Western Pennsylvania Water Co. v. Commonwealth

COLINS, Judge.

Western Pennsylvania Water Company (WPW) petitions for review of an order of the Environmental Hearing Board (Board) dated August 25, 1988 which denied the Department of Environmental Resources’ (DER) Motion for Summary Judgment and denied WPW’s appeal from DER’s order of September 13, 1988.

WPW is a Pennsylvania corporation which sells drinking water to customers in Washington County. In May, 1983, WPW acquired a twenty-foot wide permanent easement and right-of-way across the property of Leah Bellaire in order to extend its distribution system in McDonald Borough, Washington…