1938: HAMILTON TOWNSHIP'S NEW SEWAGE PLANT

I transcribed the article below in 1981, before I began using the
scanner and a computer.
Thanks to OCR software, the digital output is relatively free
of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) errors, and very easy to edit.

TRENTON SUNDAY TIMES ADVERTISER
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1938
CONSTRUCTION ON NEW SEWAGE PLANT TO BEGIN

In less than a week after bids were received, construction work on Hamilton Township's nearly $3,000,000 sewage system is scheduled to get under way tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with ground-breaking ceremonies on the site of the new disposal plant on Independence Avenue, near the old Camden trolley line. Initial contracts, let to all Trenton firms, cover construction of the disposal plant, including electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating and structural work. Scheduled for completion within a year, the plant will be constructed at a cost of approximately $390,000. As work progresses, bids will be sought for the remainder of the construction program, which involves the laying of some 70 miles of trunk lines, semi-trunks and laterals. F. J. Parker, formerly of Montclair, is the resident engineer in charge of the Federal PWA supervision of the vast project.

1977: Mayor Rafferty on the Expansion of the Hamilton Sewage Facility

Brrrr! It even looks Arctic tundra cold in the photo above as Mayor Jack Rafferty pretends to break frozen ground with the township's ceremonial shovel.

1988: EVEN THEN WE HAD SEWAGE PROBLEMS

HOW APPROPRIATE THAT I WOULD RUN ACROSS THIS 20 YEAR OLD ARTICLE DETAILING THE PROBLEMS WITH HAMILTON'S SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. I WOULD GUESS THAT THIS WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO THE TOWN FATHERS AS A POINT OF REFERENCE WHEN DEALING WITH THE CURRENT SITUATION WHERE EXPENSIVE REPAIRS ARE NEEDED.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1938
CONSTRUCTION ON NEW SEWAGE PLANT TO BEGIN

In less than a week after bids were received, construction work on Hamilton Township's nearly $3,000,000 sewage system is scheduled to get under way tomorrow of afternoon at 3 o'clock with ground-breaking ceremonies on the site of the new disposal plant on Independence Avenue, near the old Camden trolley line. Initial contracts, let to all Trenton firms, cover construction of the disposal plant, including electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating and structural work. Scheduled for completion within a year, the plant will be constructed at a cost of approximately $390,000. As work progresses, bids will be sought for the remainder of the construction program, which involves the laying of some 70 miles of trunk lines, semi-trunks and laterals. F. J. Parker, formerly of Montclair, is the resident engineer in charge of the Federal PWA supervision of the vast project.

TOM’S NOTE:
The PWA mentioned above stood for Public Works Administration;
a program initiated by the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.