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Bucks County Machine Shop and its Former General Manager Sentenced for Discharging Pollutants into Public Sewer System

Release Date: 6/7/2001
Contact Information: Donna Heron, (215) 814-5113

Donna Heron, (215) 814-5113

PHILADELPHIA – KAM Industries, Inc., formerly of Titus Avenue in Warrington, Pa., and the company’s former general manager, Robert Perkins, were sentenced June 6 in Eastern District Court for criminal violations of the Clean Water Act.

Perkins, a resident of Horsham, Pa., had pleaded guilty in March 2001 to falsely stating on a permit application that no chemical compounds containing metals or inorganics would be discharged into the Warminster Publicly-Owned Treatment Works, when, in fact, he knew that these types of pollutants would be discharged.

Through its attorney, KAM Industries, a machine shop manufacturing and processing machine parts – primarily of steel and aluminum – also pleaded guilty to discharging pollutants into the public sewer system between December 1, 1998 and May, 1999.

U.S. District Judge John Padova sentenced KAM Industries to a $76,000 fine and five years probation.. The company previously paid $24,000 in restitution and a $10,000 fine to the Warminister Township Municipal Authority. Perkins was sentenced to a $5,000 fine, ten months of home confinement, 200 hours of community service, and five years probation.

The investigation was conducted by EPA’s criminal investigation division, with assistance from the Warminster Township Municipal Authority.