No Charges Against Falmouth Water Sup't

The Cape Cod Times is reporting that Falmouth Water Superintendent William Chapman won't face criminal charges after Chapman allegedly took unused chemicals from a town water treatment plant and gave them to a local cranberry grower for use in a bog. 

On January 2 of this year, a Falmouth town employee allegedly saw Chapman and another man loading large bags containing copper sulfate into a truck that was later traced to a local cranberry bog.

The employee reported what he saw to Assistant Town Manager Heather Harper, and Town Manager Julian Suso asked Falmouth Police to investigate the incident.

That 16-page police report, the result of a three-week investigation, called the event involving Chapman and the copper sulfate a "misunderstanding." The report was presented to Falmouth Clerk Magistrate Edward Teague yesterday, who decided not to take criminal action against Chapman.  

Falmouth's Department of Public Works Director Raymond Jack told police that Chapman's decision to give the chemicals away, rather than disposing them at a potential high cost to the town, was "an error in judgement."

Chapman, who earned an annual salary of $84,864, resigned from his position last month. 

Read the full Cape Cod Times story here.