![]() ![]() ![]() Study commissioner Tina Gallagher asked the board a question she had heard during a Pennsylvania Utility Commission hearing on another musicality’s sale: “Who’s responsibility is it to communicate to other townships’ residents, outside of Towamencin’s bordures, that receive sewer service from the Towamencin wastewater facility?”īoard chairman Chuck Wilson replied, “The answer to that is PA American Water: that’s one of the next steps in the PUC approval process. Four of the five supervisors voted in May 2022 to sell the sewer system, after months of strong resident opposition to doing so, and those residents subsequently mobilized to win ballot victories approving a government study commission, which drafted the home rule charter that won voter approval in May 2023 and contains provisions meant to stop the sale.Īfter sale opponents celebrated “Charter Day” on July 1, several continued to aim at the supervisors for canceling a scheduled July 12 meeting and for their continued lack of responsiveness to sale opponents, announcing their plans to sue the board to ensure the sale is terminated.Īn online GoFundMe fundraiser meant to raise funds for that litigation has now exceeded an initial $5,000 goal, and Osei told the supervisors on Wednesday night that he’s been watching similar sewer sale cases across the state, and has a takeaway for the board. July 1 marked the start of a new phase in residents’ ongoing efforts to stop the sewer sale, as the date the township’s home rule charter went into effect. Communists from Philadelphia are literally building Soviet-style apartments in your backyards, as I speak,” said resident Kofi Osei, before adding a deadpan: “…that was a joke.” “Welcome to the People’s Republic of Towamencin. ![]() ![]() Residents continued to sound off this week against Towamencin supervisors and that group’s ongoing efforts to sell the township’s sewer system, in the first public meeting since the township’s new charter took effect. TOWAMENCIN - The first meeting of a new era looked and sounded … just like the prior ones. ![]()
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