
“According to the latest mailing, “Ridgewood Water has been aware of PFOA and PFOS detections and has sought to educate our customers for years…” So shame on me that I finally realized that we have been paying to be poisoned. We have been and will be forced to pay this Village owned company for its contaminated and unsafe water.”
“My questions are who are the Ridgewood Water managers and trustees? How long have they been there and how much are they paid? Who is legally responsible for oversight given this fundamental failure? Is the Village financially capable of dealing with the liabilities associated with its failed management of this monopoly? Why is the Village building a new office complex for this entity when it cannot perform its basic function in a safe and proper way.
I would suggest that we make this a bigger issue at the next town hall meeting. Maybe if we threatened to set off our water bill with the expenses associate with the suggested and necessary requirement to “purchase bottled water or other home devices,” some elected official would move their asses and do their job. As I have said in previous posts, the Village is not a good business owner and manager. An empty parking garage that saps the Villages financial resources is contemptible. However, forcing people to pay for a product that causes problems with “immune systems, kidney, liver, or endocrine systems” and ” cause developmental effect and problems with the immune systems, liver or endocrine system in a fetus and/or an infant,” is beyond gross negligence and willful misconduct.
Don’t drink Ridgewood Water’s kool-aide. It may make you and family very, very sick.”
What is in it ? ???? . Some one must know.
Through testing they discovered PFOA. It is in the ground water, the contamination is probably from a source that Ridgewood Water is suing. RW doesn’t control the aquifer. Direct your anger at the polluter.
PFOA is a problem across the country.
I have a water dispenser and will switch to reverse osmosis soon.
Sell the water company. Everything the village operates turns to crud.
Very sad. Ridgewood Water was sourced from Artesian Wells. Do not know what happened to them. (Dried up???) when I first moved to Ridgewood in 1955. The water was so pure (as was most back then). Then in the 60’s they added flouride. Big mistake as that is not necessary.
Water was still pretty good up until the 80’s. Early 90’s.
@Alika, I moved here a few years after you did and we had delicious water.
When some of the artesian wells went out of service for whatever reasons, the incompetent management at that time chose to buy surface water from another utility rather than repair or drill new wells.
We are now stuck with this chlorine smelly water that i refuse to drink. Probably due to a requirement to treat surface water for bird shit and runoff from dog shit into the resevoirs?
I’d like to hear an answer.
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