A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court this year will look at a critical issue for people who deal with wastewater. That issue is whether regulations can be applied to groundwater carrying pollution from a point source.
The case is County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al., and it came about because Maui County for years has pumped treated municipal wastewater into injection wells that carry it deep under the ground — or so everyone said. In 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded a tracer dye study that found wastewater from the wells flowing into groundwater and
