Chester Water Cleared for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Appeal

The Chester Water Authority can move forward with an appeal that it hopes will block the city of Chester, Pa., from selling water assets to fund a bankruptcy plan.

Judge Ashely M. Chan of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania indicated during a Wednesday hearing that she would approve an agreement between the city and the water authority to allow the appeal to proceed.

The CWA has argued that the city can’t force a sale, but the city in 2021 got a favorable ruling from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, which cleared the way for the city ...