Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-12
PASSA|C SEWER
MAY Be IGNORED
By By EAST ORANGE
Council Believes City Can Save
100000 by Following Bos-
ton Engineers Plans.

The special committee appointed sew
eral months ago to devise pfAn of car
ing for East Orange sewage, of which
Councilman Edward s. Pierson is chair
man, made its report to the City Coun-
ell last night and recommended that
the city adopt the scheme Of Harrison
p. Eddy. consulting engineer. of Bos-
ton. Orange. Montclair, Bloomfield and
Glen Ridge will be asked to join. No
action was taken by the council, but
several hundred reports will be print
ed and circulated and conferences had
with the other four municipalities.
Under the plan II would cost the city
for an outlet sewer with a purifying
plant In the meadows ss1s.o0o; If East
Orange and Montclair Join, $1.0S6, 900.
and II the five municipalities unite,
$1.540. 900.
The plan is one Of sedimentation and
filtration. securing land by condemna-
tion for q right of way About fifty
acres would have to be secured II all
unite. and it Is thought no trouble
would be encountered in getting the
ground.
Outlet In HacIensack River.
The idea most favored now is to have
the outlet In the Hackensack. going
under the Passaic river at the Erie
railroad bridge and by tunnel under
the Arlington hfll. An alternative route
would be to the Passaic. but 1t is
thought too much trouble would be en-
countered at the railroad tracks. The
report of the committee reads:
Mr.. Eddy was recommended to
to your committee as one of the best
qualified consulting engineers In the
country to take up this matter, go
over 1t thoroughly, and make a report
that would show conclusively whether
or not there could be found a method
of sewerage publication and disposal
that would be more satisfactory and
less expensive than that proposed by
the Passaic Valley Drainage Commits
sion.
1T Is the opinion of the members of
your committee that the matter has
been Investigated with great skill and
care and that the report has been care
fully prepared and that it shows con-
clusively that East Orange alone or
together with the other four residential
municipalities named above can secure
a system of sewerage publication and
disposal that has been thoroughly
tested and is now in operation in
other cities of this country and Eng
land at cost of approximately one
half of the estimated cost of joining
in the Passaic Valley drainage scheme,
Unless otherwise directed by the City
Council your committee intends to sub
NIT this report to the authorities of
Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield and
Glen Ridge with a view of having
them consider Joining in the plan pro-
posed and II found necessary to Sc
cure such legislation as would permit
of this combination.
Others Ind0rse Plan.
This report Of Mr.. Eddy is indorsed
by other engineers who have read 1t
and it gives us a definite plan to work
on, even IL better methods of purifica-
ton should later be found and adopted.
We call your attention to the fact that
joining in the Passaic valley drainage
proposition would involve a bond issue
of the city of East Orange OF approx
mately $1,000,000, and according to the
estimate made by the Passaic Valley
Drainage Commission of the total flow
of sewage that of East Orange would
be about az per cent. of the total. and
still the plan contemplates charging
East Orange with 7h per cent of the
cost of the great undertaking.
On account of the injustice of the
share of cost put upon East Orange
and on account of the enormous bond
issue required the committee recon-
mends to the City Council that the
city shall not join in the Passaic val
ley drainage scheme. but shall build
its own outfall sewers to tidewater and
thoroughly purify the sewage by such
plan as suggested by Mr.. Eddy IN
this report, unless a better plan OF
publication Is submitted to the City
Council or its committee"
Mr.. Pierson said after the meeting
tf-r. tae Eddy plan provides for better
publication than is proposed by the
commission, and believes the greatest
trouble of the latter body will be with
publication. which is said to be ad-
mitted.