Aqua America Pennsylvania is $3 million closer to owning Lower Makefield s sewer system in a $53 million purchase.
The down payment is expected to help keep the township s 2021 budget stable as the sale awaits approval by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission sometime next year.
“This good-faith deposit will help Lower Makefield Township meet its 2021 budget obligations while the transaction makes its way through the regulatory approval process with the (commission), Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater President Marc Lucca said last week.
Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater is a subsidiary of Aqua America Pennsylvania.
Township officials voted 3-1 in August to approve the sale to help pay off a $17.8 million debt related to the township-owned golf course and raise Lower Makefield s Moody s bond rating that was downgraded in 2019.
Currently, almost one million Pennsylvania residents lack access to reliable high-speed internet access, according to the FCC.
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA Today, Governor Wolf announced that more than 327,000 Pennsylvania residents will get access to high-speed internet through the Federal Communications Commission s (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction.
Thirteen internet providers in the state successfully bid in the auction and will now provide high-speed internet access in locations across the state that are underserved or do not have access to broadband that meets the current federal standards.
Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater announced today it has completed a good-faith payment of $3 million toward the purchase of the municipal wastewater system of Lower Makefield Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The
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During a global pandemic, people in smaller communities are at greater risk of having no water at all in their homes if they canât pay their bills.
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Detroit water shutoff protests, 2014. The city announced a shutoff moratorium during the pandemic, but some cities and towns plan to disconnect water for nonpayment.
Like many small towns in pandemic America, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, is at rock bottom. The mill city near Pittsburgh never regained its footing after the collapse of the steel industry. Its 6,000 residents, mostly poor and Black, have been left behind in jobs, education, and medical care. COVID-19 has brought with it more paralysis. Duquesneâs only grocery store has closed. There are no doctors with offices within the city limits. And now water bills, huge ones, have started going out to residents again after an early-spring pause.
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