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Utility announces details on lead line replacements at Nov. 13 event By roB antHes
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December will be a crucial month for Trenton Water Works, with two long-awaited, major initiatives starting before the end of 2019. First, on Dec. 3, TWW will start to add orthophosphate to its water in an effort to prevent lead in its system from reaching its 225,000 customers across Mercer County. Lead reacts with orthophosphate to
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the TWW form scale, which can prevent ing it to Regenerative Spinesystem. Cur& Pain Institute estimates it will lead in corroding pipes and fix- rently, TWW tures from leaching into water. take five years and $200 million Orthophosphate does not get to replace 35,000 lead service rid of lead, however, and merely lines in its service area. DOWNTOWN TRENTON WWW. PATRIOTSWEEK. COM Hopewell Township—the masks the problem. The only way to ensure lead fi fth municipality served by has been removed from the TWW—does not have any lead water is to eliminate lead from pipes because it joined the utilthe system itself, which is ity after lead was banned as a where the second, larger TWW plumbing material in 1986. The start dates of both projundertaking comes in. After nearly two years of ects were first reported by the advertising its service line Ewing Observer last month. replacement program, TWW But Trenton Water Works will start replacing lines soon. interim director Steven Picco Work begins in Hamilton and provided more details durLawrence in December, with ing a Nov. 13 panel at Rider Ewing and Trenton following University. Hosted by Rider’s Rebovich in January. Service lines are the pipes that run from the curb to Institute for New Jersey Politics a home or business, connectSee WATER, Page 10 Luxury senior apartments will create a place to live, work, and play in Bordentown. Page 4
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‘Alien invaders’ on the loose Lanternflies endanger Christmas trees, other plant life By JuLia marnin
Ewing native Mara Ranson is a Rockette performing in her first Radio City Music Hall annual Christmas Spectacular. To read her stor y, turn to Page 12. (Photo courtesy of MSG.)
Beware of alien invaders this Christmas, and be prepared to kill them on sight. That’s the warning the state Department of Agriculture has issued regarding the latest nonnative insect to come to our region. If part of your holiday tradition involves venturing to a local farm and picking the perfect-sized tree on which to display your ornaments, watch out for unusual gray blobs on the bark of your ideal pine or fir. These gray clusters could contain around 30-50 eggs of
an invasive species known as the spotted lanternfly, a winged insect native to China, that the state of New Jersey is encouraging residents to destroy immediately if discovered. Mercer County is currently under quarantine along with seven other New Jersey counties because of this colorful planthopper pest that has infiltrated the state. The spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula, has spread throughout Southeast Asia and Korea and more recently the east coast of the United States—mainly Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “While it is not harmful to humans or pets, (the lanternfly) does feed on 70 different types of vegetation and prefers the Tree of Heaven, which is
an invasive plant that is present in much of New Jersey,” said Jeff Wolfe, an official from the New Jersey 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton,epartment of Agriculture. He calls the spotted lanternfly, which is gray and red with wings bespeckled with black dots, “an excellent hitchhiker on any kind of vehicle or transportation.” That’s exactly how it entered the United States from overseas. Apples, almonds, grapes, hops and a wide array of trees, such as oak and maple, are among the types of vegetation that may be in jeopardy from the spotted lanternfly, which gather in masses on its host of choice. It is as much as a threat to See LANTERNFLIES, Page 6
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