The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-05
HILL DRAINAGE.
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Board of HealthsC Committee,
Reports on ConditiOnsOf
Hudson ity,SeWers.
INADEQUATE FOR THE DISTRICT
Plan Recommended By Which
the Unsanitary Flooding
May Be Relieved.
INADEQUATE FOR THE DISTRICT

The Second Ward Improvement Assocfa-
ton, Hudson City Improvement Associa-
ton and citizens generally in the neigh
borhood of Hoboken ayenueya and the foot
Of the Hill have from time to time COM
planned about the intolerabls nuisance
caused by the insufficient means Of carry
ing off the sewage from the Hill and the
natural result of establishing pools OF
stagnant water on the meadows to the
north of the Erie Railroad tracks.
The attention of the Board OF Health
having been directed to the disgraceful
state of affairs, that Board appointed a
committee consisting of Drs. H. H. Brink
erhof and J. M Rector to investigate and
report. The report has been made and
it was sent yesterday to the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners for some
action by that body. The report was is
sued at yesterdays meeting. 1t was as
follows:-
''Gentlemen-Your committee appointeds
to investigate and report upon a plans
relieving the nuisance existing onFHebo-
ken avenue. from the Thirteenth& streets
viaduct to the foot of the hill, make this
report
1--WE have visited the locality and find
that property owners living onsthe east
side of Palisade avenue drain all their
waste water over the brow of the hill
into a sewer running under the sidewalk
on the west side of Hoboken avenue.
Many of these houses make no attempt
to connect with this sewer, having the
open end of the house drains projecting
from the edge of the hill, permitting the
waste water to run down over the rocks,
making quite a considerable stream,
which finds its way over the sidewalk
and through the sewer opening in the
streets to the small sewer under the
sidewalk. A great deal of this sewage
remains on the surface of the ground,
forming foul-smelling, stagaant pools of
filthy matter
1T was noticed that few of the prop
| erty owners near the viaduct had covered
these pools with the grass cut from
! lawns In many cases the water con-
| tinues its course over the sidewalk. max
ing it impossible. That potion of the
sewage fortunate enough to find its way
| into the sewer manholes is carried across
Hoboken avenue by a small drain pipe
and emptied into various triangles form
ed by the West Shore Railroad and filed
in property. and having no outlet from
THESE places remains there ana becomes
stagnant and foul smelling.
1T will thus be seen that all the drain-
age and waste from the houses on the
east side of Pahsade avenue is in reality
not carried off in any sewer, but remains
on the surface of the ground and be-
comes a nuisance to the public and detri-
mental to the public health, and your
| committee so considers it.
with the members of the Hudson City
Improvement Association we have consid-
cred two sets of plans proposed. by the
city's engineering department. to relieve
| this condition, and in our opinion the fol-
| lowing plan is the most satisfactory
"Plan of a sewer from 100 feet north OF
Thirteenth street viaduct down Hoboken
| avenue to and connecting with the Jersey
| avenue sewer. Such a sewer as this we
| believe most feasible, as it will not only
| relieve the drainage from east side of Ho-
boken avenue, but will also relieve the
| condition of the flooding of Hoboken ave-
nue. at the West Shore Railroad tracks,
| AT times it is almost impossible to get UP
Hoboken avenue. Especially is this so
during the winter when the street be-
comes frozen pond.
Respectfully,
III. H. BRINKERHOFF. NJ. D.,
u. NJ. RECTOR"
| The report was referred to the Commit-
tee on Sewers which committee will rec-l