The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-01
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I"D7ERGEPfING SEWER.
Result Of the Passsaic Pol
luton Commissioners
River Trip.
FTELEY's s5,Ooo,ooo ESTIMATE
Information Wanted From Army
Engineers-Effects Of
Currents.

A very dlfncuit proplem and ue ohns
apparent solution, a trunk sewer from
PATERSON down., was the consensus "
opinion OF those who accompanied tie
Passaic Valley Sewerage commission
yesterday afternoon on their trip OF m
spection over NeWark Bay, XII Won
kuh and New York Bay.
Consulting Engineer A. Fteiey, OF
New York, gave close attention 10 tne
government map on the trap DOWN II
gave the soundmgs OF all the waters
traversed and something of an idea OF
the amount of water which could be
relied upon to dilute sewage. The
meadows along the Passaic We're m
spected as a possible ne1d Tor the ois-
posai OF the coarser proaucts OF sewage
known as siuuge' put phe propieih
Wnich seemed 70 pc uppermost was 70
9ocate an outlet for q trunk intercept
ins semer sa . yin wheh Wouiu pe
uiop5ectlonapie 70 any OF the COM
iluiii.ses aiohs me snore. ohe ineiii-
49, rs Ns
sass, $50 ~ "ouiu 70 ~
somamo 49, -
,,aar Eta,au naa,sas 49, - $500
more ba este.la ~ * oa nao - 49, 49,
ioh and tba nronor;+,or -. anonsad
without further nomment
Attention ua +,,rnod - o,,t,a+
somewhere witbin tba wa+ars ~ Nav.
ark Raw Artb,r KIN I'm von rn1, ~
No., WI, D.. ~
Day. All " tiese polhls
nave great dificulties. New York city
would probably object right away 70
having SAVAGE a,,mnaa ~ ~ w.
80 mn mt Aolh
/! ~. n 1Ii6 IHdlIRTN II 116PGE mn n 4
Gent body of water, present great diff
fculties as regards the other arms of the
500
se
engineer Fteley said that at present
he had not sufficient data to come fo
anv oono,,,sion s14 "a, S..
- ' = WIZ pc necessary,
said he, "to get all the Information that
we can from the reports of the Tinted
states covarrman. 49,
- eiisiiieefs On me .loes
ton and the direction Of their flow II
would be no use to dump sewage into
Newark Bay or the Kill Won Kull if the
tides would bring 1T hack along the
sboras ~ M 4ha ps.sa; ns
op 'he assam anu fiacheh-
sack Rivers. From looking at the sound
ings of the Government man I should
-. -
imagine fhat the tiues must produce
strong currents in the Kill Won Kull and
l of11n~ nnae iva y, Ts11
~ fih
"fhe effect of currents is vital in this
| question and the engineers really ought
~ b.,,a a;ah+aan r,sn+h~ - awnamon.
- nase eisneeei hionels 70 experiment
for themselves before determining abso-
iutely upon the best general system. We
must report in six months and 1 think
that WE will have to suggest in our re-
port to the Comm ssion several general
plans. When a choice is made we can
prepare complete plans specifications
| for carrying 1t out. In all probability,
we shall 60 into the details far enough
10 give general outlines for each plan with
its probable coat
Mr., l'teley. was not prepared 10 indi-
cafe what these MANS are 10 he IN he
sasd that tha necessarv dafa had rot
yef been collected
atansbans 81 tba rorn,tss,or bou,a,ar
fraeIu disc,sssd 94be nrhn.a S,biact n
NJ ~ 81 Pa+arso,, o,,t1;naG savarsi
nr 49," ! rrlla So - tn,rL -
pm from pa4erson down irercentino
run aroIm n ~ I Mumh iaheete IT. pa ~
~ So ,aUm eampuynns IT, sme 90 -
s : no;,pt Sahsaa q S mOo,Syd 5ot = he s ohiaeto ~
q PUNT wneie ! "ouHu = &c oo9ecloi
apte. - -
Aaoohe1 prai n rs mulh lnrercspe4 h |
$500 possoia an I, ~eWase ~
| Newark meadows, where the "Sludge'