Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-21

munities with a report on the de-
velopment of a water supply from the
! Wanaque river. We would respect
! fully call your attention that these
/ matters have now been sufficiently
| investigated to warrant an early con-
clusion by your commission, in order
| that the communities in need of water
! may be relieved of anxiety, and in
many cases of a needless expenditure
OF money. Newark particularly finds
| itself in a position where, beng I'M
able to get definite conclusions by the
State Water Supply Commission or
assurances that it will be enabled to
get additional water from State
| sources, 1t is now expanding a large
sum of money preparatory to increas-
| ing its storage capacity in the
| Pequannock watershed, that work
| present available by which it can pro-
| tect it's citizens from a possible water
| famine and provide for its rapidly
increasing population. 1t was neces-
sary, in order to prevent the waste
| of water held in storage in the
| Pequannock watershed that work
upon the lower portion of any dam
which it was proposed to increase in
height should be done when the reser-
voirs were drawn down by the draft
necessary to supply the city. We are
| hiASAAhCu Ihab ILLS WOAn was bCE uU
about six weeks ago, to take adj
vantage of the then low state of the
reservoirs. We are also informed
that If definite conclusion had been
reached by the State Water Supply
| Commission by which the city would
| have been assured of an additional
source Of water supply under State
supervision, the expenditures now
being made by the city of Newark to
| increase it's storage in the Pequan-
mock watershed might have been in
definitely postponed.
Duty of City Offcers.
1.-THE conference in requesting its
| officers to bring the matter to the at
! tenton of the State Water Supply
| Commission was mindful of the duty
| incumbent upon the municipal officers
! to provide for the future needs of its
inhabitants. 1t realized that at least
several of the communities embrace
| ing the conference had, upon numer-
| Gus occasions and for several years
| endeavored to provide additional
water supplies for its inhabitants;
that the State laws were such as to
prevent the carrying out of adequate
measures for the relief of the several
municipalities in this respect with.
| out the approval of the State Water
| lay on the part of the State Water
Supply Commission to come to the
front with provision under State SUI
pervision to grant the necessary adj
ditional water supplies leads the con-
ference to believe that the State COM
mission has not fully appreciated it's
responsibilities in this connection,
having for four years refused, on one
ground or another to allow the city
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opment to enable it to increase it's
water supply, and having promised
throughout all of that time that the
State would undertake the fur
riishing of this supply it (the
commission) has not so far, to the
knowledge of this conference, done |
more than discuss the preliminaries |
leading up to the acquisition of a sup
ply under the supervision of said |
commission.
'eThe conference was informed that |
at the next meeting of the State |
Water Supply Commission on Tues
day the goth inst, the commission |
would discuss the important matters |
which are made the subject of this |
communication. We would, there |
fore, urge upon the State Water Sup |
ply Commission the necessity of |
very early settlement of this impor-
tant question:, III oruer THAI The Hiu-
inequalities may know where they !
stand in the matter. and also that un- |
necessary expenditures on the part |
of the several municipalities to guar
antee the integrity of their water sup !
plies may be avoided. Respectfully |
submitted, C. f. KRAEMER,
"Chairman Conference on Interurban |
improvements of Newark and |
Adjacent Municipalities.
III. Bartholomew, Secretary"