The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-15
NEWARK'S NEW WATER.
Work Shortly to be Resumed on the
Great PequannOck Reservoir.
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NEWARK, April Is, 1s91.-The East
Jersey Water Company has applied to the
city for assistance in condemniDg right
Of way through fourteen tracts of land in
the route Of its pipe iine- The Common
Council will probably take the necessary
action at its next meeting, and commits
sioners viii then be appointed by the
court to assess the damages. This is done
under acts OF the Legislature of 1890 and
1891, new law extending the power Of
the city in acting on behalf Of the water
company having been passed last winter.
The tracts in question are the Last OF q
large number which the company has re-
quired for its pipe line. aud nearly all the
land needed has been acquired 1t private
sale. Surveyor Harrison Van Duyne mas
acted for the company in the purchase in
this vicinity. The pipe line is making
rapid progress and there will be no delay
In regard to this part Of the work.
The East Jersey Company has been
buying a number Of the water privileges
held by the land owners along the
Peqnannock river below the Macopin in
take and has paid liberal prices for them
They are, however, Of comparatively
small value. There has been no settle
ment with the Butter Rubber Company,
nor with three other mill owners In and
near Butler. The rubber company is re-
dorted to demand 5000 which IS said
to be twice the amoant the company is
willing 10 pay. It's total expenses for
water rights are said to have been about
S1O0 600 so far. The company win not, il
is said, make any special effort to reach a
settlement with the Butler mill owners
1t expects to be able to maintain sufh-
eient How of water after supplying New
ark to give the mills all the water needed
to run them No Arrangement 70 con-
struct reservoir for their special benefit
has been made, although it was reported
tiEar saElr scheme was IN oentemp4a-
ton.
Mayor Haynes and James Smith, Jr..
visited the works at the PeQuannock last
week, spending couple OF days exan1in-
ing the progress made. They made their
headquarters for their visit az John 4.
Browns hotel, New Foundland, and vis-
tied the reservoir sites, and then drove
over the route followed by the pipe line
as far as Montclair. The company began
operations on the works. after the Win
ter suspension, about two weeks ago and
has several hundred men engaged at
present They are making rapid prog
nearing competion. There is con-
siderable water in the swamp, which is
part of the site Of Clinton reservoir; and
Mr.. Smith suggested 10 the Mayor that
the company should be required to drain
this thoroughly aud to cleanse the bot
tom, which is said to have good deal
of rotten vegetable matter. The masonry
work at the Macopin intake reservoir is
Hearly completed. The stream will again
be diverted soon, and the masonry dam
finished where the river now runs. IL is
necessary to go down th1rty-hve feet for
a foundation in some places at Macopin.
The Standard OIL Company's pipe line,
which crossed the Clinton reservoir ard
spirited the PequannocK for a consider
able distance above the reservoir, has
been removed to a safe distance from the
stream, and will not menace the new
water supply,