Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-11-29
S100,000FT. LEE SEWER To BE BUILT
TO ENCLEWOOD TO STOP COSTS FOR
POLLUTION OF CRYSTAL ICE LAKE
Leona Heights Sewers Wrong Construction Cause of I'm
mense Expenditures by Borough-Besides, Big Mo-
ton Picture Plants, Fast Growing, Demand Increased
Sewer Facilities.
PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HAD

There has been an ordinance intro
duced in the Fort Lee Council looking
to the extension of the sewage system
In the northwest section of the Dor
Ough, reaching to the southern end of
Englewood. 1t is said that this large
outlay is necessitated by the pollution
of Crystal Lake. for which the borough
mas already suffered one heavy bill for
damages, and because more are feared
The cost of the new sewage system
is yariously estimated, though actual
facts i'll the case are difficult to get.
one estimate places the cost as high
as 100000, another at $25O,OOO. and
one at less than 100000. The actual
cost may never be known till the job
is finished, as in the case of the
Leonia Heights sewer.
Crystal Lake is said to have been
recently purchased by Engineer
Stephen McClave and Councilman
Hirleman. RumOr has it that if the
new system is built this lake will be
utilized for a plant where sewage can
be deodorized, or purified, before it
is allowed to empty into Overpeck
Creek, a quarter of a mile or more
away Whether the present owners
will sell the lake to the borough or
not is not stated. This is probably
the last of the big enterprises of the
present White administration which
has been a snender from. AWAY back.
1t is said that Messrs. McClave and
Hirleman bought the lake for the pur-
pose of silver mining, the idea being
That there must be great deal of
silver from the moving picture deyel-
oping processes that went down the
sewer Whether this was profitable
or not is not known.
Mayor-elect George Hill who voted
for the new ordinance at the first read.
ing last Wednesday night at a special
meeting of the council, was asked
about the new sewer enterprise
why is it necessary to make a large
outlay at this time for new sewer
in that section that is not built up?"
Because of the Crystal Lake costs.
We are averaging about $1,000 a year
costs now for pollution through the
wrong construction of the Leonia
Heights sewer. The storm sewer is
underneath when it should be on top.
and it cannot be made over. 1t NAV
not be necessary to do anything for
some time, however, but we have to
get ready he replied.
why is this?"
Because the two large moving pic
ture plants, the Universal and Par
agon, are rapidly enlarging. and need
more sewage facilities all the time"
Are the sewers being proposed for
them?"
You see we have just got to do
something sometime. The right of
way must be bought, ten feet wide all
the way to Englewood."
What will the right of way cost?"
Lets see, here are the figures we
nave estimated on. Two acres in
Englewood, at $1,000 each, $4,000;
IL II acres at $1,000 each, $27. 600 one
acre at $1,000 l-3 of an acre at 5000.
$666.66, total for land of So,
How much is the sewer to cost?"
ESTIMATED at $46,2S2."
rs that the total estimator"
well, l believe they make the total
$3.50
"Will you have to buy the lake that
the borough polluted?"
eyes, l think So"
How much is that worth?"
Il don't really know
rs it worth $25,0OO?"
"Oh yes, | should think So"
Messrs. Schall, Hill and Kerwein
voted for the ordinance on first read
ing, and the impression prevails that
while there is to be a meeting for
public discussion, called hearing, it
will not be stopped.
But there is way to stop it.