I apologize for the choppiness, but this was copy/pasted from an email I received from my father. This applies to Trenton, Ewing, Hamilton, and Lawrence Township residents.

 

PRECAUTIONARY BOIL WATER ADVISORY FOR CUSTOMERS OF TRENTON WATER WORKS

 

Trenton Water Works is providing notification that due to a treatment plant shutdown on Sunday, October 3, 2010, customers in the City of Trenton, Ewing Township, and Lawrence Township have experienced water outages and/or a significant loss of pressure. This notice does not apply to customers in Hopewell Township or Hamilton Township at this time. However, if you experience a significant loss of pressure or occurrence of cloudy or turbid water please follow these water use restrictions.

 

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has determined that a potential or actual threat to the quality of water being provided to you currently exists. As a precaution, the following Boil Water Advisory is required until testing of the water supply is deemed satisfactory.

 

Effective immediately and until further notice, bring tap water to a rolling boil for one minute and allow the tap water to cool before using for:

 

drinking, preparing foods, washing vegetables and fruit, cooking, making ice cubes, taking medications, brushing teeth, and mixing baby formula, food, juices or drinks.

 

Please continue to boil your water or use bottled water until you are notified that the water quality is acceptable.

 

The following measures are also recommended:

 

 

Throw away uncooked food or beverages or ice cubes if made with tap water during the day of the advisory;

 

Keep boiled water in the refrigerator for drinking;

 

Do not swallow water while showering or bathing;

 

Rinse hand-washed dishes with a diluted bleach solution (one tablespoon of household bleach per gallon of tap water) or clean your dishes in a dishwasher using the hot wash cycle and dry cycle;

 

Do not use home filtering devices in place of boiling or using bottled water; most home water filters will not provide adequate protection from microorganisms;

 

Use only boiled water to treat minor injuries;

 

Provide pets with drinking water that has been boiled (and cooled).

 

Please be advised that Trenton Water Works has restored partial operation of the treatment plant and activated emergency interconnections with neighboring water systems to supplement our demand.

 

 

 

This advisory will remain in effect until repairs are completed and testing shows the water quality to be safe. If customers have any questions please contact Trenton Water Works at (609) 989-3208.

Thanks for the head's up. I have plenty of friends in those areas that I'll pass the word too.

Thank you! I wouldn't drink it anyway but I do use it for everything else.

Cliffs for anyone who doesnt want to read:

 

Boil water for EVERYTHING that would go into your mouth. Drinking, preparing food, brushing teeth etc.

Provide pets with drinking water that has been boiled (and cooled).

 

This also extended to residents of Hopewell Township that get city water. They used the emergency preparedness network and telephoned everyone in those townships. Interesting because the message came from an 800 number in Arizona. That's the third time this year they've used it - once for a bear, once for two escaped mental patients and now the water.

 

Rumor has it that the filtration plant was turned off and the supervisor wouldn't come in on a Sunday for the emergency - actually turned his cell phone off. The plot thickens - this supervisor was a new patronage appointee by the new mayor in Trenton and apparnetly doesn't know his a$$ from third base when it comes to water treatment plants. Score another one for politics as usual in good old NJ.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob<------has a well and is glad of it

 

Rumor has it that the filtration plant was turned off and the supervisor wouldn't come in on a Sunday for the emergency - actually turned his cell phone off. The plot thickens - this supervisor was a new patronage appointee by the new mayor in Trenton and apparnetly doesn't know his a$$ from third base when it comes to water treatment plants. Score another one for politics as usual in good old NJ.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob<------has a well and is glad of it

This is all similar to what I have heard, on both accounts. They blamed it on the excessive amounts of water, but an anonymous employee stated something about someone not coming in. I also heard that about the mayor firing the workers to get his own guys in who dont know squat.