# WARD-BURNS-DRACUP  YOUNGSVILLE
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9051`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0033
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $969K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- BURNS, ROBERT (complaint) (settlement)
- DANIEL DRACUP & CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- DRACUP, CHARLOTTE (complaint) (settlement)
- DRACUP, DANIEL (complaint) (settlement)
- WARD TRANSFORMER INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WARD, ROBERT W., JR. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ROBERT. J. BURNS; DANIEL DRACUP; ROBERT E. WARD JR., ET      AL. -YOUNGSVILLE, PA. FILED 10/3/80, CIVIL ACTION            #80-1424.  U.S.DIST. COURT FOR THE W DIST.. OF PA. BURNS     AGREED TO REMOVE FOR WARD BARRELS OF PCB OIL STORED AT       DRACUP'S WAREHOUSE IN YOUNGSVILLE, PA. PCB OIL STORED        AT THE YOUNGSTOWN SITE CONTAMINATED SOIL & THREATENED TO     CONTAMINATE SURFACEWTR & GRNDWTR IN POXIMITY TO DRINKING     WTR. WARD TRANSFORMER CO, INC HAS BEEN BUYING, SELLING &     REBUILDING USED ELEC. TRANSFORMERS IN THE EASTERN U.S.       SINCE 1965. THE CO. DRAINED PCB CONTAMINATED FLUID FROM      THE TRANSFORMERS & STORES IT IN TANKS & 55 GAL DRUMS AT      ITS RALEIGH, N.C. FACILITY. IN EARLY 1978, WARD ENTERED      INTO AN ORAL AGREEMENT WITH BURNS ON BEHALF OF WARD          TRANSFORMER CO. FOR THE REMOVAL BY BURNS OF 32,560           GALLONS OF PCB FLUID FROM WARD TRANSFORMER. BURNS &          DRACUP REMOVED THE DRUMS & STORED THEM IN A WAREHOUSE ON     DRACUP'S PROPERTY. THE WAREHOUSE IS LOCATED APPROX. 150      YDS FROM THE YOUNGSVILLE MUNICIPAL BLD WHICH HOUSED THE      WATER WELLS THAT PROVIDE THE SOLE WATER SUPPLY FOR THE       2200 RES. OF YOUNGSVILLE. IT IS ALSO APPROX. 1200 FT E       OF BROKENSTRAW CREEK.  THE CREEK FLOWS INTO THE ALLEGHENY    RIVER & IS A TROUT FISHERY. ON MARCH 9, 1979, THE U.S.       FILED A CIVIL ACTION UNDER THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL      ACT TO COMPEL BURNS, DRACUP & CO. TO COMPLY WITH THE PCB     REGULATIONS REGARDING DRUM STORAGE. 

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