Today, TWW released a statement calling for voluntary water conservation for Trenton Water Works (TWW) customers due to frazil ice conditions. Ewing Mayor Bert Steinmann, Hopewell Township Mayor Courtney Peters-Manning and Hamilton Mayor Jeff Martin have the following joint statement:
“If it did not have real world impacts, we would think this is a bad comedy show,” said the Mayors. “Under their current leadership, TWW has failed time and time again. TWW has had roughly one year to figure out its issues as it relates to frazil ice which causes a decrease in the water supply. If we weren’t already worried about brown water or legionella; now we again must worry if we even have any water. For these, and many other reasons, we call for action by our State legislators in Legislative Districts 14 and 15 to amend the Water Infrastructure Protection Act (WIPA) to allow NJ DEP to determine if a water system faces emergent conditions so that public reformation hearings can be held. If the people who are failing to lead are the only ones allowed to determine if a system should be reformed, the cycle of incompetence will only continue.”
“Further, in response to their repeated failures, we will work with the State to explore whether the TWW serviced municipalities can create their own water utility and permanently divorce ourselves of TWW’s incompetence.”