When Phil Rosenzweig comes calling, municipalities and others really should listen. Just sayin’.
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My ballot has been received back to Chester County making me an official YES vote for two more supervisors in East Whiteland Township.
Don’t forget the ballot question when you vote, and please vote yes!
I don’t know what to make out of this. We learned the news yesterday that there’s a magic will serve letter, but we were almost expecting a magic letter, weren’t we?
If you think Aqua shouldn’t be doing this, you can send emails to the company. You just have to be polite.
Also in case you wish to email East Whiteland, here is a letter I grabbed from Ginny Kerslake to share:
Sample email to send to
slambert@eastwhiteland.org
Pfixler@eastwhiteland.org
Csmith@eastwhiteland.orgDear EWT Supervisors,
The Township did a grave disservice to our community in approving and recording the 2024 Data Center plan, all in violation of our township ordinance section 1 75–24.
This section explicitly requires a will-serve letter from Aqua AND a plan from Aqua of the proposed distributtion system demonstrating that the project will not degrade water service to existing customers.
The township was repeatedly reminded of this by ARRO in their consultant reviews of the Preliminary and Final Land Applications. The Township ignored this and approved the plan despite these deficiencies.
Yesterday the Township announced it is in receipt of a letter from Aqua confirming that the water for the 2024 approved plan will be supplied to Sentinel Green Fig despite AQUA saying in 2024 they could only supply roughly 20% of this.
The Township has not made this letter public. I urge that you do so immediately. At the very least community members should be able to expect transparency.
AQUA email addresses sourced from the Internet, and note that Christopher Franklin CEO lives in Willistown like Charlie Lyddane.
Marc Lucca (president) mlucca@essential.co
Christopher Franklin (CEO) CHFranklin@essential.co
President and Chief Operating Officer richard.fox@essential.co
Nathanial Manchin Director, Municipal Partnerships 512.990.4400 ext. 56125 jnmanchin@aquawater.com
Please show up at the next East Whiteland meeting in person if possible. Bring a friend! Call a reporter!
Next Wednesday! October 14th 6:30 PM (But come Early) East Whiteland Township Building 209 Conestoga Road Malvern, PA 19355
East Whiteland pretty much sucks right now. Oh and in spite of that fakakta document being something the public has a RIGHT to see, there was at least one email from a non- attorney saying basically they had to check with Aqua and the developer to make sure nobody had any objections to this being released and are they freaking kidding me?
So from a knowledgeable friend who read the letter, here is part of their opinion:
So here…
-Aqua has only committed to providing less than 66% of what was requested in 2024?
- it’s less than 66% because the amount requested in 2024 did not include fire suppression
- the required plan from Aqua demonstrating that existing customers will not experience degarded service is still missing isn’t it? This plan is especially important now that Aqua is saying that they can provide three times what they committed to in 2024.
My acerbic , sarcastic takeaway? Well number one, can it now be said the developers not only use new math when it comes to things like height of structures and parking but also power and water? We’re currently in a drought and we’ve experienced a lot of drought situations the past couple of years so if Aqua couldn’t provide the water circa 2024 how is it they magically can supply the water now?
Oh and good ol’ Willistown Charlie? Spewing again on LinkedIn and maybe he needs to get off of his phone?
In today’s scintillating edition of East Whiteland is a shit show and they aren’t protecting residents comes the magical news that they now have a will serve letter from AQUA.
Show and tell time East Whiteland or it’s all just more bullshit, except it will be that in the end anyway.
Possibly related? Apparently there are a lot of problems in house in East Whiteland Township. Could it be the management style or the management itself?
IF NO ONE CAN SEE THE LETTER IS IT JUST A MUNICIPAL FAIRY TALE?
My ballot was slightly mutilated, but it arrived. I have already filled it in. Especially the additional supervisors question.
My impetus?
The data center.
Why?
Two supervisors whom in my opinion are afraid to say no, and a third who is a total nasty to residents, a form of sell out.
Members of the Great Valley Democrats literally went to community signing events to stop the ballot question from reaching the ballot (former supervisor Bill Holmes and former VP of ChesCo Dems Jerry Pyne). Now they are saying nothing…but in my humble opinion we know that they are most probably still quietly trying to quite literally stop the public from what they have the right and legal choice to want.
The other thing to note is the Vacancy Board chair in East Whiteland is Jerry Pyne right? So that makes him a tiebreaker in case a supervisor gets incapacitated, and it also gives him the ability to appoint someone, correct? So is it so far-fetched to think that if something happened he might appoint Bill Holmes again if the opportunity arose?
Now the East Whiteland Republican committee is busy, busy, busy posting Trump BS and sharing disbarred Rudy Giuliani posts and circulating their version of a sample ballot where they say no to 2 additional supervisors.
It kind of blows my mind that they are actively soliciting Republicans to say no to this because it’s actually an opportunity for them to level the playing field in East Whiteland because they aren’t getting any traction otherwise.
It is possible that it is a curiously just East Whiteland thing that both political parties are freaking out at the idea of two more supervisors. The politics in this particular township are not particularly enlightened and there has always been deal making between the two parties hasn’t there been? At different points in time I have almost felt like it’s a giant political party named Pat (like the Saturday Night Live skits of years past ) not really one thing or the other, but both.
East Whiteland residents will hopefully take this opportunity to push back where they can. The township has grown exponentially since inception of local government, and there needs to be more representation. Whichever political party ends up on the top of the dirt pile depends entirely on them. It would be nice to see supervisors who were registered independents.
But that’s a conversation for another day. I do believe there are people willing to run. We just have to get two more supervisors added.
So if you are a mail in ballot person, it’s easy same as if you vote in person. Say YES to two more supervisors and consider saying NO to Kristine Howard if you can manage it.
Make the future what you want.
This was sent to me and it was taken over near the bike trail bridge.
How is it they keep digging and stuff when they don’t have the AQUA letters, all of the PECO stuff etc.?
What is going on over at Foote Mineral in East Whiteland Township today?
The person who sent video said:
“They had a 20 foot by 4 foot wide drain pipe in the bucket . It did not look very old.”
#DataCenterWatch
East Whiteland wants a pat on the back for updating their website where it concerns the data center? Here’s the link but don’t expect a pat on the back from me:
https://www.eastwhiteland.org/news_detail_T2_R315.php
If they want praise, then they can stop the data center, right?
I am quite honestly sick of the municipal soft shoe here, aren’t all of you? This project IMHO will be worse and more destructive that Foote Mineral the EPA superfund site it’s being built on. Note I said in my humble opinion/IMHO.
Also IMHO? They should have said no and could have said no when Charlie the fig wanted a hydrogen hub in West Whiteland way back when right?
Now stockbroker turned developer Charlie is getting pissy on his LinkedIn and seemingly defensive according to this screenshot isn’t he? I ditched LinkedIn as a useless social media appendage a few years ago now, so this was sent to me as it is currently circulating as curious, right?
The eternal puzzle of course is how is there work going on over there at Foote if they don’t have the green light letters from AQUA or PECO? And crushing what exactly and does the township, PA DEP, and EPA give a f😡ck?
Of course what is most amusing about this LinkedIn rant are this dude’s assertions that without his data center we will have no cell phones, no Internet, Netflix, etc etc? Oh ok we’ll wait for the proof that his ever changing project is for all of that right? I mean especially since we have all of these things without his community and environmental killing project now right? And I guess he and big orange are best buddies since he makes a misleading national security statement?
Is he like freaking Moses with the electronic Ten Commandments or what?
Here’s his excellent website this morning FYI:
(Tried several different browsers so far and if he can’t put up a consistent or basic website, East Whiteland wants to trust him with a data center? 🤣)
Here’s the website of the New York crew: https://sentineldatacenters.com/
Note that they are in Louden County Virginia:
So Charlie the fig seems to really want his data center? How’s about putting it in his front yard in Willistown then? What could possibly go wrong?
I will close with a video from Louden County, Virginia…the place East Whiteland didn’t know about when starting the data center journey back when Rich Orlow and Sue Drummond were still supervisors but couldn’t have been bothered checking out before they started down this path to hell, right? And then when was it in the last year or so that they said they spoke to Louden County, Virginia officials and still did not get it? They never physically went to visit did they?
Well here East Whiteland Township, watch this you collective of data center-centric idiots. This is what you are dooming us to:
Oh and read this:
A commercial appeared when I was watching the 6 o’clock NBC 10 news today. It was a replay and it had a commercial from PA state representative candidate Elizabeth Moro. She is running against Craig Williams again in the PA 160. There she was in a farm field in a plaid shirt, and one of the things mentioned is how she would help her constituents against data centers.
Umm really?
(Mind you I’m not saying Craig Williams is fabulous either when it comes to data centers because he’s a bring your own energy guy which means a potential power plant next door to your residential street.)
This is is not an endorsement for Craig Williams. This is just pointing out the simple fact that while Elizabeth might be a nice human being with a great local business, she’s possibly not your gal for state representative if Josh Shapiro is stumping for her.
Why?
Again it’s simple: data centers and what they really mean to our Governor.
I told all of my readers a few weeks ago now that if a candidate really isn’t for protecting the people against hyperscale data centers, they aren’t your candidate no matter what political party.
Elizabeth is a Democrat and honestly, maybe it would be nice to have one down there in the 160, but not at the expense of the people if she’s not really against mega scale hyperscale data centers OK?
So Elizabeth can either truly be against data centers or just be truly interested in a girly squeaky way wearing high heels with her jeans and her plaid shirts and posing for photos with Governor Josh Shapiro.
I noticed the more folksy touch from her with the plaid shirts in a farm field and elsewhere, and then I saw a picture of her with Governor Shapiro and she had the high heels on with the jeans and that is I’m sorry just too 1980a college for me. Heels are also not farm field attire are they?
Step apart from the corporate Democrat pack Elizabeth. Truly be against data centers (which are gobbling up farm fields like the ones you have been posing in.)
You can’t be a little bit preggers here as a candidate in PA over data centers, so spell it out. Be very specific, do not be a generalist.
Previous to this, Elizabeth has run for this PA state house seat before (against Craig Williams) and for Congress (she withdrew because of redistricting.)
You know when Chrissy Houlahan was first running for Congress, I was honestly excited back then. I thought she was so nice.
That was 2018.
That was then, and this is now. And lots of people are pretty disillusioned with her. Part of the problem is is that she has been so handled and shielded since she was elected by the Democratic Party. You literally can’t talk to her unless you’re like some big deal. If you go and participate in one of her Town Hall meetings, your questions need to be approved ahead of time, and that doesn’t matter if you’re in person or like on some big Zoom call or phone thing.
If you contact her, her staff is really nice and you might get a form letter in return, but don’t hold your breath waiting for your actual letter topic to be addressed. i’m literally not making this up. I have experienced it and people talk about this all of the time. There is actually one person I know who was very hurt by a lack of response by his Congresswoman. A man who literally helped make the Democrat Party in Chester County.
I am just disappointed.
And so is another local resident and constituent who contacted Houlahan’s office about a freedom of information act request AKA FOIA request being stalled out by the EPA.
This local resident has literally I think been trying to get an answer since I think April? So that’s like five months right? And no less than 10 phone calls on the topic to Houlahan’s office?
Why was she contacting Houlahan in the first place? EPA FOIA lack of response. And this is the response from EPA staff (finally) on September 8, 2026:
Obviously, this has to do with the East Whiteland data center, which is on a federally noticed super fund site known as Foote Mineral.
So are we to presume it took five months to circle the wagons here? Is something being hidden from the public? Do you guys think that this is acceptable? Why is a congressional office so hand’s off in assisting with a federal level issue?
I mean, who can we count on as residents in Chester County?
If you’ve ever submitted a right to know request, you’re familiar with the dance that often occurs. It’s whatever state municipality or agency you’re contacting asking for an extension. But five months for an excuse laden non-response?
I don’t know and I’m still asking as I close this post, is this EPA woman’s response ineptitude or by design?
Do better, Congresswoman Houlahan. You keep asking for us to continue to vote for you, but you’re not giving us a reason why anymore. This is a basic kind of thing that staff should be able to research and get a response to other than this. From April until September 8? Totally unacceptable, bureaucratic bullsheit, don’t you think?
It makes me really sad.
This person never actually got a response from Houlahan’s Office. 
This November people in East Whiteland finally have a chance to get real change. There is a ballot question that is simply yes or no to add two more supervisors.
VOTE YES.
Please note East Whiteland or Great Valley whatever they call themselves Republicans are telling people to vote no. the Democrats? They’re not really taking a position, but they have the ballot question on their sample ballot.
What this comes down to is control. And neither party wants to lose control. If East Whiteland gets five total supervisors, people stand a good chance for the first time in years for balance and representation in all matters.
And maybe if East Whiteland get two more supervisors, we can clean house on staff that really shouldn’t be there.
Vote for the government you want, not what the political parties are telling you that you should do. Also, you need to ponder the point that perhaps both parties are for data centers.
Shame on the Republicans here, but can’t say I’m particularly surprised. They are quite limited in their thinking in this area.
