# Map Too Large For Filming — New York v. New Jersey > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/brief%3Amicro_IA40386004_0506%3A03 ## Record - **Collection:** Supreme Court brief - **Document type:** Map Too Large For Filming - **Published:** January 1, 1921 - **Citation:** 256 U.S. 296 ## Text THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY ET AL. 4139 before discharge. Details of the aeration process will be given in a i rulbably not be necessary until the proposed drainage system has been developed to at least one-half of its ultimate capacity. After that time it will be neces- sary to employ the aeration proces= only during certain of the sum- mer months, and at ultimate development such employment will ably not exceed four months of the year. These facts have an important bearing on the consideration of the ultimate cost of treat- ment. 140 The discharge into Little Neck Bay is necessarily into shoal water near the head of a land-locked bay in which practically the only circulation is that due to tidal flow. It is therefore impos- sible to make any accurate calculations of the dilution factor, but purification will evidently be required. We recommend at the start effective fine screening, a short period of sedimentation, and forced veration, Our recommendation of the latter | a my is based upon experimental work which we have conducted during the summer at Brooklyn and at Boston. This work is not yet completed, but has gone far enough to enable us to =tate that in situations similar to the one under discussion an important reduction in the putresci- bility of the sewage can be obtained in this manner and at reason- able costs. The three outlets along the shore front of the Rockaway Section will each be carried about 1,000 feet off shore into water having a mean depth of 15 feet. Experience elsewhere, notably at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, has indicated that with suitable provision for the removal of the grosser suspended matter, such a method of disposal may be used without any resulting nuisance. We recom- mend dispoxal work at these points, consisting of screening and a short period of detention in hydrolytic tanks, so designed as to clarify the sewage and give a maximum of liquefying action with a mini- mum of anaerobic putrefaction. Very respectfully, W. M. BLACK. EARLE B. PHELPS. (Here follows map marked page 141, Complainants’ Exhibit No. 136.) 127— Ex. 136 4140 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Vs. 142 Special Report on the Richmond Drainage District. Submitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment Mareh 9, 1911. 143 Cuter Exoineer’s Orrice, Boarp or Estiwate axp APPORTION MENT, City or New York, March 4, 1911. Hon. William J. Gaynor, Mayor, Chairman of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Sin: Herewith is transmitted the report of Colonel William M. Black, U.S. A., and Professor Earle B. Phelps, bearing date of Feb- ruary 15, 1911. in the matter of the locations which might properly be selected for the discharge of sewage from the entire Borough of Richmond. This report ha= heen prepared pursuant to the instructions given by the Board in 1909, under which Colonel Black was requested to advixe concerning the method which, in his judgment, might prop erly be adopted in order to most advantageously use the harbor waters for the removal of sewage. and has been prepared along the same lines as were followed in investigating the Corona, Flushing, and Jamaica districts of the Borough of Queens, in each of which sections it was found neces-ary to outline a general plan for the drainage of the entire area affected in order to establish the practicability of using the points selected for outlet. The report now submitted completes the investigation in so far as it relates to the portions of the City for which no complete drainage plan has vet heen prepared. The investigation was also made to include a study of the circula- tion of fresh and polluted water in the harbor, with a view of deter- mining the amount of sewage which could properly be admitted in various sections. together with the results of experimental work con- cerning a new process of purification which it was believed might be employed with advantage. The results of the latter investigation are contained in another communication which will be made the subject of a -eparate report, this completing the entire work originally con- templated. ; In this report it is pointed out that about 63 per cent. of the entire area of the Borough of Richmond is located on the northwesterly side of the backbone of the island and drains naturally into the Arthur Kill and the Kill von Kull, and that of the 36 miles of cuast line about one-half borders upon the kills, neither of which can be con- sidered as available for the discharge of crude sewage. It is also pointed out that the five miles of coa-t line bordering the upper bay are similarly unavailable for such use owing to the pollution to which they are already subjected, and that of the remaining thirteen miles having frontage upon the lower bay a considerable portion is un- available for the discharge of sewage owing in part to the shallow 128—Ex. 136 THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY ET AL. 4141 depth, and in part to the tidal circulation which would result in the return of discharged sewage to the bathing beaches. These conditions leave only the upper ion of the lower bay in the vicinity of the Narrows and the -outherly portion of the island as the only sections along the coast line suited for the use under consideration unless purification is resorted to. The plan which has been outlined is in- tended to meet these conditions in so far as practicable and provides for the collection and discharge of sewage at -even vints. 144 Two of these points are located in the vicinity of Fort Wads- worth. here outletting inte the deep waters of the Narrows. At these two points there will be concentrated more than one-half of the total sanitary flow for the Borough, this being accomplished by bringing a portion of the sewage from the westerly water--hed southwardly through the gap at Richmond, thence returning along the easterly slope of the island. The five remaining points are located respectively at Great Kills, Seguine’s Point and Red Bank on the southerly side of the i-land, and at Lake's Island and Bloomfield on the Arthur Kill. At the last two mentioned point- purification by sedimentation and forced aera- tion will be required. It has been assumed that the i-land will have a pr ulation repre- senting a density of about 25 persons per acre an that the dry weather flow will he equivalent to a water consumption of 125 gallons per capita per day, of which one-half would be discharged into the sewers in eight hours. In determining the «ize of sewers for the sani- tary flow an allowance ha- been made for a seepage of ground water at a uniform rate of 0.003 cubic feet per second per acre. Tt has been assumed that the flow in the sewers will have a velocity of three feet second. and that a minimum of six feet of cover will be provided. In the studies no provision has been made for the removal of the orm flow, it being understood that this study was in no way con- nected with the investigation de-ired by the Board. Owing to the low elevation of many of the areas affected it has been deemed necessary to make provision for eleven pumping stations at which the sewage would be elevated through heights varving from 6 feet upwards to 42 feet, requiring an aggregate of 525 horse-power. Provision is also made for six force mains having an aggregate length of about 18,900 feet. The report includes table- giving the essential elements of the sv= tem as planned. which is also shown upon a general map which ac- companies the report. It is understood that owing in part to the absence of data on which a complete plan could be prepared, and in part to the fact that this investigation was intended to he limited simply to such work as was involved in establishing the practicability of carrying the drainage to the points selected for outlet that the plan is not offered as of other than of a suggestive character and that a more or less radical revision may be necessary in many particulars. 1 would recommend that a copy of this report and of the accom- panying map be transmitted to the President of the Borough of 1290—Ex. 136 — ope 4142 THE PROFLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK V5. Richmond with the suggestion that he be asked to give them careful consideration in the preparation of the drainage plans for this dis trict Re«pec.fully, NELSON P. LEWIS, Chief Engineer. 145 February 15, 1911. Mr. Nelson P. 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Regarding the «prinkling filters. there ix lew definite inf tion as te their inederousne than about the Imboff tanks. fortunately. all the large installation. of sprinkling filters have visited are receiving eptic or rotten sewage. and at these, theagh not all. there was more or lew odor detectible at ds tances of from 200 feet to one-half mile. or more. depending upen the humidity. temperature. direction of the wind, and rottenness the sewage. There are one or two plants in Easape of moderate size, which are handling fre-h ; é > > . | = Pe. ~. : a \ at wa fore” a yy gg Myr ih il ry PROPLE OF STATE OF NEW YORK VS. STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 1207 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COMPLAINANTS, STATE OF NEW JERSEY ET AL. COMPLAINANTS’ EXHIBIT No. 138. Showing Estimated Relative Pollution of Newark and Upper New York Bays Under Different Plans of Sewage Disposal. JAMES D. MAHER, Commissioner. (idl ovttiow fron Newark Gay ard Gpper New York Bay +n cubic feet per sec. per /000 persons. ONSMSLHAVSOSTHSIFRRESTLH ESTIMATED RELATIVE POLLUTION OF NEWARK AND DIFFERENT PLANS FOR DISPOSING OF THE SEWAGE OF THE PASSAIC VALLEY DISTRICT PPER NEW YORK BAYS UNDER New Jersey Sewage from territory trr- lary fo Newark yA" Vassaic Valley sew- _ascharged cre fo Nework Bay ' | x York Bay fassaic Valle S€ wage J/sC/a /ito Upper New w Sersty sewage Vhially puritied Qld ascharged Vlo Newark Bay a Neo tthelihood of 10/$aNCEe \907 1@S017, OCCOPAIIG a, Y 9. / Nuisance May oF may lo circumstances Nuisance sure --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/brief%3Amicro_IA40386004_0506%3A03. Public record. Not legal advice.