{"id":245434,"date":"2026-07-17T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:42:14","slug":"regulators-approve-smaller-rate-hike-for-pennsylvania-american-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245434\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulators approve smaller rate hike for Pennsylvania American Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM) \u2014 If you have Pennsylvania American Water, your bill won&#8217;t be going up as much as the company had initially sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Mechanicsburg-based company originally sought a 15% increase of their water rates to bring in an additional $143.4 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved a 4.75% increase, or $45.2 million Thursday by a 4-1 vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania American Water serves about 810,000 customers in 38 counties and had last sought a rate increase in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices<\/a><a data-ylk=\"slk:, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The additional revenue, the company said, will be used to support critical infrastructure improvements including replacing aging infrastructure, expanding PFAS treatment, and continuing efforts to eliminate lead service lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM) \u2014 If you have Pennsylvania American Water, your bill won&#8217;t be going up as much as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,9964],"class_list":["post-245434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-rate-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}