We take due diligence seriously. Our customers and communities demand no less. As a public authority under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we are committed to providing the resident and business ratepayers of Newtown Borough and Township with the most cost-effective and safest solutions for wastewater treatment services, mindful of the increasing needs of our community as well as the more demanding legal framework in which we operate. Based on the information we know from Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority, with which we are a customer and with Philadelphia Water Department (the treatment facility currently used for all waste generated by BCWSA’s Bucks County Regional System, including this Authority), significant rate hikes are likely forthcoming from both entities that would adversely impact the Authority and its ratepayers.

We decided that it was important to understand all our options going forward to protect our customers from the long-term impact of rate inflation beyond our control. We asked our engineers to look into the feasibility of constructing our own local wastewater treatment facilities to determine if that would enable us to better control costs, better maintain the system, and provide state-of-the-art technology for the future, when more stringent standards would be mandated to protect the environment.

Toward that end, we retained expert assistance from wastewater management experts, financial consultants, and have undertaken initial studies in these areas to determine whether it would be the right decision to move forward on such a plan. By this we mean, would it be both economically and environmentally sound to decide to build such a plant?

We do not have all those studies/reports complete and it will be months before we do, likely toward the end of 2025. We will make those documents public once we have analyzed them.

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