# LEHIGH ELEC & ENGINEERING CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1981 · — · Dismissed By Tribunal
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9062`
- **Case Number:** 03-1981-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Dismissed By Tribunal
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JOSEPH J. MENN, JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEHIGH ELEC & ENG CO, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- MARY R. MENN, ESTATE OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

LEHIGH ELEC & ENGINEERING CO., INC. - OLD FORGE, PA FILED    CIVIL ACTION #81-0460, US DIST CT FOR THE MID DIST OF PA     AS PART OF ITS ELECT EQUIPMNT SERVICING OPERATION,           DEFENDANT LEHIGH MAINTAINS A STORAGE & DISPOSAL              FACILITY IN OLD FORGE, PA. PCB'S HAVE BEEN DRAINED OR        SPILLED FROM TRANSFORMERS & CAPACITORS STORED ON SITE,       CONTAMINATING THE SOIL & THREATENING THE ADJACENT            LACKAWANN RIVER. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT THE CO'S OLD     FORGE SITE IS UNDIKED & WAS UNFENCED, & THAT MANY OF         THE TRANSFORMERS & CAPACITORS STORED THERE ARE PARTIALLY     OR COMPLETELY FILLED W/PCB'S. SAMPLING OF THE CONTENTS OF    SOME OF THE EQUIPMNT REV'LED PCB CONCENTRATIONS OF UP        TO 563000 PRTS/MIL. PCB'S WERE ALSO DETECTED IN THE SOIL     AT CONCENTRAT'NS RANGING FROM 64-5, 250 PPM. A FENCE WAS     ERECTED BY EPA, USING SEC 104 CWA FUNDS IN SPRING OF         1981. THE FACILITY IS ON THE BANK OF THE LACKAWANNA          RIVER, A NAVIGABLE WTRWY ALSO USED FOR RECREATION. NO        BARRIER EXISTS BETWEEN THE SITE & THE RIVER TO PREVENT       PCB MIGRATION. SOIL TESTING OF THE RIVERBANK REVEALED        PCB CONCENTRT'NS OF 278 PPM. THE SUIT ALLEGES THAT           PCB'S ARE LIKELY TO MIGRATE INTO THE RIVER IN QUANTITIES     THAT POSE A THREAT TO HLTH & THE ENVIRONMENT. EPA            OBTAINED A WARRANT TO GAIN TEMPORARY ACCESS TO THE SITE      TO MORE EXTENSIVELY SAMPLE SOIL CONTAMINAT'N & TO REMOVE     CONTAMINATED SAND ON THE RIVERBANK. 

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