We provide clear, documented facts about Trenton Water Works to counter the misinformation and political spin surrounding its future, including efforts to block or distort the conversation about regionalization.
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TWW is closer to insolvency than anyone at City Hall wants to say out loud — and its fallback plan is a state rescue or spending cuts. The documents, the email, and four charts.
"Remember that brown water last month?"
Trenton Water Works published a 900-word account of Pennington Avenue Reservoir operations that never mentions a single measurement from the monitoring program the state ordered it to run.
June data shows the lowest chlorine average yet, a 73% jump in suspended solids, and temperatures that Legionella thrives in — in a reservoir serving a system with a documented history of Legionnaires
May water quality data shows chlorine at its lowest yet, phytoplankton accelerating, and a reservoir entering peak algal bloom season without its most critical safety tests.
A bad procurement call just cost Trenton $10 million — and the roof is still leaking onto the electrical equipment.
Four tests TWW's communications don't pass
Three remaining tasks — community engagement, operational planning, and regulatory compliance — and the long list of things that could still go wrong between here and an operating regional utility.
TWW's director says the utility is "not in violation of any reporting or analytical requirements." The DEP database has 85 entries that complicate that claim.
TWW customers were just told their water rates are going up. The plan behind that number funds about a third of what the system actually needs.
