# METAL BANK OF AMERICA
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9029`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- IRVIN R. SCHORSCH, JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- JOHN B. SCHORSCH (complaint) (settlement)
- METAL BANK OF AMERICA (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

UNION CORP, METAL BANK OF AMER., PHILADELPHIA, PA, FILED     4/23/80, CIVIL ACTION #80-1589, US DIST CT FOR THE           EASTERN DISTRICT OF PA. UNION CORP & METAL BANK OWN &        OPERATE A DISPOSAL SITE ON THE BANK OF THE DELAWARE RIVER    ON COTTMAN AVE IN PHILA. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT THE      DEFENDANTS USED THE SITE TO DRAIN TRANSFORMERS CONTAINING    PCB CONTAMINATED OIL, & SORTED THE WASTE OIL ON-SITE.        ACCRDING TO THE COMPLAINT, SOIL, GRNWTR, & SURFACE WTR       CONTAMINATIONN BY PCB'S HAS RESULTED FROM THE DEFENDANT'S    STORAGE ACTIVITIES.  COMPLAINT ASSERTS THAT EMPLOYEES OF     THE DEFENDANTS DRAINED THE TRANSFORMERS OF OIL & PCB         CONTENTS INTO AN UNDERGRND STORAGE TANK. THE PCB'S WERE      ALLOWED TO LEAK FROM THE TANK INTO A LAYER OF FILL WHICH     HAD BEEN PLACED ON THE SITE.  ACCRDNG TO THE COMPLAINT,      THERE ARE NOW POOLS OF OIL & PCBS IN THE SOIL BENEATH THE    SITE. AS A RESULT, THE COMPLAINT ASSERTS, THE GRNDWTR        UNDER THE SITE HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED W/ THE PCB'S. THE       SUIT ALLEGES THAT PCB'S ARE IN OIL & WATER LAYERS UNDER      THE SITE.                                                    IN 1980, THE UNITED STATES FILED A COMPLAINT, REFERENCED     ABOVE, AGAINST THE SITE OWNERS UNDER RCRA, TSCA AND THE      REFUSE ACT.  IN AUGUST 1983, THE UNITED STATES AND METAL     BANK SIGNED A STIPULATION, ENTERED BY THE COURT IN DECEMBER  1983, THAT REQUIRED METAL BANK TO INSTALL AND OPERATE        A GROUNDWATER RECOVERY AND TREATMENT

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