# KESSLER, STANLEY, COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9037`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $175K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BEATRICE KLEVAN (complaint) (settlement)
- MORTON KLEVAN (complaint) (settlement)
- SAUL, JEFFREY
- STANLEY KESSLER (complaint) (settlement)
- STANLEY KESSLER & CO, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- THELMA KESSLER (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

STANLEY KESSLER CO, INC., ET AL., KING OF PRUSSIA, PA        FILED 9/2/80, CIVIL ACTION #80-3438, US DIST CT FOR THE      EAST DIST OF PA.  KESSLER IS A WELDING ROD & WIRE            MANUFACTURING FACILITY LOCATED IN KING OF PRUSSIA, PA.       ACCRDNG TO THE COMPLAINT, VOC'S, PRIMARILY TCE, USED IN      MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE             FACILITY & ARE MIGRATING INTO & CONTAMINATING                UNDERLYING GRNDWTR, & HAVE ENTERED & ARE LIKELY TO CON-      TINUE TO ENTER THE UPPER MERION RESERVOIR, A PUBLIC WATER    SUPPLY SERVING APPROX 800000 PEOPLE. AN AQUIFER KNOWN AS     THE CONESTOGA FORMATION IS PARTIALLY LOCATED BENEATH THE     SITE, AT AN APPROX DEPTH OF 65 FT. GRNDWTR IN THE AQUIFER    MIGRATES TOWARDS THE RESEVOIR. KESSLER USES ORGANIC          SOLVNTS TO DEGREASE WELDING WIRE DURING PRODUCTION.          BEGINNING ABOUT 1960 & CONTINUING UNTIL 1980, SOLVENTS       ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN DISPOSED OF THRU FLR DRAINS IN      THE FACILITY WHICH DISCHARGE INTO 2 UNDERGRND TANKS.         ACCRDNG TO THE COMPLAINT, THE 1000 GAL & 500 GAL TANKS       WERE BUILT TO ALLOW THEIR CONTENTS TO LEAK INTO THE          GRND. TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE), AN ORGANIC CHEM THAT'S A      KNOWN CARCINOGEN;TETRAOGEN & MUTAGEN, HAS BEEN DETECTED      IN LARGE QUANTITES IN THE 1000 GAL TANK, IN THE GRNDWTR      BENEATH THE FACILITY, & IN THE RESERVOIR.                       THE SITE WAS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST       IN SEPTEMBER 1983. ON 5/3/84, ORDER 

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