The Pennington Avenue reservoir sits in the middle of Trenton. It supplies water to 151,900 people in Ewing, Hamilton, Hopewell, and Lawrence. And it has been federally illegal for more than a decade.
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If you pay a water bill to Trenton Water Works and you don’t live in the lower-elevation parts of Trenton, your drinking water passes through the Pennington Avenue Reservoir before it reaches your tap. Not near it. Through it…