New Jersey Water Works items.

New Jersey Water Works items.

t的大法官法庭调查条件he Jersey City water “drags its slow length along." Up to the present the jersey City Water Supply company is hardly getting the best of it, as to the method of purification it has adopted at Boonton by dumping chloride of lime into the reservoir, instead of installing an adequate intercepting sewer system. Prof. Winslow, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and an associate of Prof. Sedgwick, of the same institution, backed up the latter as to the state of the water and the imperfect disinfecting methods of the company. The chloride of lime, he said, as a rule, kills living organisms, but does not dispose of alt the bacteria, and causes an offensive smell by causing the decomposition of the matter. He added: “So much pollution gets into the Rockaway river from Rockaway, Boonton and Dover that it is impossible for the disinfecting plant to free the water from all this pollution.’’ He was asked about Engineer Hill’s proposed sewage disposal plant, which he favored, with some amendments, as, for instance, large contact beds. He said the pollution should be kept out as much as possible, and then the water ought to be filtered, m addition to keep out impurities that may get in the water—in spite of the ordinary precautions. There is now apparently no disguise as to the construction of a pipe-line from Belleville to a point in Kearny, and there to connect it with the river water mains running from Little Falls to Bayonne. Then the idea is to mix the well and river water, measure how much of the former is pumped at Belleville, and meter the water that is diverted at Bayonne to Staten Island. This is the scheme the State Commission is asked to indorse, and the commission has submitted the matter to the attorneygeneral for an opinion. There is no pretence that the well water is to be kept separate from the river water. The supply is to be a mixture, so far as both Bayonne and Staten Island are concerned. There is no assurance that, if there should he a break in the pumping machinery, the company would immediately cut off the supply for Staten Island. Even if such assurances could be given, that would not alter the fact that the sending out of the State of river water, even though mixed with well, would be in violation of the Bacheiler anti-diversion act. The Newark Evening News insists editorially that the "granting of the permission asked for would be a dangerous proceeding, even though the language of the statute could be twisted so as to make such permission lawful. This section of New Jersey reeds all of the water that it possesses for its own use, and the State water supply commission should see to it that the people’s interest in the supply is conserved.”

Branchville’s proposed source of supply for its new waterworks system is a brook, where a reservoir is to be built, whose flow will be 603,30 gal. per minute. If so, this is under all estimates.