The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-22
WILL ALL TAP NEWARK
Plenty of Surplus Water
When it is to be
Paid For.
DETAILS OF THE SCHEME.
Bayonne, Montclair and Paterson
Will ALI be Let When the
Supply is Ready.
special to the Jerseu city Ne.es.

clRir w aber company was organized AZ
time when there was some doubt about
John r. Bartlett and others making
bargain to supply Newark with water.
The Montclair Company was one of the
first created under the provisions Of the
new law, and since then this company
has agreed to supply Bayonne with water.
There is long stretch of country be-
tween Montclair and Bayonne. and there
is an inadequats source of supply upon
the peninsula occupied by Bayonne.
Neither is there sufficient supply any-
where in the neighborhood of Monclair.
The question of supplying Montclatr
has been puzzle, and when it comes to
asking Montclair to be the fountain head
for Bayonne the problem seems all the
more difficult. 1t Is easily solved, how
ever, for it is now understood that New
ark's new four foot main Is 10 be tapped
with a two foot branch for Montclair.
just where the tap will be made is not
made public, but it is to be between Lit
tie Falls and Brookdale and probably at
Great Notch.
This is not all. Paterson, too is to be
provided with its share of the Pequan-
mock water flowing through Newark's
big pipe. At least, provisions are being
made for supplying that city. Two six
teen-inch branches for this purpose are to
point where it passes under the main line
of the Lackawanna Railroad above Little
Falls.
Two 16-inch outlets and 24-inch outlet
from 4S-nch pipe would seem likely to
pretty effectually drain it. but it is
merely question of pressure and de-
mand. The only real question is whether
the storage reservoirs can supply it. The
river cannot, in the dry season. There
are times when the whole flow of the PEI
- r. Il L.
inch pipe for months, and at one period
this summer a pipe Of half that size
would have been adequate. 1t is a ques-
tion of holding back water for such emer-
gencies.
The arrangements for supplying New
ark are progressing rapidly, but confer
vative onlookers say that it is not at all
likely that the water can be turned into
the mains this year. There are three con-
tested points which can not be settled un-
til the November term of the court One
is the Slingerland tract at Pompton
Plains, another is the Garrabrant prop
erty at Brookdale. and the other Is the
land leased by the Underhfl Manufacture
ing Company at Franklin. The owners
of property have sold to the Water COM
fhe crossing OF the Lacka-
wanna railroad, near Little Falls
has been accomplished. The
pipe was run under the embankment and
enveloped with concrete, no expensive
arch being constructed. The bridge across
the Passaic near that point is enclosed.
and except for few insignificant breaks
the pipe line is complete TO the reservoir
on the hill back of Belleville. There soma
fine work is being done. The lower part
of the new gatehouse which lets the
water from the pipe into the reservoir is
completed, and five fianges are adjusted
to as many openings in the big pipe
There five branch pipes eighteen inches
in diameter will conduct the water into
the gatehouse, and from the house it will
| flow into the reservoir through three
arches in the inner wall, while the sur
plus will overflow bridge wall and
| flow down through the old supply pipe to
the river
AT THE GATEHOUsE.
In addition to the five f1anges In front
| of the gatehouse five more are being at
| rached to the pipe few hundred feet
wesJ of the reservoir. They will be cap
ped and will remain closed until such
| time as it may be deemed necessary to
build another reservoir west of the
present one. A short distance further
west five more eighteen-incn holes are
being cut and Hanged, and peculiar set
| of branches are being attached to the
four-foot pipe to connect It with the
| three-foot pipe, which is well under
| way toward Newark, and which
will conduct the water to the South
| Orange avenue reservoir. Instead
Of letting the water into the three-foot
pipe directly through three-foot OPEN
| ing. it is considered better to divide it up
| through live openings, which concentrates
| in the three foot connection. A short dis
| tance above this connection in the big
pipe will be placed newly invented
| measuring apparatus which will show the
| Quantity of water flowing through the
conduit. Another will be placed in the
| three-foot pipe below the connection, and
| o.on will ha fittad with racQrdiQQ apDa-
ratus.
The pipe will have to be thoroughly
| tested before the job is finished. This will
| be done with the natural head from the
| intake reservoir IL has been tested as
| far as Pompton Notch, ana was found to
be remarkably tight.
| At the South Orange reservoir the foun-
| dstion is being laid for the gatehouse,
| which will be similar to the one at Belle
| vile. 1t has been asserted that the city
| has made mistake in not demanding a
| standpipe at this point to insure a supply
in the upper floor OF houses above the res
! ervoir. Instead Of q standpipe the COM
| pany will put in pressure valve invent
ed by Engineer Sherriffs. the first assist
! ant on the work. Vita this device q
| constant pressure is secured for sect ions
supplied directly from the main, and the
excess is allowed to flow into the reser-
| yoir from which spillway will carry of
| all the water not required for the supply
of that part of the city fed by the reser-
| vor.
The three-foot pipe which will conduct
the water through the upper part Of the
| CITY is made of sheet steel, riveted in the
same manner as the four-foot conduit.
| 1t will cross the canal and the Morris and
| Essex Railway ON the way to the reser-
voir. Several hundred yards of this pipe
have been laid and the work is being
| nushed rapidly. Engineer Sears is IN
| charge of the work in this neighborhood,
and he is helped by Engineer David
| Waite. who is constantly in the field,
| The Clinton reservoir will be COM
| pleted in three weeks, it is said. and tha5
at Oak Ridge requires less than weeks
work to make it ready for the water. un-
| less it is insisted that there shall be no
less than eight feet of water at any point.
| This is said to be one of the terms of the
| contract If it means that the reservoirs
snail have abrupt banks throughout it
will be long while before the work is
| accomplished. and it will cost the East
| Jersey Water Company hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars not down in the
| calculations.