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The New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company was a water treatment and pumping plant located on Van Buskirk Island, an artificially created island in the Hackensack River, in Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. [3] The site was purchased in 1881 by the Hackensack Water Company, which developed it for water supply use.
Water chlorination as a means of treatment began to be used in the late 19th century. Bleaching powder was the first material used for chlorination. Middelkerke, Belgium, would become the first city to chlorinate its water, in 1902, and Jersey City, New Jersey, became the first in city in
The largest cities are Newark, Jersey City, Bayonne, Union City, East Orange, Passaic, Paterson, Clifton, and the Township of North Bergen. [2] The utility's treatment plant uses activated sludge secondary treatment technology, has a design capacity of 330 million gallons per day (MGD) [3] and discharges to Newark Bay. [4]
The Hackensack Water Company Complex is a set of historic buildings in Weehawken, New Jersey, registered in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.The Hackensack Water Company, a predecessor of Suez North America, developed water supply and storage in northeastern New Jersey from the 1870s to the 1970s, initially to provide service to the city of Hackensack and the towns of North Hudson ...
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Toasts New Water Treatment Plant in Millburn Lt. Gov. Guadagno drinks first glass of water from New Jersey American Water's Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant VOORHEES, N.J ...
One immediate catalyst for the passage of the Water Pollution Control Act in New Jersey was a large fish-kill incident caused by the discharge of heated water by the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, New Jersey. [12] The subsequent New Jersey Supreme Court decision, State v.
New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day. Each one of those gallons weighs around 8 pounds , so it's quickly apparent that a large amount ...
The most powerful quake ever to hit New Jersey is thought to be a 5.3 quake centered on what is now Rockaway Township in 1783. An estimated 5.0 magnitude quake hit the state in 1884. The April 5 ...