The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-15
NEWARK'S WATER WORKS
THE EAST JERSEY co. PREPARING
TO BRING THE NEW SUPPLY.

The Plans That Are Being Followed
Young Trenton EIopers-Le Coney
Pleads Not Guilty-A Newark Woman
Tries to XIII Herself in n Cell.
The East Jersey Water Company estab-
lished headquarters in Paterson on
Thursday fol. its corps of engineers and
surveyors on the Newark water supply
scheme. Paterson was chosen because it
was the most suitable location for the
work, it being on both the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western and the Sus-
quehanna Railroads. From Paterson the
work will be directed, and the men
engaged upon it will go out from
here.
Chief Engineer Herschel, of the East
Jersey Company, was seen by a reporter
on Thursday in New York and asked to
give the news in regard to the work Of
the company. He said that the work at
the present time was preliminary, it con-
sisting entirely of getting ready to go to
work actively.
1--WE will do as much as possible this
fall before freezing weather sets in. and,
in fact, right through the winter, for a
great deal of work can be done in clearing
ground and telling trees in cold weather,
and we want to have everything ready for
the masons early ia the spring. All work
of this kind goes along better if it is be-
gun during the previous fall. The erec-
ton of the dams will probably be COM
menced about the middle of next April
and pushed as rapidly as is consistent
with good work. About the first con-
~structive work will be at the intake dam,
which will be built of solid masonry
across the Pequannock below the outlet
of Echo Lake. One thing | can safely say
is that beyond q question of q doubt the
new water supply of Newark will be as
pure as any in this country. | do not
know of q more favorably situate source
OF pure water than that in the Pequan-
mock Valley. | will stake my professional
reputation upon that"
Mr.. Herschel said that besides the in
take reservoir two large storage reser-
voirs would be built to contain seven
thousand million gallons of water. One
will be situated at the Jennings place
near Oak Ridge, and will cover 1926 acres.
This will be directly on the Pequannock
River. Another reservoir covering 440
acres will be located on Mossman's Brook
at Clinton, where there is a pretty falls.
Mossman's Brook is the outlet of Hanks,
Cedar and Buckabear ponds. all of which
are above the reservoir site. Both of these
huge reservoirs will have earth dams
with masonry cores, and will be built in
the most thorough manner with efficient
wasteways.
Some Of the work will b. contracted
for, but q great deal of it will be day work
performed by the company's men. The
preliminary work of clearing the ground
will all be done by the company. The
pipe question has not been settled yet,
nor has the route of the pipe line been
decided. Some portions of the canal will
be used, but not in such a manner as to
interfere with navigation, and the canal
will not be abandoned. Between the
storage reservoirs and the intake the
water will run five miles in a rapid brook
which will thoroughly oxidize it and
deliver it into the pipes in the best pos
sible condition.
The country from which the supply is
to be taken is chiefly mountainous and is
sparsely settled, so that there is no danger
Of the water being polluted.