Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-17
ORANGE DECLARES
ITSELF AGAINST
SEWER PROJECT
Favors Sending Expert Abroad
to Study Imhoff Disposal
Plant System.

The Orange Common Council en-
gagged In some preliminary maneuvers
last night in the fight that Montclair
over the Imhoff sewage disposal plan.
and identified itself positively with the
side lead by Mayor Ernest C. Hinck.
of Montclair. That the council will
not &c into camp with the enemy
meaning the Passaic Valley Sewerage
Commission, until the last resource has
been exhausted, was the informal de-
cfsion of the city fathers. 1t was de-
cided to empower the sewer committee
to confer with Montclair, East Orange,
Glen Ridge and Bloomfield on the ques-
ton of sending az expert abroad to
I'm out the merits or dement's of the
Imhoff plan.
Frederick w. Kelsey, a layman mem
Der of the special committee, suggested
hat a competent engineer of national
repute be secured by the council and
sent abroad to investigate the Imhoff
system, as we'll as the workings of the
several experimental plants in this
country, and on his return report as to
the advisability of entering into this
scheme.
The members of the council present
were, however, reluctant to pledge
themselves to vote any large appro'
priation of money, especially as the
other municipalities might not agree
to the plan. 1t was finally decided to
empower the sewer committee to con-
fer with the towns named and con-
slider the matter.
City Engineers Report.
City Engineer Fred T. Crane, who
was ordered to make a report on the
Imhoff system as compared with the
Passaic Valley sewer, made a COM
piete report, together with a compre-
hensive statement on the workings OF
the Imhoff plan.
As to the cost of construction Of an
1mhoff sewerage liant by the five mu-
inequalities Interested Mr.. Cranes fig
ure is 81, 900, 900, as against 1924, $50 for
the Passaic trunk sewer.
The cost of the various cities under
the Imhoff plan he computed as fol-
lows: Montclair. 1924, 900; East Or
ange. $241, 200; Bloomfield, 1929, 800;
Glen Ridge, $4,000, and Orange, $751;
900. Engineer Crane also Appropriated
tho annual cost OF maintenance under
the Imhoff scheme as s65, 900, as against
$149, IA, the probable maintenance cost
of the trunk sewer.
The meeting of the special sewer COM
mittee was the first of the gatherings
OF the body in the open. The gather
fngs have been in secret, but the pub
licity given the plans of the Montclair
officials has ended the need for secrecy.
Some lively passages of words were fea-
lures of the gathering. Frederick w
Kelsey, who offered the motion that
Orange send an engineer abroad to
study sewage plans, was opposed in his
desire to have Engineer c. c. Vermeule
engaged for the trip.
Former Councilman John L. Davis
suggested that the expensive trii
should be financed by all ~thetmunicipal-
tiles, and. Mr.. Kelsey remarked that
Montclair In property purchases and
East Orange in other ways had gone
to expense thus far, while Orange had
spent practically nothing. Engineer
Vermeule was opposed by Councilman
Edward Cheetham, who claimed he had
gone to unusual. straits to oppos Or
ange'sl municipal light plant, and he
said he would not vote for the eng.-
neer. Tho matter vas settled by re-
ferring 1t to the subcommittee.