Berdan v. Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners

Backes, Y. C.

This bill is filed by eight taxpayers of the city of Paterson, and prays an injunction restraining the Passaic Yalley Sewerage Commissioners, a body corporate, from constructing, as a part of the Passaic trunk sewer system, a pressure tunnel eastward of Newark bay to Robbins reef, in New York bay, on the ground that the sewage effluent to be carried by it may be safely deposited in Newark bay, and this at a saving of $6,000,000, and hence, that the contemplated expenditure for the building of the tunnel is an abuse of discretion reposed in the sewerage commission by the…