Legal Opinion
Reading Area Water Authority v. Schuylkill River Greenway Ass'n
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 24, 2014No. 62 MAP 2013PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
The primary question raised is whether a municipal authority may exercise its eminent domain powers to condemn an easement over privately-owned land, where the sole purpose of the easement is to supply a private developer with land to install sewer drainage facilities needed for a proposed private residential subdivision.
The Schuylkill River Greenway Association (the Greenway), a non-profit corporation, owns a strip of land along the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Bern Township, several miles north of the City of Reading. The Greenway and the Township intend to…
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