(11 Aug 2025)
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Paterson, New Jersey – 11 August 2025
1. Water distribution
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gail Fletcher, Paterson Resident
“It’s hard, and I can’t… And then, you know, it’s terrible. And I just want this to be better, that’s all.”
3. Water distribution at John F. Kennedy High School
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gail Fletcher, Paterson Resident
“We take water for granted. I got to go to my sister’s house. I got go to this one house to take a shower. I got got to here, and the commode is terrible. That’s the worst part of it, is the commode.”
5. Portable toilets set up by senior living facility
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Diane Davis, Paterson Resident
“It’s been hot, no water in the toilet. You have to use water to flush the toilet, shower, and you got a bird bath. It’s just a lot, it’s just depressing. It is. It’s depressing.”
7. Portable showers at John F. Kennedy High School
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Diane Davis, Paterson Resident
“This is life, life shows up. Life shows up Yeah, every day is something new. Yeah, thank God we have electricity.”
9. Paterson resident showing ID to get case of water
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller (pronounced MULL-urr), Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
“On Friday, August 8th, we had a catastrophic failure on our 30 inch line over at the Great Falls, 30 inch water main that feeds a greater part of Patterson. Customers have been impacted ever since, either with low pressure or no water.”
11. Residents getting water
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
“We brought in tanker trucks for Prospect Park, we put in temporary pumping in Paterson to bring water from a higher pressure area to a lower pressure area and we continue to investigate the leak. It has proven to be more complicated. There’s three major lines running through the area of the leak, it’s in a wooded area it’s pretty inaccessible and each of the lines is about 140 years old. So the age of the system, the age the valves in the system have made this very difficult to isolate so we can repair it. We continue to work on that. I don’t have a time frame for the repair at this point. It’s proven more complicated, and we continue water distribution for the residents who are impacted. We’ll be doing that until this is resolved.”
13. People getting water
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
“Yeah, the 140-year-old pipe, I mean, we recently had an earthquake. We’ve done interconnections. There’s fires in the system. There are a lot of things that can happen in the system that can spike flow or cause water pressure issues. It could be any one of those things. You know, none of them help. Certainly the earthquake didn’t help. But again, the infrastructure is 140 years old and it didn’t happen right after the earthquake. It was several days later. So, you know, again, it’s hard to pinpoint the cause. But the underlying age of the pipes we have in Paterson is 220 miles of water mains, varying sizes. And about 70% of those water mains are older than 100 years old.”
15. Water distribution
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
17. Residents in cars getting water
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
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Paterson, New Jersey – 11 August 2025
19. Various pool shots of where water is coming to the surface at site of underground water main break by Hinchliffe Stadium
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