The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-09
FOR PURE PEQUANNOCK
Newark Board Of Health
Takes Steps to Prevent
Pollution.
IspecIal 10 arhe Jersey city News.o1

Especial to serhe Jersey city News."1
NEWARK, May 0. 1s99.-The special in
spection Of the Pequannock watershed
ordered by the Board Of Health began
yesterday.
Sanitary Inspectors Thomas Freeman
and Andrew J. Brady, who were detailed
by Health, Officer Chandler, left for New
foundland early in the morning, and be-
fore noon they had begun their work.
The inspectors are armed with detail
maps of the territory contained in the
watershed, with reports made in the past
of other inspections, containing lists OF
positive and possible sources of pollution
along the Pequannock and its tributaries,
| and in the neighborhood of Echo Lake
and the big reservoirs at Oak Ridge, Gin
ton and Canistear.
Both inspectors are in full uniform,
the object in having them SO attired be-
| ing to convince the people with whom
they come into contact Of the official
nature of their mission.
! This inspection, when completed, viii
be the most thorough yet made. The In
| spectors know their busines and are
among the most reliable in the service OF
the Board said Health Officer Chandler
IT do not know how long the men viii
be at the work. They will perhaps finish
up in three weeks, but if it takes al
summer they will remain at the water
shed that length of time.
The inspectors will work systematic
cally. They began yesterday at the Ma
copin intake and will gradually work VI
the shed to Oak Ridge, Clinton and CAMS
tear. reservoirs. They will not only follow
the large streams, but will also follow the
| small ones. Every creek or brook will be
followed TO it's very BEGINNING and every
possible source of pollution will be noted
and reported upon. 1t is possible that al
the heads of some of the small streams
duck ponds may be found, and it is just
as necessary to abate them as more pro-
life sources"
After the inspectors have been at thelI
work for a week or ten days the Boaro
of Health will visit the watershed in a
body for inspection purposes.
Mr.. Chandler will keep in constant COM
munication with the inspectors. He VIII
spend several lays with them, to aid
them in their work. They are not to ac-
cept the conditions as stated in previous
reports on pollution sources, but are to
see for themselves everything that may
even remotely lead to the defiling of the
water supply. When the work of inspec-
ton is completed a detailed report will be
made to the Board and copies submitted
to the Board of Works and the East
Jersey Water Company.
But little more han a year will en-
sue before the city comes into full pos
session of the water plant" said Mr..
Chandler, s'and we are determined that if
the Board of Health can make it so, the
watershed will be absolutely free of pollu-
ton or any possible source thereof. We
will insist that the East Jersey Com
pany abate it's nuisances in the shed,
along with the others. The company has
a number of buildings up there, close to
running streams, and while these build
ings are not rented, we know that they
are frequently made the squatting places
of tramps, and so constitute a source of
danger. We nave already suggested that
these buildings be burned and we will
probably insist on such means being TAX
en- to get rid of them