What about water quality?

To the Editor:

To date, the discussions of Aqua Pennsylvania’s attempt to take over water supply and sanitation operations now under Chester Water Authority (serving Swarthmore and other communities in Delaware and Chester counties) and Delcora (the organization dealing with wastewater in the region) have focused on the cost to ratepayers, not the quality of the product coming out of our faucets.

That appears to have been true of a recent debate between candidates for Delaware County Council, as reported in the Swarthmorean. But it’s time we started asking questions about product.

Aqua Pennsylvania is a component of Aqua America. Better Business Bureau gives Aqua America a D-rating, and of complaints they noted, about half had to do with product.

Will Richan
Chester