The Center Township supervisors continue to request more information about the sale of the Butler Area Sewer Authority to Pennsylvania American Water Company in their collective opposition to the transaction.

Bob Sloan, Chairman of the Center Township Board of Supervisors, said the supervisors voted at a meeting to send a letter to the Public Utilities commission to attempt to stop the sale. Despite a number of BASA customers residing in Center Township, it does not have representation on the BASA board, and administrators had no say in the sale.

“It does impact us; it might be we’re in the neighborhood of 20% of their revenue,” Sloan said. “We have written letters to BASA to try to have a say in the authority.”

BASA’s five-man board of directors voted unanimously at their October meeting to approve a resolution to accept the water company’s $231.5 million offer for the authority, its treatment plant and all other assets, infrastructure and equipment. The money earned from the sale will be split between Butler, which has three members on the BASA board, and Butler Township, which has two members on the board.

The sale is currently being reviewed by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for its approval.

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