New Jersey Water News.

New Jersey Water News.

The New York Tribune, adverting editorially to the recent decision in the case of The City of Paterson vs. The East Jersey Water company, remarks that it “strongly commends itself to common sense. In brief, it is to the effect that no corporation can monopolise and divert the waters of a stream for gain to the deprivation of other riparian owners, and, also, that no municipality can monopolise the waters of a stream for the dilution of its sewage. The decision is expected materially to affect the business of the water company against which the suit was brought. It certainly ought to have no less effect upon the sewage disposal methods of the municipality which brought the suit.” -The State water supply commission has adopted a form of agreement under which the Buckhorn Springs Water company will be

permitted to furnish water for the town of Belvidere, for thirty years, with a right to an additional renewal for twenty years, at the end of which time the municipality may purchase the system within the first thirty years of the grant, then it is specified that “the diversion rights hereby allowed to the company as against the State shall he limited to thirtyyears from the date of this grant.”' In case a price cannot be agreed upon, it shall be fixed by arbitrators (the grant adds), one to be chosen by the company, one by the municipality, the other by the two thus chosen, or by a justice of the Supreme court of the State upon application by either party. The grant specifies that the said company shall complete the works mentioned in its application within two years.—The Kingsland-Lyndhurst township will begin work at once on the 2,000-ft. extension of the new waterworks system.—By granting a rule to show cause why an injunction shall not issue restraining the Toms River Water company from cutting water off at the fire hydrants of Toms River the court has practically thrown the question of how much shall be paid by the township and accepted by the water company into the court of Chancery. The township offers $15 per hydrant, and the company demands $25. The water was to have been shut off at once from the hydrants; but the rule granted acts as a temporary restraint.—The rag mill at Dover has ceased to be a source of pollution of the water supplied by the East Jersey Water company to Jersey City, the evil having been corrected, or, if it is a menace, it is no worse than other factories now locating along the stream. The court advises Jersey City to buy up the land along the banks to whatever extent is necessary, to stop incidental pollution. By the recent decision both parties have gained.