Trenton Water Works Customers Get Muddy Water

by Jordan Yerman | October 5, 2010 at 07:36 am

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Trenton Water Works Customers Told to Boil Water

High water levels on the Delaware River forced Trenton Water Works to temporarily suspend water filtration. With water filtration offline, Trenton and Ewing residents were told to boil their water to avoid contaminants. Local schools were shut down.

New Jersey residents noticed a drop in water pressure, and the water that was coming through the pipes was cloudy or muddy. Trenton Water Works switched over to its Pennington Avenue reservoir and opened up interconnections with New Jersey American Water Co. but the water-boiling advisory is still in effect for Trenton Water Works customers.

City Council President Blames Mayor for Trenton Water Works Outage

City Council President George Muschal wasted no time in taking a swing at Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, blaming the Trenton Water Works shutdown on Mack's recent appointments.

The plant superintendent had spent Sunday night monitoring water quality and discovered the renewed turbidity problem yesterday morning, city officials said. The Department of Environmental Protection required the plant to stop drawing water from the river when it become too cloudy, Burzachiello said.

“Mayor Mack has gotten rid of a lot of people with a lot of experience’’ at the water works, Muschal said. “This just shows that we can’t do business this way. We can’t afford to fire people with all of this knowledge on how to run things,” Muschal said.