Deeds (recorded instruments)
- MA Secretary of Commonwealth corporate records
- Plymouth Independent coverage, 2024 to 2026
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