The Massachusetts Land Court has held that an owner can acquire the right to collect and discharge surface water onto neighboring land by prescription if this continues without permission by the servient estate owner and the other requirements for prescriptive easements are met. JPM Dev., LLC v. Nemetz, 2018 WL 4892726 (Mass. Land Ct. 2018). However, in a companion case, it emphasized that the amount of discharge is set by the historic use throughout the prescription period and any increase in that use is a trepass. Putney v. O'Brien, 2018 WL 6183338 (Mass. Land Ct. 2018).