Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-16
PEOPLE PEEVED
At WOODBRIDGE
Can Get No Satisfaction in
Township on Water Supply
HopeIaWn Residents Say

Declaring that the Woodbridge
Township Committee would give
them no satisfaction in their repeat
cd requests for some arrangement
whereby their section would be sur
piled with water. a delegation of six
men, representing the Hopelawn m
provement Association, appeared be-
fore the Perth Amboy Board of
Water Commissioners last night.
The spokesman of the delegation
said the Hopelawn residents were
disoleased because of the lack of in
terest in their affairs being shown
Ly the Woodbridge Township Com
mittee and they had decided to come
to Perth Amboy to see If something
could not be done to help them onI
of their present p~redicament.
The men were told by members or
the local board that If they arranged
in some way to lay their own pipes,
they could tap on h Perth Ampoy
water main which goes out florlud
Grove road. but the fact was empha-
sized that the city of Perth Amooy
liz not allowed by law to lay apy pipes
outside the city limits.
The Hopelawn section,
living in Woodbridge township. is
often considered a part of Perth
Amboy, as 1t borders on the west
side of Florida Grove road, the east
side of which is in Perth Amboy.
The residents of Hopelawn have
been endeavoring for a long time to
reach some agreement whereby
they could secure a water supply.
The Woodbridge township commit
tee took the matter up with the To-
cal water board and an estimate
was given them. According to the
INoNsA~ 1nS% night the
township committee has changed Its
ogers so often hat the residents do
not know which one to consider or
how to proceed. They declare h a
the prices quoted them by the
township committee are too high,
when compared with the charge for
water asked Of residents in Perth
Amboy.
The Hopelawn Improvement Asso-
citation had a communication before
the board, stating their position n
quoting prices offered them by n
Woodbridge Township Committee.
The charge for IT'S customers or
more supplied with sufficient water
to afford fire protection would be S3S
each annually, it was said. A six
inch service would supply this water.
superintendent Samuel j.. Mason
pointed out. however. that IL no fire
protection was wanted a two-lnch
pipe could be laid which would give
sufficient water for domestic use at
a cost only about one-third of h a
quoted.
The delegation declared that n
proposition had been made to them
by the township committee hat the
residents of Hopelawn pay 100000
and Perth Amboy would pay 100000.
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the cost of the water system was
boosted to $6S,500, the spokesman
said, and then dropped down to $780,
900. He said there were too many
propositions being made, and none
Of them put clearly enough for them
10 understand so that some action
hight be taken.
superintendent Mason said that a
fair charge for water in the Hope
lawn section would be an assessment
of $50 a lot and a water rental
charge of $40 a year. He was told
that the township committees fig
ures were $21 a lot assessment and
$14 a year rental. Petitions were
issued at one time, one of the dele
CATION said, stating that the assess
ment per lot would be 1920 or less"
At one time he said a promise had
been made of an assessment of $40
a lot. The local commissioners.
however, pointed u that such ar
assessment was too low as it would
not cover the cost of labor required
in laying a main into a house.
The delegation was advised to
again take up the matter with the
Woodbridge township committee, as
it is impossible for Perth Amboy to
go beyond the city limits to lay any
mains and thus help remedy con-
ditions. The delegation was in
formed that Perth Amboy would be
glad to furnish them with water if
the pipes are laid to the city main
in Florida Grove road.