Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting 



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Cost of erecting pump-house No. 2 



Necessary wiring 



New parts of equipment 



$650.00 

 , 87.46 

 , 34.45 



771.91 



Cost of concrete wall around sump or runway 



425.00 



Grand total 



$2,544.30 



In addition to the ordinary care of Frank Creek section, the cost 

 , of improvements by the Commission and the Kearny Town Coimcil, 

 completed and under way, will amount to approximately $23,142.80 

 for the past season. 



The Erie Railroad Company has agreed to drop 36-inch iron 

 pipes under the Newark and Pater son Branch of the Erie Railroad 

 near Frank Creek to a depth of twenty inches to lay a 36-inch 

 concrete pipe sixty feet long on piles under the old Erie Railroad 

 spur, one thousand feet west of Frank Creek, and concrete pipe of 

 same dimensions under old Greenwood Lake Branch of the Erie 

 Railroad, near the Hackensack River, at a cost of $3,717.00. This 

 improvement has been before the railroad people for several years. 

 It is at present fairly under way. The plans and specifications were 

 made last summer and cost placed in the 1919 budget, and has been 

 approved by the Federal Railroad Controller. We expect the im- 

 provement to go forward without further delay, and if completed 

 by the beginning of the coming season, a grand total of $26,859.80 

 will have been expended on the Frank Creek section in mosquito 

 elimination work since the beginning of last season. 



Another improvement undertaken by the Commission in co- 

 operation with Bergen County and the Du Pont Powder Company, is 

 a new double sluice-gate at Sawmill Creek, the dividing line between 

 Hudson and Bergen Counties. This work is under the supervision 

 of the State Entomologist, is progressing nicely, and is expected to 

 very much improve conditions, not only in Hudson County, but in 

 Bergen as well. The cost of this improvement will amount to ap- 

 proximately $3,000.00. 



Results of present season's work proved satisfactory, notwith- 

 standing the shortage of help and the high cost of material. The 

 Jersey City Meadows, and in fact all other sections of the County, 

 except the Frank Creek section, were kept in excellent shape during 

 the season and very little trouble was experienced from mosquitoes. 

 Arlington and West Hudson were considerably troubled late in 



