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Glen Rock Residents Get a Chance to Hear Out Ridgewood Water officials

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February 29,2016
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Ridgewood Water Info Session 2/23/16 from Glen Rock TV on Vimeo.

GLEN ROCK, NJ , Glen residents questioned , Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn, and Ridgewood Water officials during special public meeting recently.

The meeting was the second such meeting giving the new Ridgewood water management team a chance to explain the complexities of managing a decentralized water system as opposed to a single source system.

The Village of Ridgewood owns the embattled utility company, which services Wyckoff, Midland Park, and Glen Rock.

A major lawsuit by officials from those municipalities alleges that the utility artificially inflated its costs by commingling Village of Ridgewood expenses with that of the water utility. In a recent press release Wyckoff officials claim the, “massive” 37 percent rate increases approved since 2010 are “unlawful” and “excessive,”