The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-30
WILL DISCUSS SEWERS
A Plan Said to be Feasible, and
Reasonable In Cost.

Representatives Of New York Sanitary
sewer Company to Apes Before the
Town Council-some Details of Their
system.
A representative Of 1.-The Sanitary
Sewer and Sewage Utility Company Of
New York. has been in town during the
week. in the interest of his company,
and with view to securing its adoption.
For the purpose of bringing the matter
before the Board of Aldermen. he will
be present at the regular monthly meet
ing, which will be held on Friday night,
January 6.
In an interview with Mayor Quayle, r.
Fl. Bohm, the company's representative,
said his system was in successful opera
ton in Atlantic City, Asbury Park and
elsewhere in ths vicinity Of New York.
The company announces the following
as their method Of treating sewage:
ITO commence with, we donot depend
upon natural grades or natural outlets.
Our system admits of this method, for
the reason that well or a reservoir for
the sewage is dug at the outlet OF the
sewer pipes, deep enough to accomplish
this purpose, and of sufficient diameter
TO hold the measured flow of the sewers.
Connection may be made with series
of such sewers SO as to convey the sew
age to receiver at the end OF their
town or township.
I'm cities where sewers have been con-
structed, we can build our receivers at
or near their present outlet, or we can
change the grade of same sewer pipes so
as to make the sewage matter run into
our own receivers. From these receivers
the sewage is pumped into patented
apparatus, dual in character, the first
compartment of which is synergetic in
action and contains ingredients, absorb
ent, disinfectant in quality, but not de-
structive to the germ or manurial proper
ties, and there, by natural process, the
solids, together with the PHOSPHORUS,
amnonias, ETC., are absorbed and ex-
tracted, being rendered at the same time
into bromo guano, allowing the liquid
portion to trickle through perforations
SO arranged that they fall upon a filter
bed (the second section of the apparatus)
Of improved character from those ordi-
narily used, thus setting the efHuent
waters free from all albuminoids and
other deleterions substances, without
fear or injury.
sThe contents of the first compart-
ment when impregnated become an ex-
ceedingly valuable compound, with a
market value of not less than $50 per
ton, at a cost not exceeding 81 per ton 70
produce, thus making the process a
cheap as well as thoroughly sanitary
one.
"It:s needless to go into recital OF
the dangers arising from the present
imperfect system of sewers, or the defects
of the various so-called disposal mot
utilizatiop) processes, which all sooner
or later, allow the filter to putrify. there
by breeding disease germs and polluting
the atmosphere with stencil.
sour process, novel inits operation and
mechanical arrangement, is free from
all these objections, and is not a mere
experiment. but the result of years of
practical application and familiarity
with the subject"
Il is stated that this company will
introduce complete system Of sewers
in Morristown, if granted franchise,
and operate it as a private corporation
for period of five, ten or fifteen years,
then sell it to the town at a price to be
agreed upon, which is not to exceed cost
and interest upon same, or it will build
and sell to the town upon completion.
In Atlantic City, it is claimed, the net
profit last year was over $40, 900; the city
owning and operating the plant. A
charge of forty cents for each room in a
dwelling was made.