The letter is grim. It warns that Trenton’s water utility does not possess the technical, managerial or financial capacity to avert a possible “catastrophic failure,” of its water system.
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, DEP, Commissioner Shawn LaTourette signed it on July 29, 2025. He’d made an unannounced visit to the utility’s water treatment plant on June 18 and was not impressed.
“The observations made during this three-hour site visit were deeply troubling and conformed with the independent findings of historic neglect, underinvestment, and an unsupported and ill-equipped TWW workforce,” he wrote…