Sanitary Water Board of Commonwealth v. Wilkes-Barre

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

The basic question here is whether the City of Wilkes-Barre may continue to discharge its untreated sewage into the Susquehanna Biver or whether it must construct a sewage treatment works.

The case comes before us on appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County dismissing an appeal from the adjudication of the Sanitary Water Board ordering the City of Wilkes-Barre to discontinue its discharge of untreated sewage into the river and to take immediate steps for the construction of sewage treatment works.

There was a time when the streams of this…