{"id":94078,"date":"2026-01-22T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94078\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:45:10","slug":"chester-water-authority-cant-be-seized-by-chester-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94078\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester Water Authority can\u2019t be seized by Chester, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>After a long-standing back and forth, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the city of Chester does not have the \u201cunilateral authority\u201d to seize the assets of the <a href=\"https:\/\/chesterwater.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chester Water Authority<\/a>, or CWA.\n<\/p>\n<p>Chester\u2019s state-appointed receiver sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/chester-receiver-water-assets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take back the assets against the authority\u2019s will and monetize them<\/a> to rescue the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/chester-bankruptcy-receiver\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bankrupt<\/a> city\u2019s finances.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s decision is a major setback for the receiver\u2019s efforts \u2014 and a win for the Chester Water Authority.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision draws a clear line between public ownership and privatization,\u201d CWA Board Chair Brandon Noel said in a statement. \u201cThe Court sided with everyday residents who drink CWA water and affirmed that the authority belongs to its customers\u2014not to a receiver, politicians, or private interests.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[211,46224,212,28,30,29,8109],"class_list":["post-94078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chester","tag-chester-water-authority","tag-delaware-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94078","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=94078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}