The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-29
POLLUTION'S END.
State Sewerage Board Starts
to Purify the Pas
sale.
CONFERENCE OF OFFICIALS
Plans for Disposing of Sewage
Discussed at a Con-
ference.

The New Jersey sewerage CoInInlSSloif
ers held an important meeting IN this city
yesterday afternoon. Some time ago the
| commission sent out letters to the various
municipalities that severed into the Pas-
sale River asking them to send represen-
tatives to a conference to decide how long
each municipality will require to PROVIDE
means for the disposal of its sewage
other than emptying into the Passalc.
These letters were sent to the cities OF
Newark Paterson, Passaic, Orange and
East Orange, the boroughs of Rutherforo,
East Newark and Glen Ridge, the towns
of Kearny and Montclair, and the town
ships of Bloomfield and Harrison Yes
terday was the day appointed Ior tnls
conference and there were present.
Mayor John Hinchliffe of Paterson, Mayor
C. M. Howe, F. C. Streckfus and G.E.Hli
consulting engineer of Passaic H. "
Crawford, Town Attorney T.. j. AdaIns'
Councilman o. B. Gould and William M.
Raker of the Engineering News" rep
resenting Montclair; F. Franz Berg, CITY
Engineer B. F. Crane of Orange; mayor
f. 7. Turner, Councilman o. F. CUM anu
City Engineer Watson OF Rutnerloru'
civ Engineer J. J. Thompson OIL BLOOM
field
The meeting was opened by Commls-
s;onar Harrington who, in the absence In
Europe of William T. Hunt, president OIL
the Roard nresided. Mr.. Harrington ex-
planned why the invitation to the CONFER
anoa was sent out. The Commissioners
had found that the Passaic was poliuteu
and under authority of the act OF the
Legislature had given notice that tnat
pollution must stop. The law requires
the Board to stop the pollution IN nVe
years and the conference had peen caheo
in order to ascertain what time each mu-
nicipality would require to change lts
sewerage system so as to conform to the
law. He called upon Passaic, and city
Engineer Wise said that Paterson would
be ready as soon as any other municipal
ity but the city would have to secure
legislation to enable it to issue bonds,
and that would take time. He thought,
however. that the work could be done in
four years.
Mr.. Thompson, for Bloomfield, thought
that his township would require the
same time
When Montclair was called Mr.. Gould
said he had not come to the conference in
any official capacity. He would not say
what the officials would do, and he did
not want them bound by anything he
said He thought it would take Mont
clair as long as it would take Bloomfield
as the two townships had joint sewer
Colonel Fuller explained to Mr.. Gould
that no one was bound by what any one
said at the meeting. The Commissioners
were authorized by law to stop the poiiu-
ton of the Passaic within five years. ana
when they served notice upon munlcl-
paIity to stop emptying its sewage INTO
the River that would have to be done. Ihe
object of the conference was to ascertain
the time each municipality would require
to change it's sewerage system SO that the
Commissioners could act intelligently IN
the matter Mr.. Gould then said that ms
township would be ready as soon as the
others to make the change.
Speaking for Orange, Engineer crane
said that the time in which his city Wouio
be ready would depend upon which system
of disposal was decided upon. It would
be necessary to prepare plans and surveys
before he could tell how long it would be
before his city could make a change. He
advised the adoption of the plan recon-
mended by Engineer Fteley of the Pol
luton Commission, as the best solution
of the difficulty.
Mr.. Turner, of Rutherford, said his
borough was ready to take care of its
sewage at short notice. City Engineer
Watson said that most of the sewage of
Rutherford emptied into the Hackensack,
but about rs 600 gallons per day went into
the Passaic The authorities would soon
be able to take care of this unless the
expense was 50 large that the Legislature
would have to be asked for authority to
issue bonds. This brought out an ex-
PLANTATION by Mr.. Gunz of the law under
which municipalities of the Rutherford
class were able to borrow money on bonds.
This law fixed a limit which Rutherford
had reached. The township had consid-
cred several plans, but had rejected them
all as being too expensive. He thought it
would be best for the town to pump its