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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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Stories We’re Working On (opens the original)
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A short note on what we’re working on, so you know what’s coming.1. The bankruptcy story has more in itLast month we reported in The Trentonian — with a companion piece here — that Trenton Water Works is on a path toward insolvency. That story was built from the utility’s own numbers: its capital plan, its rate study, its debt, and what the state has been telling the city in writing.We’re not finished with it. There are threads in that reporting we deliberately left for follow-ups — how th
Year Two Opens With the Receipts: TWW’s Path to the Edge, in Documents and Charts (opens the original)
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This past Saturday, August 8, marked one year of The Mains of Trenton — more than 200 posts tracking Trenton Water Works’ finances, water quality, and management, one document at a time. I can’t think of a more fitting way to open year two than this: a story in this morning’s Trentonian, and the receipts behind it laid out below. And if this work has been useful to you over the past year, I’m asking for a small anniversary gift — one that costs nothing and takes five minutes. Instructions at the
TWW’s Hydrant Flushing Notice: A Week (Month?) Too Late (opens the original)
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TWW customers will start finding a flyer in their mailbox this week from Trenton Water Works dated July 27. The notice alerts customers to temporary discolored water from the annual fire hydrant inspection and flow testing program. There’s one problem: for most Trenton residents and all Hopewell Township customers, the work was already finished.According to the mailer itself, the flushing schedule for Trenton, South Trenton, West Trenton, and Hopewell Township ended between June 30 and July 30.
The City Wrote Its Own Story. Here’s What It Left Out. (opens the original)
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This morning, the Trentonian published an article under its LOCAL NEWS banner titled “Trenton Water Works highlights Pennington Avenue reservoir operations.”The byline reads: “By CITY OF TRENTON | For The Trentonian.”<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZOhQ!,
Four Months In: June Had Zero Compliant Days — and Every Metric Is Still Moving the Wrong Way (opens the original)
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This monitoring program exists because of a letter. In March 2026, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ordered Trenton Water Works to begin daily water quality testing at the Pennington Avenue Reservoir under a formal Remedial Monitoring Plan — a directive that followed coverage in the Trentonian and <a href="https://trentonwaterworks.substack.com/p/published-today-in-the-t
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