Palisadian., 1923-05-18
WESTWOOD SEWER
PROJECT EXPLAINED
Attorney AgneW's Report to Cliff
side Park Mayor and
Council.
Anril 26 1929

April 20, 1875.
To the Mayor and Council of
the Borough of Cliffside Park:
Gentlemen-A meeting of the rep
resentatives of the various towns
served by the Hackensack Water Com
pany was held at the Court House,
Hackensack, on Tuesday evening
April "a.
report was read from a comm .ttee
Of hve to prepare plan of action
against granting a permit by the State
Board of Health allowing the Borough
of Westwood to dump it's effiuent into
the water shed of the Hackensack
Water Company above the dam at
Oradell.
In order to avoid any antagonistic
feeling in the matter Westwood offers
to give about $4,000, which it would
save if not compelled to build dis
posal plant, toward the installation of
a pipe line which would carry the dis
charge into tidewater below the in
take, the balance of cost to be made
up by an increase in the water rate
to the forty-nine municipalities.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted opposing the application of
Westwood for permission to discharge
the eff1uent into the Hackensack
water she'd first as detrimental to
the public health, and secondly that
such discharge of sewerage into our
water shed would have a damaging
effect upon property values in the sew
eral towns served by the Hackensack
Water Company; and that an intercept
ing sewer be constructed from West
wood to a point in the Hackensack
River of a sufficient capacity to serve
all the territory along the valley of
the PaScack Brook as and when ex-
tensions thereof are required for
period of forty years Such work to
be done upon the agreement that
Westwood would pay the sum equal
to its saving by reason of it not being
required to construct and maintain a
disposal plant and also that any other
municipality shall also be required to
pay a sum equal to its saving. Also
the construction of an intercepting
sewer from Tenafiy west through Ber-
genfields or Dumont and New Milford,
to the Hackensack River, sufficient to
serve Tenafiy for a period of twenty
years upon Tenafiy agreeing to pay
a sum equal to what they save on the
disposal plant, Also construction of
an intercepting sewer from Tenafly
north, west and south on the under
meets with said sewer be required to
pay sum equal to the saving to each
town by reason of the existence of
such intercepting sewers and the
rates of the consumers be reduced
proportionately. Also that application
be made to the Legislature to have a
law passed prohibiting the discharge
of any water company irrespective of
the chemical purity of such effluent.
The committee to represent the
various towns consists of:
William Stuhr, chairman, Wee
hawken; Wendell ]. Wright, Hacken-
sack; DR.. Albert H. Moore, Closter;
Mayor Sheafe, Rutherford, and Mayor
Kerr Englewood.
The probable cost of the trunk
sewer as proposed to Westwood,
would amount to approximately $780,
900, which would mean an increase of
not more tnan 10 cents a year in the
water rate of each consumer. The
State Board of Health will hold final
hearing in this matter, the probable
date for which has been fixed as Tues
day, May Is, at Trenton.
Respectfully submitted,
A. M. AGNEW.