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Newark City Engineering Drawings / Books / Booklets, 1952 - 1978

 File — Multiple Containers

Scope and Contents

(6 reels)

Drawings Reels 1-5 are labelled #1, 2, 3, 9 and 10 they contain Engineering Drawings. Reel 1. Engineering drawings. Sewer system, Feb. 9, 1978, tube #1-tube #72 [3rd gen.] -- Reel 2. [continued], tube #73-tube #100 [3rd gen.] -- Reel 3. [continued], tube #101-tube #183 ; miscellanea [3rd gen.] -- Reel 9. Drawings. Commissioners' notes-key [to] Monticello Park, Vailsburgh Annex-sewers [positive] -- Reel 10. Drawings. Bureau of Sewers-AC-1 [to] Duplicates (blue prints) "Bell mouth of Hamburg Pl." [positive]

Books/Booklets This file may have been compiled due to resident uproar regarding a garbage incinerator in the late 1970s. It is an invaluable resource for those studying the garbage incinerator protests or waste disposal issues. Reports span the 1950s-1970s include (in order): Solid Waste Disposal A Plan of Action (city of Newark); Environmental Impact Statement Refuse Processing Facility Newark, NJ CEA-OXY Resource Recovery Associations; Newark's Resource Recovery Program Contract (City of Newark / CEA/Oxy/ Combustion Equipment Associates, Occidental Petroleum Corp.; PSE and G); Full Purchase Agreement between PSE and G and Combustion (1976); Eco-Fuel II The Technology and Economics a report to Combustion Equipment Assoications Inc. by Arthur D. Little Inc.; Concept Paper - Establishment of an Industrial Recyclying Park in the City of Newark, JJ (Dept. of Engineering, 1977); Solid waste disposal bid specifications (1976); Economic Factors in Refuse Derived Fuel Utilization John L. Rose Group Manager Environmental Engineering Syska and Hennessy Inc. Presented at the Eigth National Waste Processing Conference (1978); Report of Municipal Council Committee to Study Methods of Waste Disposal Philip E. Gordon, Frank Addonizio, Lee Bernstein (1964); Newark Solid Waste Management Problems and Solutions Newark College of Engineering; Supplemental Report to the City of Newark, NJ on Municipal Incinerators Louis P. Booz, Cunsulting Engineer, 1953; Report to the City of Newark on Municipal Incinerators (1952?); Housing Authority of the City of Newark and C-O Urban Renewal Corp. Lease of Land and Memorandum of Agreement (1978); First Quarterly Report Solid Waste Disposal Weighing Project (1978); Municipal Refuse Disposal Newark, NJ Gary Brian Liss (Tufts college independent study); Industrial Recycling Park Development Proposal; The acid test for Bridgement by Gregg E. Easterbrook (1978); Resource Recovery and Economic Development Port Authority of NY and NJ (1978); An Analysis of Newark's Resource Recovery Program Rutgers MPA Special Project Gary Brian Liss (1978); Environmental Assessment Statement for the Earthline Chemical Waste Processing and Recovery Facility Newark, NJ prepared for Earthline Company by Wehran Engineering Corporation; Combustion Equipment Associations application statement to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for CEA's Newark Refuse Processing Facility (1977)

Dates

  • 1952 - 1978

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (Linear feet not known)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Existence and Location of Copies

We have two copies of the final reel. It is in 35MM in drawer 9 and in 16MM in Drawer 10.

Repository Details

Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository

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