The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-13
PASSAIC MUST Be
PURIFIED
Immediate Relief Is I'm
perative Says East New
ark's Council.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED
RESOLUTIONS
PASSED
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION FOR
THE FURTHERANCE OF THE
WORK. STRONGLY RECON-
4 MENDED.


Resolutions declaring that it is imper-
ative that the Passaic River should be
relieved at once from sewage pollution
was passed by the East Newark Borough
COUNSEL at its meeting this week The
resolutions went ON to say
The contamination of the river is
caused BY the emptying of sewage there
in by the various municipalities: by di-
minishing the flow of the natural feeders
by the taking therefrom by the East Jer-
sey Water Company and other private
water companies of water naturally in
tended for the river. Therefore be it
enacted by the Mayor and council of the
Borough Of East Newark
First, That immediate steps should
be taken to prevent the emptying of sew
age and factory refuse and other refuse
into the Passaic River;
Second, That all public potable water
rights should be at once secured by the
State for the use of the people, to the
end that they may have the sole benefit
of God Given water rights that have been
and are being wrongly diverted for pri-
vate profit by private water companies
to the detriment of the people;
Third, That the Morris Canal should
not be abandoned, except by reserving
to the State for the use of the people of
the State all the rights of the State and
all natural sources of water supply;
Fourth, That the occasional. foods
that come down the Passaic Valley are
necessary for the cleansing Of the river
bed, and. except for the abolition of ar
tifcial barriers erected along the upper
Passaic, nothing should be done to stop
those floods; therefore the recently ere
ated flood commission that threatens un-
limited expense on the people should be
abolished.
That for the purpose of purifying the
river at once we favor the formation of
permanent organization for the purif-
cation and protection of the Passaic
River, such organization to consist of the
Mayor or other executive of each munich
pality causing sewage to be emptied into
the Passaic River, and each municipality
affected thereby, besides two other rep
resentatives from each such municipality
to be appointed by the executive officer OF
governing body of such municipality.
The object of such organization to be the
publication of the Passaic River and the
protection of said river from pollution by
sewage or other causes the prevention
of diversion of the headwaters of the
river for any other purpose than sup
plying the people of this State with
water for ordinary use. and the preven-
ton of any and every scheme tending to
diminish the natural flow of the water in
said river.
That if Paterson will not agree to
come in with all the other municipalities
we favor the combination Of all the other
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municipalities against Paterson; but We
insist that the proper thing to do is fol-
the State to exercise its supreme power
to compel all municipalities that pollute
the Passaic River with sewage and
other refuse to unite to abate the nui
sance that has become intolerable and te
share in the expense of the abatement OF
the nuisance"
The resolutions were presented by
Councilman Kenworthy, after they had
been considered by Mayor Kenny and
the members of the council who met as
d committee of the whole during recess
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