Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-17
BOARD MOVES To
END THREATENED
WATER FAMINE
Adopts Resolutions to Cooperate
With Paterson, Passaic, Mont
clair and Other Cities.
TO ASK STATE WATER
COMMISSION TO AID
Appropriates' $1,000 to Defray
Expense OF Providing Maps,
Plans and Incidentals.

| 1t developed at today's meeting of the
Board of Works that owing to the long
continued drought and the consequent
| low condition of water in the eity's re-
serve reservoir that 1t will be necessary
to Immediately provide an additional
water supply to meet the requirements
of the city. 1t is proposed, in a reso-
luton presented by Commissioner Den
man and adopted by the board, to CO.
operate with Paterson, Passaic, Mont
clair and other towns in creating a
tSint water supply, preferable through
the development of the Wanaque river,
and thus afford the city an adequate
and very desirable reserve water sup
ply.
The Common Council is asked to re-
quest the State Water Supply Commits
sion to prepare maps, plans and spec1fl-
cations for furnishing such supply as
the city needs with an estimate of the
probable cost of the same. The sum of
81, 600 is asked to defray the incidental
expenses, and every effort will be made
to get this work under way at once, as
the need is most pressing, and the city
is confronted with one of the most
critical conditions in the Pequannock
section since the watershed was first
developed.
The resolution adopted today was as
follows:
Resolution Was Adopted.
Whereas, the recent drought and
the depletion of the reservoirs in
the Pequannock watershed incident
thereto have again brought prominently
70 l1o of Of thic pnap6 Of Gtrnat
and Water Commissioners the neces-
sity of the city's procuring an ad
ditIonal water supply; and,
Whereas, under the existing cir
cumstances, it is, in the Judgment of
this board, necessary either that ad-
ditional reservoirs should be con-
structed in the Pequannock watershed
within the next two years or that adj
ditional water shall be procured in
some other manner within that time;
and,
whereas, chapter 303 of the State
Laws of 1910 provides method by
which any municipality or combination
of municipalities may arrange with the
State Water Supply Commission for
securing a supply of water for public
and private uses; and,
''Whereas, the cities of Paterson and
Passaic, the town of Montclair and
other municipalities have under con-
sideration the making of request to
the State Water Supply Commission for
the construction of the necessary reser-
voirs and works to supply themselves
and other municipalities with water;
and
Would Be Most Economical.
Whereas, in the judgment of this
board the immediate construction of
and works by the joint action
of the several municipalities in the Pas
sale Valley or adjacent therto, to de-
velop the Wanaque river would be the
most economical way for the city of
Newark to obtain an additional water
supply; and
Whereas, the State Water Supply
Commission has advised the other mu-
inequalities so far interested in this
question that the cost of the prelimi-
nary work contemplated under section
2 of chapter 1903 Of the laws of 1910
would not exceed $1,000 for any munich
pality desiring to enter into such prof.
ect on the basis of ten million gallons
per day therefore, be ii
RESOLVED, That the Common Coun-
Gil of the city of Newark be and it is
hereby requested, by resolution, to re-
quest the State Water Supply Com
in conformity with section Q
of chapter 1903 of the laws of 1910, 10
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