The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-06-21

of Elizabeth have organized under Chapter
80, OF the laws of 1899, TO build trunk sewer
from Summit to tidewater at Bay-Way on the
Staten Islsnd Kills. they will, in all pr0ba-
bility commence such construction within the
next three months. Your committee believes
it will be feasible for Us to obtain consent to
join with them, il such should be the desire of
this Board and application is made within a
reasonable time before these municipalities
make their contracts.
To make this connection, however. 1t will be
necessary for us to build an independent line
from the town outlet to the Chatham
bridge, on the east side OF the Passaic river,
from that point a tunnel would have TO be
constructed through the Summit hill to unite
with the main trunk sewer on the eastern
side.
That portion of Summit which lies on the
western slope of this hill would in all proba.
bility unite with us in the construction and
use OF this tunnel, bearing of course their pro-
per proportion of the cost
We shall also have to bear the additional eX-
pense of the enlarged main sewer from the
eastern Summit inlet to tidewater.
The estimated cost of this system of taking
the sewerage of the town from our outlet to
tideware for capacity Of l,COO, 900 gallons per
day Is S2S0,t00.
about $4,000 which capitalized at $50, 900
would make the cost of the trunk sewer plan
S33O, 600, not including the cost of right of way
to Summit.
Regarding disposal beds there is a serious ques-
tion as to their efficiency after few years OF
Certain municipalities in this State that have
duUpleu luls pltu nave dDbuuOutu IL anu OJHSTb
find themselves subject to litigation, Many ex-
perts who favored filtration In one form another
are constrained to admit that IL Ia still in the
perimental stage. While the system OF disposal
beds is in the first instance, cheaper to construct,
the question at once arises as to whether In the
course OF few years, we should not have to
abandon the plant thus losing the money Invested
neither can we forsee to what expense we might be
subjected in defending ourselves against the charge
OF maintaining public nuisance.
| While the trunk sewer system is in the first in
,,aixt
pect that it will meet wants practically for all
/ time.
Against the trunk sewer there have been but
/ two objections advanced, one is that at perhaps
some future time the discharge at the proposed
outlet at tidewater might be enjoined as nui-
/ sance At the intended point OF discharge The
Arthur Kill is about 800 feet wide with depth of
| iiy OF three miles per hour ard experiments have
shown that sewerage discharged at that point fol
| lows the u-se OF the channel through Newark
/ Bay into upper New York Bay. The Staten
Island shore opposite the proposed outlet and for
u distance of several miles is nothing but salt
marshes. On the Jersey shore both above and
below the outlet salt marshes and few factor.
les In the immediate vicinity there is fertilizer
factory on one side and wire factory on the
other.
/ The solid portion of the sewerage which would
amount to about in 1000 is carried along in
pension in "a body of water the volume of which to
/ the volume OF solid matter is equal to about
\ 800 O00 to /. 1t seems ridiculous TO talk about
such flow of sewerage creating nuisance.
/ The consent OF the State Board of Health to the
proposed location Of the outlet has been obtained,
! they having certified that the discharge at The
! point proposed, " will not in any manner preju-