Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-12
HOW BLOOMFIELD
STANDS IN SEWER
SITUATION TOLD
Board of Trade Gets Lengthy
Report, Without RecOmmen.
datiOn, From Committee.

"ililOQb IdSOlIllACllQlIlS the EQODtlOn
of any particular plan, claiming that
the matter should receive the prompt
and careful attention of the Town
Council, 9 committee on sewerage
and drainage of the Bloomfield Board
of Trade presented a lengthy report
at meeting last night in which was
explained he position of the town as
regards the recently adopted law which
will require that pollution Of the Pas
sale River cease after December 81.
1914. J
The was read by former
Mayor William Potter Sutphen, chair
man of the committee. He claims, in
.asmuch as Bloomfield with several
other towns is disposing of It's sewage
matter by an outlet to the river in
this city. 1t was compulsory that other
means be taken.
Two ways are OPEN" he said, o N
is by means of a sewage p~urifcation
plant to be operated alone, or with
aneighboring municipalities; the other
by joining in the plan of the Passaic
Valley. Sewerage Commission for a
trunk sewer extending from Paterson
to New York Bay. The plan of puri-
~fication by a disposal plant operated
by this own alone Is not to be con-
sidered on account of the great ex-
pencl of such an undertaking, as the
plant would permit the disI osal works
to be pla, d in Its vincinity. Even If
a local plant were permitted the cost
of pumping sewage from the lower
sections of the town would be very
heavy. The only feasible method of
building n operating q publication
plant is through the cooperation of
n~eighboring communities.
THE city of East Orange" the re-
port continues, secured a report by
Harrison p. Eddy. consulting engineer
of Boston, o N the subject of a purif-
cation plant for that place alone, for
East Orange and Montclair Jointly and
for East Orange, Orange, Montclair,
Glen Ridge n Bloomfield Jointly. The
plan proposes to convey the sewage of
the municipalities mentioned to the
meadows near the Passaic or Hacken-
sack rivers. where 1t would be pur1-
fed"
Disposal Method Feasible.
THE treatment proposed is similar
to that advocated by Allen Hazen in
his plan for a publication plant for the
city of Paterson. This method" the
report said, "is In operation In several
cities In this country, and we believe
Is entirely feasible, so far as the prac-
teal working of this system is con-
cerned. The cost of such a system for
the v municipalities Is estimated by
Mr.. Eddy to be 81, $780, 900, exclusive of
rights-of-way and real estate.
"As nearly as we can learn, the cost
of operating the disposal plant would
be slightly less han the share of the
i've municipalities in the cost of
operating the trunk sewer. The five
municipalities which have not signi-
fled their willingness to adopt the Pas
sale sewer plan are East Orange, Or
ange, Montclair, Glen Ridge and
Bloomfield. These municipalities,
under the leadership of East Orange,
have been considering the plan of dis
posaI works as outlined in Mr.. Eddy's
report.
'The great disadvantage of the
trunk sewer is that 1t requires heavy
initial OUTLAWS to provide capacity for
the future for communities which are
as yet but little developed. The com
mission has planned to allot sufficient
capacity to take care of the sewage OF
the municipalities affected up to the
year 1910.
1.-THE cost to the town of Bloomfield
under n present law Is In PEI NOh''
of the total cost, that is $176,606.5l The
space allotted to our town in the sewer
is 1926 per cent. of It's working capacity.
If we should be assessed according TO
capacity the cost to this town would be
1877, 947.7 II. 1t is, therefore, in the inter-
est of Bloomfield that the present plan
of assessment should be followed.
IF the Town Council should consider
q ,5,4aaIJ1 4a Y,~ifa with tho Trunk
sewer, their consent should be given
with the condition that the Passaic Val
Icy Commission and contracting NUM-
cipalities agree. to enlarge the union
outlet sewer to provide the necessary
capacity for the municipalities using 1t
up to the year 1910, as provided in the
Trunk line sewer"