NJ’s combined sewer problem needs fixing, but who’s going to pay?
RAVEN SANTANA / NJTV NEWS - New Jersey’s oldest cities are saddled with 19th century water and sewer lines and finding even the latest updates [go to video]
Senate panel advances bills on lead service lines, water infrastructure upgrades
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - A Senate panel approved five bills designed to advance state efforts to reduce the public’s exposure to lead in drinking water [go to article]
Trump repeals key elements of Clean Water Act
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - The Trump administration yesterday finalized repeal of key provisions of the Clean Water Act, stripping away protections [go to article]
Lawmakers, marina owners lobby for funds to fight algae blooms, keep lakes open in...
DAVID M. ZIMMER / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Government officials and marina owners met on the frozen shore of Greenwood Lake on Thursday to lobby [go to article]
Bergen County drinking water sample ranks fourth for toxic PFAS in national study
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - A drinking water sample taken from a Bergen County town had one of the highest concentrations of an increasingly [go to article]
New water tests confirm PFAS contamination in Bergen County
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - New tests on drinking water have found toxic PFAS chemicals present in 43 public water systems around the country [go to article]
New Jersey DEP provides $13.5M to address harmful algal blooms
WATERWORLD - The NJ Department of Environmental Protection is making $13.5 million in funding available for local projects to improve water quality [go to article]
Despite promises, NJ lawmakers have just one law about lead in water. They proposed...
STACEY BARCHENGER / NORTHJERSEY.COM - New Jersey lawmakers who pledged to quickly address the threat of lead in water systems have just one new law [go to article]
Old lead pipes push replacement plan in New Jersey capital
MIKE CATALINI / AP / WHYY - All 37,000 of the lead water pipes in New Jersey’s capital city will be replaced over the next five years at an estimated cost of $150 million [go to article]
‘We are not done’: As lead levels drop in NJ drinking water, Suez plans...
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Lead levels in Bergen and Hudson county drinking water fell below an important federal threshold for the first [go to article]
