Procj:edings 01^ Fii^TH Annual Meeting 21 



The Hercules P'jowder Plant and the Dui Pont WiOrks have now 

 SO' perfected their process O'f wringing that the acid has been 

 reduced to less than i per cent. 



Just now there is in process of erection, at a cost of nearly 

 seven million dollars, I understand, a depot for munitions and 

 army stores on the groiund formerly owned by the Nixon Nitra- 

 tion Works. 



'On the Carteret marsh, south, oi the Raritan River, the Mexi- 

 can Petroleum Corporation made a large fill along the Arthur 

 Kill. In the course of this fill they closed over the principal 

 drainage channel, utterly ruining the drainage O'f a large section 

 O'f the salt marsh. We asked the Mexican Petroleum people to 

 repair the harm done. After a considerable amionnt of explana,- 

 tion, they appropriated the money necessary tO' replace the drain 

 by digging a, new ditch. That ditch has been completed and is 

 in operation. ' 



We have before us the building of another depot on Cheese- 

 quake Creek. We do- not knov^ what the plans are f or filling at 

 that point, but we fear them as we do the other places filled. 



We feel that we have certain special problems in Middlesex 

 County this year of a peculiarly difficult and troublesome nature. 

 We feel that tO' carry on the work to the best advantage, we must 

 obtain the co-operation of the firm engaged in doing this filling. 



We have a, special problem in dye waste. We have a concern 

 which calls itself the Synthetic Chemical Company. It seems to 

 throw out a large amount of this waste. Thus far we have not 

 solved this problem. We simply require these people to carry 

 their material through a flume or a ditch to the river. I hope 

 that when Mr. Young discusses this question he may give us some 

 light on it. 



The upland work has continued as before. We oiffer super- 

 vision for locally supported mosquito campiaigns> and we always 

 have three or four municipalities willing to take advantage of 

 this ofifer. 



Mr. Louis J. Richards (Union County) — D'r. Headlee's re- 

 marks are extremely pertinent, I think. He is to be congratu- 

 lated for bringing our attention so clearly to the danger of chem- 

 ical effluents to mosquito control. There is an act already intro- 



