# FISCHER & PORTER CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9027`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FISCHER & PORTER CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FISCHER & PORTER CO, INC.-BUCKS COUNTY, PA FILED 10/8/80,    CIVIL ACTION #80-3900, US DIST CT FOR THE EASTERN DIST OF    PA, COMPANY IS ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATER FLOW &    INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL EQUIPMNT AT ITS BUCKS COUNTY,     PA PLNT. ACCRDNG TO THE COMPLAINT, THE COMPANY IS            RESPONSIBLE FOR ALLOWING INDUSTRIAL WSTES INCLUDING          TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) & PERCHLOROETHYLENE (PCE) TO         ENTER THE GRND & GRNDWTR BENEATH THE FACILITY & THE          PUBLIC SEWER SYS, CONTAMINATING CERTAIN OUTLYING DRINKING    WATER WELL. FROM 1947 TO THE PRESENT THE DEFENDANT           DISPOSED OF TCE & PCE ON ITS PROPERTY & INTO THE SEWER       CONNECTION, CAUSING CONTAMINAT'N OF THE GRNDWTR. TCE IS      USED PRIMARILY AS A METAL DEGREASING AGENT & IS A TOXIN &    CARCINOGEN. AS A TOXIN IT CAUSES LIVER & KIDNEY DAMAGE &     CENTRAL NERVOUS SYS DISORDERS. IT IS CARCINOGENIC AFTER      CHRONIC EXPOSURE. PCE IS USED PRIMARILY AS AN INDUSTRIAL     SOLVENT & AS A DEGREASER. IT IS TOXIC TO THE CENTRAL         NERVOUS SYSTEM & IS CARCINOGENIC & BIOACCUMULATIVE.  EPA     WATR QUALITY CRITERIA FOR HUMANS FOR BOTH CHEM IS ZERO.      MIGRATION OF CONTAMINANTS FROM SITE HAS ADVERSELY            AFFECTED DURING SEPT & OCT 1979, 7 PUBLIC DRINKING WTR       WELLS OF THE HATBORO WATER AUTHORITY WERE CLOSED. THE        TOWN CURRENTLY RELIES ON LMTD USE OF ALTERNATIVE WTR         SUPPLIES. NGHBRING WARMINSTER HEIGHTS CAN'T AFFORD           ALTERNATIVE WTR SUPPLIES.  THE TOWN'

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