The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-01
EXTENSION
ESTIMATES
What It VIII Cost to Extend
the Sewer System Down
to the Hid Farm.
1T WILL APPROXIMATE $4,000
Morristown, N. j., Sept. II, 1907.
To THE BOARD OF SEWERAGE,
MoRRIsTowN, N. j.

Gentlemen :-On May IA, 1905, we
reported to you on the additional cost
of building the disposal plant on the
Hid Farm, as being an amount in ex-
cess of the cost of building the same
on the Whitnall Tract.
This report and estimate were based
on map furnished US by your Board
and marked by you as Exhibit NJ
This map indicated the route of the
extension of the trunk sewer to the
Hid Farm, and our estimate was fol
this route.
This route we understand was 10,
Gated for your Board by parties who
offered it as feasible route for a trunk
sewer to the Hid Farm.
We wish to call to your notice that
to build the sewer along this line
would require considerable cut of &c
to 35 feet deep. 1t would also require
about LOCO feet of 26 foot cut, and
about 7C0 to 800 feet of Is foot cut.
We need hardly call your attention
to the fact that to one versed in sewer
construction, depth. such as these, il
not physically prohibitive, are finan-
cially SO.
On July 9Th you gave US instructions
to choose route for an extension oil
The trunk sewer to the Hid Farm, and
to choose a location for the Disposal
Plant on the Hid Farm, and prepare
an estimate of cost for the same.
TRUNK LINE EXTENDED.
Acting under those instructions lines
of protiles have been run to the Hid
Farm, and the line whichSin our judge.
ment offers the most advantages, sell
ected and its cost estimated. This
route is shown on an accompanying
map.
You expressed as your opinion that
a line calling for the least amount of
private ways is the most desirable.
The nature of the country between
the Whitnall and Hid Farms is such,
however, that the question of private
ways must receive little consideration.
The problem involved in the extern
sion of the trunk sewer is essentially
that of crossing the creek which Rms
through the McEwan Farm.
Practically there are two ways this
may be done, i. e. by Siphoning across
it, or by making fill across the dip in
Ridgedale avenue to accommodate a
gravity line. Such fill would extend
for approximately 600 feet, at a depth
of TO feet.
Another solution proposed is that OF
running around its source, and keep
| ing the trunk in high ground. This
requires longer line, and some $500
feet OF private way across the farms
OF Burke, Mccormack and Pillion.
There are no adequate reasons fol
selecting this route on the grounds OF
feasibility or cost, and further than
giving it preliminary investigation
we did not consider it.
The route chosen as shown on the
map, crosses the Whitnall Tract, the
Morristown & Erie Railroad, and the
Mcintyre Tract, and enters Ridgedale
avenue at the corner of McEwan's
Farm, thence along Ridgedale avenue
to the farm of Mrs. Mary NJ. Cox
Here it enters private way across
her property and the property OF Will
liam b. Parker, following approx
mately contour 275. TO the septic tank
on the Hid Farm, requiring approx
mately $500 feet of private way, the
cost of which we have not considered
We believe this to be the best anc
cheapest line that could be selected tt
reach the Hid Farm.
We estimate the cost Of this line as
| follows.