New Jersey Water News
及时采用米,泽西城avoided the necessity for spending millions on a new source of water supply, and by establishing a modern meter-testing laboratory and inspection of meters it has added to that system of safeguarding. There has been an increase in revenues from the sale of water, while the consumption of water was less in 1908 than it was in 1907. Also, this meter inspection has resulted in a reduction of $192.50 per day in payment by the city for water to the Jersey City Water Supply company, which still controls the municipal plant. W hile the meter inspection and the testing laboratory have proved expensive, it is, nevertheless. true that the deficit of 1906-1907 has been converted into a handsome net revenue for 190809, and the total expenses of the department have been reduced by 5.4 per cent.—Jersey City has won a victory over the Lackawanna railway, which had sought to enjoin the city from interfering with the laying and operation of a water pipe along its right of way. The city refused to give the railway the right to cross Westside avenue with a pipe by which the Hudson County Water company proposed to furnish the terminal of the railroad with water. The court refused to grant an injunction, on the ground that the water company was not made a party to the proceedings. If the water company should be made a party in any subsequent suit, the court holds that the Federal courts would be without jurisdiction, and, therefore, any subsequent redress which may be sought by the railway must be bv recourse to the State courts.—Jersey City has ordered the Jersey City Water Supply company to stop the chemical treatment of the water that is supplied to Jersey City from Boonton for drinking purposes. Jersey City has objected legally to this chemical treatment of the water that is claimed by the water company to be an efficacious and cheap way of purifying the sevvaee that is emptied intothe Rockaway river from Dover, Boonton and other towns along the river. The Jersey City Water Supply company is trying to evade the cost of constructing intercepting sewers and a sewage-disposal plant for these Rockaway river towns and is setting up that 8 lb. of chloride of calcium will purify 1,000,000 gal. of water. It has established a sterilisation plant at Boonton and is daily treating the water.
Branchville will install a $20,000 gravity waterworks system.
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