UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION; Sea-Port Services, Ltd., formerly Sealand, Ltd.; Oil Industries, Ltd.; Wayne Hawkins; Chem Clear, Inc.; Coopers Creek Chemical Corporation; Penn Fuel Gas, Inc.; Philadelphia Gas Works; Public Service Electric and Gas Company; and National Industrial Services, Inc., f/k/a Maine Coastal Service, Defendants.
PENN FUEL GAS, INC.; Consolidated Rail Corporation; Chem Clear, Inc.; Coopers Creek Chemical Corporation; Philadelphia Gas Works; Public Service Electric and Gas Company; and Sea-Port Services, Ltd., formerly Sealand, Ltd., Third-Party Plaintiffs,
v.
EKLOF MARINE CORPORATION; Burke-Parsons-Bowlby Corporation; A.M. Lavin Machine Works, Inc.; and Robert Zeigler, d/b/a American Reclamation Refining Company, Third-Party Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Delaware.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 2, 1990.
February 2, 1990.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William C. Carpenter, Jr., U.S. Atty., and Richard G. Andrews, First Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del. (Michael Goodstein, Dept. of Justice, of counsel), Washington, D.C., for U.S.
Somers S. Price, Jr. of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del. (Abbi L. Cohen of Dechert, Price, Rhoades, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for Consolidated Rail Corp.
Wayne Hawkins, Wilmington, Del., pro se.
Stephen E. Herrmann of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del. (Thomas W. Scott of Killian & Gephart, Harrisburg, Pa., of counsel), for Chem Clear, Inc.
Henry E. Gallagher of Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz, Wilmington, Del., for Coopers Creek Chemical Corp.
C. Scott Reese of Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, Del. (Robert A. Swift of Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for Penn Fuel Gas, Inc.
Judith N. Renzulli of Duane, Morris & Hecksher, Wilmington, Del. (John W. Walker of Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for Philadelphia Gas Works.
William D. Johnston of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Del. (Maureen Vaskis, Newark, N.J., of counsel), for Public Service Elec. and Gas Co.
Douglas B. Catts of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, Del., for U.S. Printing Ink Corp.
Beth H. Christman of Casarino, Christman & Shalk, Wilmington, Del. (John T. Ward and Thomas J. Minton of Quinn, Ward & Kershaw, Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for Eklof Marine Corp.
William L. Garrett, Jr. of O'Donnell & Garrett, Wilmington, Del. (Robert G. McLusky of Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, Charleston, W.Va., of counsel), for Burke-Parsons-Bowlby Corp.
Joseph W. Weik of Czajkowski, Weik & Knepper, Wilmington, Del. (Lewis Kates of Kates & Mozzocone, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for A.M. Lavin Mach. Works, Inc.
Robert J. Katzenstein of Lassen, Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, Del. (Herbert Pressman of Pressman & Pressman, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for Robert J. Zeigler.
United States District Court, D. Delaware.
OPINION
MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Senior District Judge.
In 1985, the United States of America brought this action under sections 104(a) and (b) and 107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9604(a) and (b) and 9607(a), for reimbursement of costs incurred in response to the alleged release of hazardous substances from the Sealand, Ltd. site in Mount Pleasant, Delaware ("the Sealand site...
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