Jersey City Objects to Water Going Out of the State.

Jersey City Objects to Water Going Out of the State.

It now appears likely that action will soon be brought by Jersey City through Corporation Counsel Dixon to restrain the Hudson County Water Company from conveying water to Jersey City via a pipe line through Jersey City from well near Belleville and under the water of Kill von Kull to the island.

Commissioner Brackner, of the Jersey City water board, recently introduced the following resolution by way of getting action in the matter. The preambles to the Brackner resolution set forth that the Hudson County Water Company is now erecting a pumping station and driving wells on the west side of the Passaic river, near Belleville, in Essex County, for the purpose of developing a source of water supply, and is at present engaged in the work preliminary to laying two 30-inch mains under the Kill von Kull from Bergen Point. Bayonne, to West New Brighton and Port Richmond, City of New York, in accordance with terms of a contract entered into between the company and the City of New York, under the terms of which the water company has agreed to sup ply water to the borough of Richmond from sources located in New Jersey; that the company already has pipelines in Bayonne, to which the above-mentioned 30-inch mains may be connected, and is now supplying Bayonne. It is looked upon as the evident intention of the water company to use its present 30-inch pipe line, running across the Hackensack meadows through Kearny and Jersey City, designed to convey water to Bayonne for the purpose of supplying Port Richmond, or else lay new and additional mains across the meadows. It is further set forth that the legislature of this state has passed an act making the transposition of water from streams and surface sources in New Jersey to points outside of the state unlawful, and that the act has been declared constitutional by the courts of New Jersey: that the development of the present underground source of supply (driven wells) is merely a technical evasion of the law. and the carring out of the plan by which the waters of the Passaic Valley will be transported out of the state directly affects sources of water supply now owned and controlled by the municipality of Jersey City, since abandoned (Belleville water w-orks), but which may easily, in the light of modern developments in the arts of sewage disposal and water filtration, again become available and valuable.