Perhaps, a little indian rain dance might help.

Perhaps if Ridgewood Water would finally do their JOB and use the "upgrade facilities" fee to improve the infrastructure instead of buying new trucks every year they wouldn't lose so much water! This company is a JOKE!

How much money will it take to fix these aging pipes?

this leak has been known about for YEARS by all the "insiders " . This company is entrenched in corrupt deception . .

Every water company knows that they have leaky pipes, there is nothing corrupt about it.

Yes every water company knows that they have leaky pipes, but quite frankly, this company is turning into a bad joke. Can they get anything right??

how much does moritz lose each year in his pension? What about his children on the payroll. And what about the DUI issue with his son with one of the trucks a few years ago?? What a joke

I think Ridgewood Water is one of the worst run utilities in NJ. Every year we're put on water restrictions with or without a drought, every year they screw up billing their customers. If we had a choice where we could get our water from, half their customers would bail on them.

Leaving the subject of corruption aside, it's pretty obvious that for whatever reason there has been shockingly poor stewardship of the infrastructure, and that needs to change with all due haste I note that there are plans for additional water storage in Wyckoff, but without addressing major leaks, it's just more of the same. This should be a huge wake-up call to our new village council.

What has not been addressed here is the enormous overuse of water in Ridgewood. The worship of the American Lawn still rules here, but if this summer has taught us anything, it's that climate change is hitting us fast and hard. It's time for people in Ridgewood (and everywhere) consider the amount of water needed to sustain a luxury that's rapidly becoming unsustainable. Water is fast becoming a scarce and and precious resource that we can no longer take for granted. There are many creative and beautiful ways using drought-tolerant plants and groundcovers that will virtually eliminate the need for watering and chemicals, while allowing full use of the property. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you might find, you get what you need ;)

Today, July 16, I saw 5 houses watering at midday -between 12:00 and 1:45! How do residents get the word about Stage II? I read it on the Patch last week...not everyone reads the Patch! It's really annoying to see my brown grass and their green grass!!!

Our friends in Hawthorne who have a family of 4 say that their quarterly water bill is about $50 or about $200 a year. They never have water restrictions. When we lived in Park Ridge for several years we never had water restrictions. Ridgewood Water always has restrictions and I never saw a bill under $150. If they didn't have a monopoly would anyone choose them?

Didnt the Republicans say there were going to running an efficient village? You have a former Republican Mayor as BA and you have Councilmember Walsh and her Republican Bergen County double dipper friends at the County. These Republicans need to answer

Leaking pipes cost money to fix people want to pay to lease BMW's because the can see them and show them off water pipes are buried in the ground out of sight out. Of mind

Went to the friends house in Hawthorne and he showed me his last two quarterly water bills. He was stretching the truth. It turns out the bills were $38.95 and $42.14 and not $50. He then said they never had a bill over $50 ever. I had misunderstood.

It's long since time to privatize Ridgewood Water or at least create a public private partnership. To put in mildly, there's a lot of murk in it -- not the water but everything else.