Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-21
KRAEMER URGES
ACTION ON CITY
q.
WATER SUPPLY
Local Official Writes to State
Commission for Decision on
Wanaque Matter.

In an attempt to hasten the State
Water Supply Commission in making
It's report on the application of the
city of Newark to develop the Wanna
que watershed water possibilities,
Charles r. Kraemer, president of the
Board of Works, has sent a letter to
the commission explaining the feel
ing of the conference on interurban
improvements of Newark and ada
cent municipalities. DIR. Kraemer is
chairman of the conference. 1t was
recently formed to jointly promote
the welfare of Newark and its near
by municipalities.
In the letter which was read at the
Water Supply Commission meeting
yesterday at Trenton DIR. kraerner
calls the commissions attention to
the fact that Newark is now spend
ing large sums of money to heighten
the Pequannock reservoir walls and
increase its poundage. He says this
action was made necessary by the
failure of the commission to report
on the city's application to develop
the Wanaque watershed as an emer-
gency supply.
Maximum Reached.
The letter points out that the maxi
mum daily supply is now being prac-
tically consumed every day. and that
within two years Newark will have
to have an additional supply of
water. He emphasizes the fact that
two years is but a short time in which
to develop and promote a water sup
ply to the extent that the Wanaque
must be worked before it can be made
available
The letter was sent by DR. Kraemer
by instruction of the conference. East
Orange, Nutley and Glen Ridge are
also vitality interested in the devel-
opment of the Wanaque and urging
immediate action by the commission.
The letter was as follows:
Newark, N. j., Oct. 16, 1914.
Estate Water Supply Commission,
Trenton, N. j.
-" Gentlemen: The municipalities adj
jacent to Newark, together with off,
Gals of that city, have created an
organization which is known as the
Conference on 1nterurban Improve
ments of Newark and Adjacent Mu-
inequalities This conference has been
very active in matters relating to the
joint interests of the several munich
1alities in Essex and adjoining coun-
ties, and at its meeting last Wednes-
day, the 14th inst, the officers of the
organization were directed to lay be-
Lore lll0 STATE water Supply 1Otll-
mission the necessity for immediate
action on the part of said commits
sion to inaugurate a State policy Of
conservation of the water supplies in
the Passaic Valley. We were directed
to remind you of the fact that several
communities, including the city of
Newark, have been endeavoring for
at least five years to provide them
selves with additional water sup
plies; that the moves inaugurated by
these communities looking towards
the acquisition of additional water,
which is now urgently needed, have
invariably been halted by the State
Water Supply Commission on one
pretext or another, particularly as
relates to the municipalities in the
lower portion of the Passaic valley.
(Some of the smaller communities in
the upper portion of the valley have
been given permission to proceed
with their own water developments).
Has Had Enough Time.
ut seemed to be the opinion of the
conference that the time given to the
public consideration of this question
had now been sufficiently long TO en-
able any interested municipality to
present its views, and that, there
fore, action ON the part of the
said commission proposes to act at
all, should be prompt and definite.
The recent exceptionally protracted
dry period has accumulated the neces-
sity for many of the communities in
THIS vicinity to procure additions to
their water supplies. Newark must
have additional water in the merit two
years, which is none too long a Pc
Rod for the development of an adj
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are to be constructed. That city has
waited patiently for the State Water
Supply Commission to move in some
way to furnish it with additional
water. More than two years ago it
pledged itself as ready to enter into
contract, in accordance with the re-
port of sai1 commission, and resolu-
lions were adopted by the Common
Council and the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners of Newark di-
recting the negotiating of a contract
with the State Water Supply Com
mission. East Orange has signified
its desires to enter into q contract
for an additional water supply to en-
sure itself against a deficiency in it's
own supply from driven. wells; Or
ange is dependent upon a very linn
tied amount of storage and will be
In need of additional water in the
near future; Glen Ridge and Nutley
have both expressed themselves as
being DESTROYS of purchasing water
from the State.
1.-Two years have been devoted by
the commission in carrying out the
suggestion of Paterson that the prop
critics Of the water companies supply
ing large portion of the territory of
the Passaic valley should be APP
praised. These appraisals have been
available for several communities for
more than a year. Prior to this ap-
praisal the State Water Supply Com
mission furnished the several COM