The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-02
The Matter has. Been Appealed to the
State Board of sewerage.

on Saturday evening.
The following letter was handed
Mayor Bennell which he has turned
over to the board of sewerage:
Mayor Bennell understands that the
law in regard TO the execution of the
contract is mandatory and he is simp-
ly waiting in hopes the remonStrants
and board may get together.
The board of sewerage are advised
by counsel that it has no authority to
exceed the estimates, and as no def
mite guaranty has been offered does
not see the way clear to make any
change in the plans.
To Honorable Alexander Bennell, Ma
yor of the Town of Morristown
We, the undersigned, residents of
Morristown and Morris and Hanover
| Townships, respectfully submit to your
Honor that the proposed location of
the sewage disposal works near the
bridge over the Whippany River on
Hanover Avenue will be serious det-
riment to the growth and development
of Morristown and the Township of
Morris and Hanover.
We have presented objections to
this location to the Board of Sewerage
and have offered to take the Whitnall
property, paying them therefor what
they gave for 1t and giving them a
right of way across it for their pipe
line; we have offered them an option
on farm of one hundred and forty
acres located about one mile further
down the Whippany valley, which our
engineers have reported favorably
situated and adapted for the disposal
works, to which the sewage would
run from the Whitnall property with
out additional pumping.
To this proposition the engineers of
the Board of Sewerage replied that
the evtra cost would be Seventy Thou
sand Dollars exclusive of the right of
way and cost of site. and that the dis
posal plant would have to be re-de-
| signed.
We have had estimates made of the
proposed change and are informed
that the additional pipe line would
cost less than Thirty-five Thousand
Dollars, and that very great saving
would be made in getting rid of the
concrete retaining wall designed to
prevent the water from the river over
| flowing the Whitnall disposal plant.
We are informed that most of the
right of way would be given, and the
additional cost of the one hundred and
forty acres above the cost of the
Whitnall property would be paid by
subscription.
We have asked the Board of Sew
erage for detailed statement on
which the estimate of Seventy Thou
sand Dollars additional is based and
now await their reply that we may
have our engineers figures compared
with theirs.
We have made many efforts to
have this proposed menace to our
health and the health of all that part
OF Morristown north of Morris Ave-
nue. remedied by the Board of Sewer
age and have every reason to believe
that our suggestions are for the good
OF Morristown, and therefore pray that
your Honor will not execute the con-
tracts for the work proposed until the
figures and cost of the proposed
change are fully gone into by your
HONOR
Upon receiving the detailed esti-
mate of the Engineers of the Board
of Sewerage as to the alleged in
creased cost of changing the proposed
location of the sewage disposal plant,
we Will submit such estimate, and the
figures of our engineers, to your
Honor, and we suggest that you then
have the same gone over and exam
ined by the Town Engineer.
Should the Board of Sewerage in
sist upon locating said disposal plant
upon the Whitnall property, it will
compel extensive litigation, the ex.
pense of which is uncertain and may
exceed the allowance made for legal
expenses, and possibly compel the re-
moval of the works from the proposed
site on the Whitnall property should
they have been erected there, in
which event their entire cost would
be lost, as well as the opportunity of
obtaining the property now offered
free of cost.
We remain,
Very respectfully yours,
B. Ogden Chisolm, Georgianna Stone,
Frances H. Catlin, G. G. Frlinghuy-
sen by G. G. Frelinghuysen, Morris
| town School by F. G. woodman
(Headmaster). McEwan Brothers
by r. w. McEwan, Alex. C. Hum
phreys, Morgan Smith for A. Nj. X.
Smith. R. H. Thomas, A. F. Hyde,
John o. H. Pitney. John Clafin,
Grinnell Willis. John G. w. Kuehl,
Susie A. Cobb. Emily L. Ford.
A petition signed by sixteen proper
ty owners was presented to the State
Sewerage Commission at its meeting
on Thursday at Jersey City, asking
that body TO revoke its approval Of
the plans of the Morristown sewer
system and disposal works, stating
thirteen reasons as objections to the
plan. The commission decided to hold
/ a public meeting at two O'Clock ON