Baldwin County Sewer Service has taken its years-long battle with the city of Gulf Shores over its treatment plant in Fort Morgan to court, though it’s not clear if the court will be able to intervene.

“I’m almost livid that [Baldwin County Sewer Service] does not care about people,” Dennis Hatfield, president of the Little Lagoon Preservation Society, an environmental watchdog group, says. “They built the sludge lagoon adjacent to homeowners.”