Close the purchase of the City of York wastewater system assets
Delivered after the deadline (88 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 7 Apr 2021
- Due
- 28 Feb 2022
- Delivered
- 27 May 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“expects to close the transaction by the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The York wastewater asset acquisition closed on May 27, 2022, after the February 28, 2022 deadline the company had stated.
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A American Water Works 10-Q filed 2022-07-27
“On May 27, 2022, the Company’s Pennsylvania subsidiary acquired the public wastewater collection and treatment system assets from the York City Sewer Authority and the City of York for a purchase price of $235 million” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A American Water Works 10-K filed 2023-02-15
“On May 27, 2022, the Company’s Pennsylvania subsidiary acquired the public wastewater collection and treatment system assets from the York City Sewer Authority and the City of York” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -2.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (26 Jul 2022 to 29 Jul 2022). What this measures
Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- City of York wastewater system asset acquisition
- Where
- York, Pennsylvania
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- Medium
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals; subject to Act 12 fair market value appraisal
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Government, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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