Sunoco agrees to extend public water to homes with tainted wells.
The Newtown Square-based company was moving rapidly Tuesday to arrange to extend Aqua Pennsylvania water service to an enclave in West Whiteland Township.
About a dozen customers said their water wells went bad after Sunoco began underground drilling in the area to construct its Mariner East 2 gas-liquids pipeline.
Sunoco supplied bottled water and put up several families in hotels after the problems were reported July 3.
Mariner East is Sunoco’s $2.5 billion project to deliver natural-gas liquids such as propane across Pennsylvania to its terminal in Marcus Hook.
Shields said the affected homes will be connected to temporary water supplies while it makes plans to convert the area to public water.
Some of the affected homes are along Township Line Road near an existing Aqua main and would require only a small service line to connect.
The contamination controversy is the latest point of contention for Sunoco’s project.
On Monday, another Chester County community, West Goshen Township, requested an emergency order to block Sunoco from constructing a valve station for Mariner East 2 at a location on Boot Road east of Route 202 that the township says violates a 2015 agreement.
It says the valve station should be located next to an existing site on Boot Road on the opposite side of Route 202, where Sunoco operates a pump station for its Mariner East 1 pipeline.