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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
In 2010, Exelon announced that it would close the facility in 2019 as part of an agreement with the State of New Jersey under which the plant would be allowed to operate without cooling towers. [27] The plant, which had contributed a third of the township's budget through taxes, was closed in September 2018, after which a decommissioning ...
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 ...
The April 5 quake in New Jersey damaged equipment in the Sussex County town's treatment plant. Here's what needs to be repaired. North Jersey town OKs $600K to fix damage from April earthquake at ...
At that time, Atlantic County had more than 20 small, outdated sewage treatment plants, most of which discharged effluent into streams, tidal waters and other surface waters. Over the years, the situation resulted in the degradation of the county's fresh water resources, estuaries and marine environments. With the construction of the Coastal ...
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) is a regional wastewater public utility located in Newark, New Jersey.Established in 1902, PVSC provides sewage treatment services to 1.5 million people, consisting of 48 municipalities, in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Union and Passaic Counties.
The 1977 passage of the New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act coincided with the passage of additional amendments to the Clean Water Act. These 1977 amendments were the result of a lawsuit between the Natural Resources Defense Council and Russell E. Train, the administrator of the EPA (NRDC v. Train, 8 E.R.C. 2120 (D.D.C. 1976)). The lawsuit ...