Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-19
BOARD ADOPTS
SHERRERD'S PLAN.
Accepts Engineers Report on
Meadow Reclamation and
Bay Front Changes.
sGILLEN ALONE ENTERS
DISSENTING VOTE
He Favors Several Cross Streets
Instead of a Diagonal
One.

report on the boards plan of meadow
reclamation and bay front develop
ment at the meeting of the board
Yesterday which was adopted. 1t is
2 an analytical report of the plan ad-
yanced by Commissioner Charles f
Kraemer sometime ago with regard
to the boards method of procedure
on this proposition
Following the reading of the report
BY the chief engineer DR.. KraemeI
moved that it be placed on file as
EXPRESSING the boards attitude or
meadow reclamation and bay front
development All the commissioners
assented with the exception of Com
missioner Charles p. Gillen. who said
that while he agreed with the engl-
neer's report for the most part, there
were some small details with which
he did not agree.
To start work First of Year.
The board also passed a resolution
authorizing City Counsel James r.
Nugent and Chief Engineer Sherrerd
to make arrangements with the RI
parian commissioners for the pur-
chase of the riparian rights at the
price quoted by that body, with the
view in mind of starting active work
at the beginning of the year. One OF
tine engineers VIII nc llGJdlitu SACAd-
sively to the work in this territory
Mr.. Sherrerd's report was as fol-
4 lows:
Supplementing the conference of the
commissioners on meadow reclamation
and dock project held last Tuesday. and
lin accordance with your directions, l
would outline in brief manner my sug-
gestions as to the method OF procedure
to bring about an early utilization OF
portion of the meadow land which mas
~ l,f.a, oIs al mt Arolu aap
the city, and the balance Of the bay
z frontage, the purchase of which the city
now has under contract.
First,,I would recommend that all MI.
ing under water be kept at distance or
100 feet from the pierhead line. al
though the harbor line grant allows
solid fill to be carried out to within
600 feet of the pierhead line. (Of course,
when piers are constructed, one-half of
these piers extending from the I'LL now
{, proposed to be made can be filed in
and only the outer half made of open
pile work.
Recommends 200 Foot Channel.
would recommend that a channel 200
feet wide and eighteen feet at low water
be immediately dredged from the ship
channel in Newark Bay, to be approx
mately on the angle as shown on maps
submitted to the conference, and that this
channel be extended inshore parallel to
approximately $500 feet from the bay
shore.
That a timber crib, or a pile jetty,
with earth filling behind II, be construct
ed on the north of the channel to be
excayated from the ship channel to the
upland, to prevent the tides washing the
soft material from the bottom OF the
bay into this channel, and also to be
the nucleus OF a pier to be constructed
along the north side of this channel, and
to further act as the crib for one side
of the portion of the land under water
TO be filed In the immediate future.
That q crib or heavy fill be made par
allel With the pierhead line at distance
of 1000 feet back of the same from this
channel to the northern boundary Of the
+ shorewards along this northern boundary,
lrto provide retainer for the filiing to be
placed under water in this portion Of
the Development.
IS. Viaduct Over Railroad.
Ne That Buy avenue he continued. and
that viaduct be Immediately construct
ed over the Central Railroad to bring
material from the city for filling on the
meadows, and also to furnish trolley
connections and access by teams from the
city to the new development
That a sod dyke be constructed on the
section of the upland lying north of
Peddie Ditch and Immediately adjoining
the bay. incloslng an area of approx
mately 1900 feet by LOO, which would
comprise about 100 acres. TO I'll this
acreage to height of about six feet
above high water will require In the
neighborhood of 100000 cubic yards of
I'LL.
the ship channel into this distance of
E $500 feet from the shore would give ma
\ terial equalling about 1,250,0O0 cubic
4 yards. Additional material to complete
f this fill would come in either from the
shore, or additional material can prob
ably be obtained from the government
dredging In the ship channel, and this
can no doubt be accomplished in the fol-
lowing manner: The excavations being
made In the ship channel in the bay are
at distance of approximately 5000 feet
from the shore on Newark Bay, meas
ured along a prolongation OF the chan
mel to be constructed by the city, and
much of the material will be excavated
from this point southwards through the
bay. This distance would be too far to
utilize any excavation directly from q
suction dredge, as the limit of economical
delivery, without relay pumping, is con
ceded to be about 1900 feet. But the
material excayated In the ship channel
will no doubt be deposited in seows
which will need to have as short haul
as possible, and could discharge their
material In front of the dredge working
In the city's channel, and this material
could then be picked up by this suction
dredge and delivered either on the up.
land or in the portion of the citys hold
.ings under water.
The reason the suggestion is made that
lHc UDldnu DOrlloH NC Dlleu Ut OHcc
rather than the portion under water, is
that, in the Judgment of your engineer
by the expenditure of the same amount
of money, three times the acreage of filled
land could be developed for immedia Il
use, and this filled land would immedl-
ately have the benefit of deep water In
front of 1t.
The time has been too short to gel
more than an approximate idea OF the
RELATIVE cost of filling on the upland an6
filling the portion under water, but Il
Will he an easy matter to draw com
parison between the cost of filling ant
making available 100 acres on the upland
with bulkhead of dock facilities say
1000 feet long. as against the immediat,
filling of a pier extending from the up
land out to the pierhead line, which .piel
would be in the nelghborhood of 300i
feet long, and II made 100 feet wild,
would give an area of approximately ter
acres. An approximate comparison OF
the cost would be as follows;
Comparison OF Cost.
III Dredging necessary to make chan
mel and to deepen Peddie Street. pitcf
TO and along the 100 acres, and TO built
a permanent dock In front of this re
claimed land for 1000 feet: 1,250,00,
cubic yards of excavation, at 121a cents
per cubic yard, S156,250; 250000 cubic
yards Of fill brought down from the up.
land, at so cents per cubic yard, $4,000
preliminary work of building sod leyees
to hold fill, 5000; crib or breakwatei
along north side of channel, 5000 feet
100000; permanent bulkhead for 1000
feet, at $05 per lineal foot, 100000
Total, $441,250. Other items of cost, sucf
as grading Bay avenue and making ave
nues to reach this section of the meadows
would be less than to reach the pier con
structed in the bay, so may be omitted
from this comparison.
Approximate cost of building pier 3,00t
feet from the upland TO the pierhead line
4 A350 feet of permanent dock, at S65 pei
I foot, $3.50, $50: cost of excavation of chan
+ mel TO give deep water alongside OF pier
I Approximately half of the cost estimated
i above for dredging, namely, SIS, 1925; pro
viding additional cribwork to take car,
of this excavation which would be de
{ posted in the portion of the city's owner
< ship under water, 5000 feet, at $50
+. 100000. Total, $420725.