---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-26-000098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WTRG"
cik: "0000078128"
company_name: "Essential Utilities, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-03-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T18:24:55.575176+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Essential Utilities issues $500M of 5.125% Senior Notes due 2036

## Summary
- $500M principal, 5.125% interest, semi-annual payments starting Sep 15, 2026, maturity Mar 15, 2036.
- Make-whole redemption before Dec 15, 2035; par call after that date.
- Offering closed Mar 9, 2026 via underwriting agreement with Barclays, PNC, RBC.
- Proceeds for general corporate purposes; notes are senior unsecured obligations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-26-000098
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WTRG
- cik: 0000078128
- company_name: Essential Utilities, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-03-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278126000098/0001552781-26-000098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278126000098/e26097_wtrg-8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-26-000098
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-26-000098.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-26-000098.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Essential Utilities, Inc. entered into Tenth Supplemental Indenture with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association valued at $500,000,000 principal amount (effective 2026-03-09).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Value: $500,000,000 principal amount
  - Effective: 2026-03-09
  source text: On March 9, 2026, Essential Utilities, Inc. (the “Company”) issued $500,000,000 principal amount of its 5.125% Senior Notes due 2036 (the “Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278126000098/0001552781-26-000098-index.htm

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