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Ridgewood Water presents 2025 drinking-water report; council reviews multimillion-dollar infrastructure and contract items
Summary
Ridgewood Water presented its annual consumer-confidence report (2025 data), updates on PFAS treatment progress and several capital items: a $4.723M West Glen Avenue water-main replacement bid, a sole-source SCADA service request, a $500,000 annual lease for tank telecom colocation, and other professional and equipment-service items.
At the Ridgewood Village Council workshop on July 8, Ridgewood Water staff presented the utility’s 2026 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report (reporting calendar year 2025 data), summarized PFAS treatment timelines and outlined a suite of capital and service items under consideration.
Bill Biroas, deputy director of Ridgewood Water, said the 2026 report covers calendar-year 2025 results as required by the EPA and DEP and has been reformatted for distribution via a QR-linked postcard to reduce paper waste. He described quarterly notices on PFAS and said that treatment facilities are being brought online; Cedar Hill’s facility required an archaeological study and is expected in the first quarter of next year, with reporting transitions phased over subsequent quarters.
On capital items, staff reported a low qualified bid of $4,723,000 from Montana Construction for the West Glen Avenue water-main replacement (about 6,000 linear feet). Staff also presented a sole-source, not-to-exceed service authorization for Emerson to support the utility’s SCADA system (10 days, $21,544.22), and a not-to-exceed $60,410.63 field-services contract for calibration and certification of chlorine and phosphate analyzers.
Staff discussed an amendment to professional services (CDM Smith) to cover extra DEP inspection requirements in the lead service-line replacement program, and reported a change order request to have Suburban Consulting provide construction administration and inspections for West Glen (net change $10,327 after applying unused design funds).
Separately, staff presented a lease award for colocation of wireless telecommunications equipment at the West Lehi storage tank that will bring $500,000 in revenue; councilors discussed scaling similar opportunities at other municipal towers to offset rate pressures. Ridgewood Water also proposed a shared-service paving agreement with Midland Park to coordinate paving where water projects require street excavation.
No formal votes on capital awards were recorded at the workshop; several items were presented for council consideration and scheduled for authorization in upcoming meetings.
Next steps: staff will place the bond-ordinance correction, contract awards and change orders on upcoming agendas for formal council action and will continue to publish PFAS and consumer-confidence updates as treatment milestones are reached.
