(12 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paterson, New Jersey – 11 August 2025
1. 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.”
2. Various of residents picking up cases of water
3. 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. And the commode is terrible. That’s the worst part of it, is the commode.”
4. 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.”
5. Diane Davis and William Mosley walking
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Diane Davis, Paterson Resident
“This is life, life shows up. Life shows up
SOUNDBITE (English) William Mosley, Paterson Resident
Yeah, every day is something new.
SOUNDBITE (English) Diane Davis, Paterson Resident
Yeah, thank God we have electricity.”
++PARTLY COVERED++
7. 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.”
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Paterson, New Jersey – 11 August 2025
8. Various of water coming to the surface at site of underground water main break by Hinchliffe Stadium
9. Workers with water pipes
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paterson, New Jersey – 11 August 2025
++COVERED++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
“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.”
++COVERED++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
“The pipes are up to 20 feet, 25 feet underground, so even that just excavating down to them is a challenge.”
12. Various of people getting water
++COVERED++
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mueller, Passaic Valley Water Commission Executive Director
“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.”
STORYLINE:
Water pressure was improving Tuesday for thousands of frustrated residents in a northern New Jersey city with little or no service since a water main break late last week, but a boil water advisory for nearly 200,000 customers remained in effect.
Improvement began hours after crews isolated the leak Monday night, though officials said Tuesday that they still have not reached the broken main, which is some 30 feet underground in Paterson. Service was expected to slowly improve during the day Tuesday, but authorities warned that residents in highly elevated areas will have to wait longer.
Repairs were ongoing Tuesday in the state’s third-largest city, but it was unclear when the work would be completed.
The problems began Friday when the roughly 140-year-old water main broke. Some residents have had no water service since then and thousands continued dealing with extremely low water pressure.
AP video shot by Ted Shaffrey
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