The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-22
SURVEY
Al NJ OST
READY
To Run From New Found.
land to Below Intake
Near CharlOtteSburg.

The preliminary survey of the pro-
posed route of the sewer from New
Foundland to below the intake of the
Pequannock watershed. to be built to
prevent the contamination of the
watershed property. is near completion,
and in a week or ten days the engineers
in charge will be ready to make a re-
port to the Board of Works. That
body will then order plans and specih-
cations for the work drawn and submit
them for approval to the State Sewer
age Commission. II approved by the
State board, the local body will adver-
tise for bids, and the Common Council
will be asked to make a bond issue
covering the approximate cost OF the
work.
The proposed route of the sewer is
through the watershed property a dis
lance of about five miles, from New
Foundland to the intake below Char
lottesburg. The surveying of the route
has been going on for h last two
years.
The Board of Works have had to
overcome considerable opposition from
the residents of New Foundland since
the sewer ndSa OCth PlOBOpCNf ohh was
threatened with law suits II the line
was u through several pieces of pri-
waite property. The owner of one strip
in particular, that On which the New
Foundland Hotel is situated, fought
against the proposed line of the sewer,
taking the stand that 1t would cut off
the hotel and ruin its d~esirability as a
place of residence.
Last year a bill was introduced in the
Legislature giving cities having a
water supply outside the city the right
to protect the same against pollution.
The bill was smothered in committee,
but this year a similar measure was
introduced and passed.
The act is entitled an act authorizing
cities having a public water supply de-
rived from sources beyond the city limits
to protect the same from pollution by pro-
viding for any portion of the territory from
which such water is derived or through
which 1t flows a system Of sewers or
drains in order to take UP. carry off and
dispose of the sewerage and other pollut-
ing matter, and providing also for the rails
ing and expenditure of the money neces-
sary for the purpose"
To cover the opposition of the Newfound-
landers a section was inserted in the bill
L duLilbIiLiHB III 1it W ~ VII ohS ~
property and connect all private sewers
with the main sewer. The act also pro
vldes the where the sewerage Is improp-
erly handled the city shall be authorized
to enter on the said premises and install
such drains or sewers as they think neces-
sary, and further provides that the prop
erty owners shall not dispose of theil
sewerage or other polluting matter In any
other means than that provided by the
.ro,o~oI pion onprouod hU the Gtpfa hoard
Section -four provides that to- connect
private sources of pollution the city car
make necessary excavations on private an,
public property without the consent o
the owner of the property, and that tn
said owner shall have no redress excep
that the city does not restore the land
to their original condition.
One of the most important sections o
the act and one that covers the poin
where the city has felt the most opposition
Is section ten, which provides that thu
city has the right to tresspass on any
lands to make the preliminary survey be
fore the condemnation proceedings have
been instituted. and shall have the righf
under proper regulations to construct sucf
sewers under, over or along any public
road or highway.
In procuring the funds necessary for the
CARRYING on of the work the act provides
that the Common Council or other gov
erning body of such city having contro
Of its finance may, at the request Of the
BODY governing the water supply. cause
bonds of such city to be issued to the
amount not to exceed 100000 and to nego-
tiate and sell the same at not less than
their mar. value, and further provides that
the bonds may run for a period not ex-
cecding fifty years from the date issue
and be of such denomination and form,
PAYABLE with interest not exceeding 4 per
centum per annum. payable ~semi-annually
as the Common Council or other governing
body shall determine by resolution. 1t
| further provides that the body govern
ing the water supply shall pay the sink
ing fund commissioners not less than /
per centum Of the face value OF such
bonds to provide a sinking fund for the
payment of the principal when it falls due.
This is rendered ineffective In his case
by the following provision of this section
of the act which states that 1t Is effect
i've only when the funds under control or
such board are not otherwise pledged or
appropriated.
OF vital interest to the taxpayers Is the
further provision of the act which re-
quires that II the funds are found IN
sufficient to cover the work the~Common
Council shall make good the deficiency,
dllQ the SUM thBfiiAt0
annual tax levy of the city.
It will be some time. II is expected De
fore the Board of Works will be prepared
to submit The report Of the preliminary
survey to the state Commission. then
some time will be lost in advertising for
bids and getting the Common Council to
appropriate the money necessary Tor the
carrying out of the work.
Commissioner Augustus Eggers. or the
Board OF Works; Wilson J. Vance, Mayor
Haussling's private secretary. and Joseph
Wolber. private secretary to City Engi-
neer Morris r. Sherrerd, went over the
proposed route of the ever with the
engineers Saturday, and found that the
work Of surveying and stalking is prac-
ticany finished.
They also noticed the progress In the re-
foresting of the water shed property.
Since the scheme was ~inauSurated last
spring by Commissioner Eggers, State For
ester Gaskill has set out 10000 young trees
and planted seeds in some 200 acres of land
In the hollow. The State Forester has
also established a nursery on n natural
plateau below the superintendent house
at Charlottsburg and is growing thousands
of seedlings for setting out In the fall and
spring. This fall tie thinning out of the
natural woodlands on the property will be
begun under the supervision of the State
Forester, and the wood thinned out will be
sold to the mills and the money derived