YORK COUNTY, Pa. — A legal team and investigators joined cleanup crews at J&K Salvage Thursday, collecting water samples and reviewing the business’ stormwater controls. The evidence is for ongoing litigation between The Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association and J&K Salvage.
According to court documents, the business had been dumping stormwater with high levels of metals like aluminum, boron, arsenic and nickel into tributaries of the Susquehanna River without a permit since Nov. 30, 2024.
This litigation came over a year before a massive fire caused oil from the business to seep into waterways last week…