The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-25

TOWNSHIP
Refuses Application Of Sewer.
age Commission to Locate
Plant Within Township.
MANY PROTESTS RECEIVED.

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continued the hearing on the applica-
tion of the Morristown Sewerage Com
mission for permission to lay pipes
and the main sewer in Morris town,
ship and erect disposal works there on
Monday evening. A number of citi-
zens and taxpayers were present. 1t
had been reported that communica-
tion had been sent Withdrawing the
application, but no such letter came
to hand at night, neither was any
representative of the commission
present.
A communication was received from
Mrs. Catlin protesting against the
proposed location of the plant and a
letter from James F. Maury, stating
that the filter beds should be so far
away from town as to be out of all
possible smell when not working
properly and should have from twen-
ty-tive to fifty acres of land available
for the beds. He considered the plant
too near town and urged that the
work be started right.
G. g. Frelinghuysen called atten-
tion to the possibilities under the
sewerage act of a connection with the
Morris Plains plant and the relief of
that neighborhood to the hurt of his
section. He urged as condition of
permitting crossing of the township
that the plant be located a mile be-
yond it's borders. Whatever the COM
mittee or citizens can do to push the
plant furthur out will, he believed, in
three years bring them the thanks Of
the town people. He said it did not
seem to him that the committee could
make contract as suggested by the
commissioners under the power grant,
ed such committees.
Alexander @. Humphreys registered
his objection as an engineer. He said
he had given the matter considerable
study during the week and considered
himself qualified to speak on the ques-
tions raised. Whatever he said would
be for the good of the town, as he saw
it. He expressed his sorrow at the
absence of the young engineers who
made the report to the sewer commits
sioners and declared tnat they are alb
solutely wrong in certain items of the
data from which they made their re-
port. His researches do not support
the $70,C additional cost which they
claim or anywhere near it. If their
report is so faulty in the points here,
it throws question on all their find
ings.
John Clafiin said the matter affects
the town in general. He had not ex-
pressed an opinion because he had
thought that the proposed site was at
least two miles from the principal
railroad station and had only recently
learned his mistake. 1t is the gravest
mistake the town can do to locate as
near as the site suggested. The town
has been settled for it's healthful rep
utation and it would be incredible
that In planning to prevent possible
bad conditians mistake should be
made. Fifty to one hundred acres
should De secured for the plant. The
other end of the town has been in
jured, at least as far as the price of
real estate is concerned, by the pres
ence Of the asylum and a disposal
plant should not be located 50 close to
the other end. 1t cannot fail to in
jure the school enormously Better
wait three or four years than for the
town to take step which seems GER
tainly harmful now and must be un-
done in few years. He asked the
committee to withhold consent.
Mr.. Brown said that much emphasis
had been placed on the result of the
election, but it seemed that the peo-
pie thought that they were not voting
on the site but on the general propo-
sition of sewers or no sewers, on which
nearly all are agreed.
Richard McEwan asked Morris to
help in the struggle to get the plant
located where the town can afford to
pay all the direct damages.
Chairman Clark said he heard the
petition was to be withdrawn aid was
surprised at the non-appearance OF
either letter or representatives. The
township and town must work to-
gether from their location, but he did
not like the idea of dumping the town
filth where the commission wanted.
f. s. Smith was called on by the
committee and spoke for the high
ground near the proposed site, which
can give lot room for three hundred
houses.
Committeeman Barton said he lived
at Morris Plains and knew of the
complaints there. He did not believe
in emptying filth under some other
persons nose when he does not want
it.
1t was moved and carried that the
application for the location of the
plant be refused, and the matter OF
the street pipes be taken up at the
regular meeting on July 8.