Not saying my water looks like this, but goddamn...Depending on what you read, the Trenton Water Works foul-up that's caused my area and surrounding neighborhoods to "boil water before consumption" was either from the recent rainwater that hit the Delaware River not being filtered properly before hitting the Prospect Street reservoir (due to someone not showing for work on Sunday), or just too much rain. All I know is, I'm not touching my tap. My wife actually had to call my son's daycare, because Trenton hadn't notified my city's district about the brown water. Sad, right?
This rests sorely on the bumbling Mayor of Trenton, Tony Mack, as he's the head of this here thing. Whenever this was discovered - regardless of the reason for the tainting of the water - proper officials for every township affected by Trenton Water Works needed to be alerted. Trentonian reports are saying some officials didn't know until 5:30PM that this was going on, which is totally unacceptable, considering that some word trickled down around 3:30PM - hell, I knew about this from a co-worker around 2PM! It's kind of sad that the word of mouth flows quicker than the word from city directors in situations so important as this. I can only imagine if a devastating tragedy hit our area - how long would they wait to alert us of a deadly hurricane or virus?
For now, if you live in a town that's affected by Trenton Waters Works, don't touch your tap. And if you do, get it to a rolling boil for a minute before even thinking about using it.
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