Public Health Media Advisory: Sept 29, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sewer Plant Violations: Health Risk, lack of Transparency since June 10, 2025
Contact: John Errigo, Democratic nominee for Mayor
Email: errigoformayor@gmail.com
Date: September 29, 2025
Fieldsboro, NJ — This is a public health announcement. Fieldsboro’s sewer plant is leaking untreated waste into the Delaware River, releasing E. coli and other harmful bacteria. That puts our most vulnerable residents, infants and the elderly, at risk of serious illness. The danger does not stop at Fieldsboro’s borders: downstream communities including Florence, Burlington, Beverly, Delanco, Riverside, Riverton, Palmyra (NJ), and across the river in Levittown, Bristol, and Croydon (PA) are also at risk as contamination flows through the shared river ecosystem.
On June 10, 2025, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) issued a violation notice for Fieldsboro’s sewer plant — just two years after an $81,000 fine in March 2023 for similar failures. Despite the seriousness of these violations, the notice was not made available to the public until it was obtained through an OPRA request.
Mayor David Hansell and Sewer Plant committeeman Tim Tyler, refuse to acknowledge or inform residents of this public health threat since June 10, 2025. Instead of transparency and solutions, Borough leadership is attempting to cover up the problem. Residents deserve accountability, not more cover-ups.
I am calling on state regulators, local officials, and the public to demand urgent action to bring Fieldsboro’s sewer plant into compliance before this becomes a wider health disaster.
Immediate corrective action is needed to bring the sewer plant into compliance and protect residents’ health and safety. Continued delays increase the risk of exposure to dangerous bacteria and put neighboring towns along the Delaware River in harm’s way.