Municipal elections held on May 11 indicated strong public opposition to a controversial plan to sell more than 2/3 of the City of Trenton's water system.  In addition to the success of numerous sale opponents in Mayoral and City Council elections, our volunteers reported over 95% of voters who were aware of the sale plan to vote against it on June 15.

After a lengthy battle to bring the issue to a public vote, the NJ Supreme Court ruled the sale could not go through without the approval of voters during the June 15th runoff election.  The Stop the Sale campaign is committed to defeating the short-sighted proposal, which would cost Trenton taxpayers money and increase water bills in the city and in the surrounding suburbs of Hamilton, Lawrence, Ewing, and Hopewell.

The water deal is a bad deal for Trenton.  Selling our most valuable asset to a for-profit corporation will cause layoffs and lost jobs for Trenton residents as meter-reading jobs will be eliminated.  The sale of the majority of the water system will also burden taxpayers with unnecessary system separation costs and put Trenton in a vulnerable position that could easily lead to the privatization of the remainder of the Water Works in the near future.  Furthermore, there is a clause in the contract that would permit NJ American Water to end their business relationship with the City after just three years, leaving Trenton high and dry, with infrastructure to provide water to five municipalities but no customers outside of Trenton.

Do the right thing and Vote NO to the deal on June 15th to keep our water publicly controlled and keep generating revenue for the City.