The Chester Water Authority is protesting plans to get Chester out of bankruptcy by selling water assets.
After 30 years of distress and $30 million in state aid, the sale of waterworks in 2025 is a final effort to end the Chester bankruptcy nightmare, writes Anthony R. Wood for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The city’s overwhelming debts, particularly to its pensioners, led Pennsylvania to officially declare Chester “distressed” back in 1995. It’s now in bankruptcy…