The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-26

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ing into the river, may be formed from
the Following description of the commu-
mites most Interested IN The sflh{acf AZ
hand.
Paterson is Increasing rapidly. and is
essentially a manufacturing city; the In
centive for the rapid growth of the man
uIacturlng interests being mainly the ad
vantages originally offered by the great
water power belonging to the long estab-
lished Society for Establishing Useful
Manutacturss as well as the general
facrilaaes oIered by the extensive river
frontage; a corresponding development of
residential districts has obviously kept
~terests.
its at the southwesterly boundary, about
one and o~ne-quarter miles above the
rams, and passes the s-outheasterly limit,
on the right bank, o seven miles be-
low the Falls, dividing the city into two
parts. of which, by far, the larger. is on
the right bank, which it surrounds on
tnree sides, west. north and east. On the
lert bank, the city limits extend to about
one n one-half miles below the Falls;
immediately above the Falls the great
mill race dIverts the water for the water
power OF the company, which, after hay
ing passed the mills, returns to ther river
a short distance below.
FOR the purposes Of this report, the
city, therefore, must be considered as in
two separate sections, of which that on
the right ban contains 4.240 acres. while
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a Total OF 5,SS5 acres for the whole city.
The water supply taken from the river
Is furnished by the Passaic Water Com
pany; the pumping station being located
above the Falls, and the consumption is
reported to be from fifteen toA twenty
million gallons in t~wenty-four hours.
ne sewerage system of the city of Pat
erson is built on the Combined Sys-
tenn; the section on the left bank of the
river is divided into five sewerage areas,
OF which the first area (above the Falls)
IS not as yet provided with sewers. The
remaining four areas h through
sewer outlets of which the uppermost is
located in the Quarry" a short distance
below the Falls, and the lowest at Bergen
street.
The section on the right bank is d.
vided into fourteen sewerage areas, of
which the first above the Falls Is not
provided with any sewers, and the follow
ing six areas drain into the river through
eight outlets, of which the uppermost is
located at Prospect street. The eighth
area following down the river) is not
provided with sewers, while the follow
ing three have four outlets. The twelfth
area Is not yet severed, while the thir-
teenth n fourteenth nave one outlet
EACH: the last having its outlet
at Market street, within city's lin
IT'S; 4 total number of sewer
outlets IN the City is therefore twenty
two; eight on the left bank and fourteen
on the right bank, with four areas not
yet provided with sewers.
The total sewage discharged into the
river from the sewers on both banks is
stated to be seventeen million gallons per
day, TO which should be added, according
to the statements made by the manufac-
turers, nfn million gallons of factory
refuse and sewage discharged directly
into the river; making a total of twenty
SIX mallion gallons per day discharged into
the river by the City of Paterson.
Below Paterson and before reaching Pas
sale, extends a part of the Aq~uackanock
tfnTI hin rrfN1 kI@ n q
the Erie Railroad, with a water supply
furnished by the Passaic Water Company,
put with no sewage. The number of in
habitants is small and cannot be defin-
itely stated, as in the last census they are
included in that of the whole Township.
The City of Passaic is situated ON the
right bank of the river about enc and a
half miles below Paterson. It's growth
has been very rapid, owing to the factory
facilities offered by the water-power of
the Dundee Ian and Power Company,
and also to the fact that the City is 10
Gated at the head of navigation tide
Water) of the Passaic River. 1t has also
a large and increasing residential popu-
lation.
The area of the City is about 1850 acres
of which about 1,4O0 are in the process
of being severed. The Water supply is
obtained from the Passafc Water Com
gallons per day. The sewage is designed
on the Separate System" although a
little over a mile of sewers constructed
to take both storm water and sewage is
in service. The portion of the City which
is at present being severed is divided in
six areas with seven outlets, of which two
are ON the Island (~factory s~ectien) and
discharge into the river above the tail
race; of the remaining five, two discharge
into the main tail race at Washington
Place and Passaic Street, and three into
the river below the tail race; the lowest
being at Aycrfgg Avenue The amour
of sewage, including flushing, is stated to
be about one million gallons daily, to
tory refuse and sewage discharged into
the tail race and into the i've
Delawanna in Aquackanouck Township,
is a place of small importance at the
present time.
Franklin, Nutley and AvondaIe in
Franklin Township, Essex County, are
small residential village on the Newark
and Paterson branch Of the Erie Railroad.
The water supply is derived from the
Pequannock Watershed, (East Jersey
Water Co.. but no plans for sewer have
been prepared as yet. The same is also to
be said of Belleville which has no sewrs,
but possess a water supply from the same
source, furnished by the City CT Newark.
limits of Newark, the Union sewer dts
charges the sewage from the City of
Orange, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, and Mont
clair. The area of the different municipal
Vll6S Is, LUZ LIG lily I'll ding INV dNkC0t
Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, 1854 acres,
and Montclair, 1860 acres, a total of
Of 1904 acres. The whole Of this
territory, in landscape beauty and in
creasing transit facilities, offers the great
est inducements for a rapid growth.
The water supply for Orange is derived
from a reservoir between the First and
Second Mountains, n for Bloomfield,
Glen Ridge and Montclair, from the Pc
uuannock, Cast Jersey Water Company.
The sewage system Is on the separate
plan" throughout.
East Orange, by an agreement with the
City of Newark, now discharges Its sew
age through the Mill Brook sewer. TIL
system of sewerage is designed on the.
combined PLAN hut no storm waters are
permitted to enter the waters.
The water supply of East Orange is
furnished by the Orange Water Supply
Company. from wells.
The City of Newark constitutes the
largest section of the District, and is the
District, as considered in this report.
Newark is the most important manu-
featuring city in the State, but it. is also
largely of a residential character, owing
to the great railway facilities between 1t
and New York City, and to many other
The ARA of the city Of Newark Includes
twelve square miles of upland and
nearly eight miles of salt meadows
The water supply Of the city Of Newark
mock watershed. The average consump-
ton in 1895 was @, zoo, 900 gallons daily, with
a maximum Of over 10000, 900 gallons per
day, during extreme hot and cold spells.
the combined plan" for the entire city,
and is still so for all those sewerage
areas bordering on and discharging into
the river.