The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-12-27
ANOTHER
SEWER PLAN

Robins Reef Ledge Outlet fol
PaSSaic Valley.
Expert Engineers Report Feasible
plan, Embracing Territory Occu'
pied by the Oranges and Vicinity
Covers an Area Of $4,000 Acres
Estimated Cost 100000.
The State Sewerage Commission Of
New Jersey in its annual report sub
mitted to Gov. Voorhees,, recommends
q plan for the disposal of the sewer
age Of the Passaic Valley radically
different from any heretofore consi
dered. 1t consists of scheme fo'
disposing of the sewage of the entire
Passaic Valley by means Of q termina
outlet into the heart of New 1ofh
Bay at point near Robins reel
Ledge where the water is 70 feet deep.
This point is considerable distance
inside the New Jersey State line SO
there could be no objection on the
part Of the New York authorities.
The expert engineers who made the
report are Rudolph Herring, ]. J. r.
Gross, president of the American
Society of Engineers, and VIM. r.
Brown, engineer in charge Of the
Sewerage Disposal System of Boston.
The estimate of cost of the sewers
for the daily collection of 270, 600, 600
gallons Of foul water from the Pas
sale watershed ana of its discharge in
to New York bay is as follows:
S82, 900 feet of sewer from
feet to Ii. 5 feet diameter, $3, 500, 900
lington, so,
ark ark Bay, 500, 900
Outfall pipe for discharging
100, 600, 600 gallons daily
from the west shore of
Newark Bay TO deep wa
ter in New York bay, $500, 600
land. 81, 900, 600
The territory, the sewage of which
flows into the Passaic river, comprises
portions of Passaic, Essex, Bergen
and Hudson counties, covering an
area of about 90, 200 acres. It embraces
the cities of Paterson, Passaic, New
ark, Orange and East Orange, and the
towns Of Montclair, Bloomfield. Har-
rison and Kearney; the whole or parts
Of the townships of Acquackanonk,
Franklin, Union and Belleville and
part or all of the boroughs of Garfield.
Wallington, Carlstadt, Rutherford,
East Rutherford, North Arlington.
East Newark, and Glen Ridge,
with a present population of about
$50. 200 people. Paterson, Newark,
Arlington, East New ark, Harrison and
Kearny have systems of sewerage in
operation, collecting the surface wa
ter as we'll as the sewage, and Passaic,
Orange, Bloomfield, East Orange, Mont
clair, Belleville and Rutherford have
sewers which collect the sewage only,
leaving the surface water to follow the
natural channels to the river. To
divert all sewage from the Passaic
river, it is necessary that each of the
separate municipal organizations
which border on the river should con-
struct an intercepting sewer along the
river and collect its entire sewage
and convey it to some point where it
can be satisfactorily purified and rem
dered innocuous Such disposal may
be affected in one of two ways-first
by discharging the sewage into a
large body Of flowing water, which
will dilute it sufficiently to render its
presence improbable to the senses.
or by treating it according to some
process which will remove the often
sive constituents and leave the
efiuent water which may be dis
charged into the stream without
offense.
It might be well for the Board of
Aldermen of Morristown to make
careful study Of the feasibility Of this
plan for Morristown. 1t would seem
that the cost would not be as great
and the outlet, the Robins Reef
Ledge is certainly preferable to the
one contemplated in the Kills.
Commenting on the problem, for
such it is, the Paterson Gall says: x
We think that it is the duty, there
fore, of our senator and assemblymen
to see that if this trunk sewer PROPOSE
tion is adopted the cost of the con-
struction of the gigantic engineering
work shall be borne by the state in
stead Of the municipalities along the
river.
William /. Sieger the genial New
Jersey salesman for Weston Dodson u
Co.. coal miners and operators of
Bethlehem Pa, was in town the early
partsof the week distributing calendars
similar to those which for years have
been appreciated by the numerous
friends and customers Of the concern.