Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-21
NEWARK WINS POINT
ON S6,OOO,OOO SEWER
Continued from First pase.)

there will be an absence of visible
suspended matter; deposits objection
able to the secretary of war; doors
due to putrefaction of organic mat
ter; grease OF color on surface water:
bodies having injurious effects upon
fish life; that there will be no in
furious effect on property of the
United States in the water of the
bay, or no injury to public health or
no public or private nuisance.
How II VIII BE Purified.
This state of publication was to be
reached, Attorney Riker explained, by
means Of screening and sedimentation
formulate which had been approved by
the United States government. He
also maintained that the installation
of the Imhoff tanks would in all
probability create malodorous nuis-
ance.
1t was represented to the vice.
chancellor that the commission al
ready has expended 100000 and
bound itself by contract to extend
sS,000.000 additional
In giving his decision, Vice-Chan-
cellor Backes declared that the opin-
ions Of the four engineers who have
commission since it's organizati ton
and were regarded as experts in
their line at the time of the suit
against the commission by the State
of New York carried greater weight
with him that testimony offered by
engineers employed by the Paterson
interests.
He also points out the fact that the
government engineers have approved
the plans which the commissioners
intend to follow and consider them
the methods to be employed as ade-
quate.
Taking all these things into con-
sideration, the vice-chancellor says
there is but one course open.
THE Injunction will be denied ans
the order to show cause dismissed"
The charter under which the Pas
sale Valley Sewerage Commission ex-
poets to complete the big trunk sewer
was amended on April IA, 1910, fol-
lowing a suit brought by the State
of New York against the commission,
in which the United States inter-
vened to protect its water interests
In New York.
Before then It was the intention of
the commission to empty the sewage
into the bay in its natural state.
This brought storm of objections
from the Empire State and the
against the commission.
New York's Action stin Pending.
Later the commission came to a
compromise with the Federal gov
eminent by agreeing to purify the
effluent according to the foregoing
conditions and the government then
withdrew from the suit. The action
brought by the State of New York,
however. Is still pending.
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Com
mission was formed on requisition of
the municipalities of Newark and
Believille, for a trunk sewer to carry
off the waste from the cities Plans
and specifications were then drafted
and the Passaic Valley Sewerage
Commission was formed to carry out
the plans.
The charter obtained by the new
commission gave 1t permission to
construct q trunk sewer along the
bed of the Passaic river from Pater
son to the Newark meadows, with a
pressure tunnel across Newark bay
to Robbins Reef. where an outfail
forty feet below mean low water was
to be constructed. A pumping sta
ton on the Newark meadows was
also provided for.
Following the amending of the char
ter and the compromise with the Fed
eral government, a provision was
made for a publication plant, SCREEN
Ing works. and sedimentation on the
Newark meadows, and the construc-
ton of a $6,000,000 tunnel under New
ark bay.
Warren Dixon. who represented the
Paterson interests In the matter, is
in New York State today and could
not be reached. 1t is understood.
however. that an appeal will be
taken.