Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-04-26
SEWER SYSTEM NOT
RIGHT" STATE BOARD
Commission Finds
Fault With
Plan Here.
AXE MAY FALL.

Three members of the State Sewer
Commission visited this city yester-
day and inspected a number of the
local sewers, including the part of the
proposed Sheridan street trunk sew
er which empties into the Raritan riv-
er near the Chesebrough vaseline
works.
The commission is greatly dissat-
isfied with the present sewage system
should be double system adopted,
with catch basin so as to allow the
rainfall and surface water to flow in
to the river and the house sewage to
flow into a basin where it could be
purified before reaching the river
The commission said that 120 COM
plants have been received in regard
to the contaminated water in the
Raritan river and they are anxious
to have the double system adoptsd.
Acknowledging Pfeiffer said this
morning that the commission is look
ing out for the future and that in all
probability such a system will have to
mission so DEGREES.
The State Commission practically
approved the sewers that are now in
use, but from their remarks it appears
that they intend to have the city
build all sewers in the future on the
double plan. For this reason the
commissioners visited this city yester-
day to examine the course of the
Sheridan street sewer, and should
they refuse to allow the sewer to he
built according to the present plans,
it would mean that the cost of build
ing the sewer in accordance with the
double system would increase the cost
about one-half as much again as the
present contract price. Mayor Boil
schweiler talked with the commission
on the subject and stated that the
city is hardly in position at the
present time to make the change and
that as the western part of the city is
in need of a sewer at once, this fact
should be taken into consideration.
The commission will meet again
on Monday, at which time they will
decide as to whether or not the city
can build the Sheridan street sewer
under the present plans.
Would Cost Much to Change All.
Mayor Bollschweiler and Alder
man-at-large Pfeiffer both regard the
proposition as a serious one, and
when the number of sewers that are
at present time in use here is taken
into consideration, the enormity OF
the difficulty is easily seen. To change
the entire sewage system OF the cits'
to the double system might cost any
where from a quarter of million 70
a half million dollars.
One of the state commissioners
said yesterday that in oysters taken
as samples from the Raritan river,
bacilli of disease were found, and for
this reason, they are fighting against
the outlet or refuse from houses into
the river. The commission, it is said,
is making an effort to have the dou-
BILE system adopted in nearly every
city In the state.
The commission arrived on the
1922 O'Clock train and in stage
visited the site of the outlet of the
sewer, $ accompanied by Chairman
Stacey of the street committee, Mayor
Bollschweiler, Alderman-at-large
Pfeiffer, City Surveyor Forrest l..
Smith, City Attorney G. G. Hommann
and Street Commissioner Fullerton.
After inspecting the course of the
Sheridan street sewer the commits
sioners visited the outlet of the sew
ers at Madison avenue, South First
and South Second streets. They left
this city at O'Clock.