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Winnie & Sammie’s Journal
The Official Blog of the Department of Water & Sewer Utilities

2024 Year in Review: Newark Water & Sewer Highlights
Keep up with Newark Water and Sewer by learning more about our latest accomplishments, projects, and 2024 highlights.

Upgrades at Pequannock Water Treatment Facility: A continued investment in Newark’s water
The ongoing upgrades at the Pequannock Water Treatment Plant are the next steps the City of Newark is taking to overhaul its aging water infrastructure. Since 2014, the Baraka administration has invested over $350 million in all water infrastructure upgrades thus far.

Newark Watershed Science & Leadership Academy: A Program to Educate Newark’s Youth on Water Treatment and Infrastructure
A group of teenagers from John F. Kennedy School stood in awe of the massive concrete dam holding back 2.9 billion gallons of water at the Charlotteburg Reservoir, one of seven in the Newark Water & Sewer Utility’s 35,000 acre watershed in Morris and Passaic Counties.