Commonwealth v. Dresser Manufacturing Co.

BROUGHTON, Chairman of the Board,

This is a civil penalties case brought by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources (hereinafter “department”) against Dresser Manufacturing Division of Dresser Industries, Inc. (hereinafter “Dresser”), based on alleged discharges of oil to an unnamed tributary to Marsh Creek, a tributary of Pine Creek, from defendant’s plant in Delmar Township near Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa. (hereinafter “Wellsboro Plant”).

Dresser makes pipe fittings at its Wellsboro plant. In the course of a number of different operations, various kinds of oil…