The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-24
That Is the Water Supply
Engineer Ruggles' Speci-
fications Call For.
WHOLLY INDEPENDENT.
Jersey City Not To Be a
Tributary To Newark
Our Own Reservoirs
and Pipes.
IMMEDIATE CALL FOR BIDS.
Prompt Action of the Street
and Water Board-De-
livery By Gravity.
WHOLLY INDEPENDENT.
IMMEDIATE CALL FOR BIDS.

livery By Gravity.
Chief Engineer Ruggles filed with the
Street and Water Board. this morning. his
finally revised specifications for the pro-
cursment of new supply of pure water
for this city. The Board promptly
adopted the specifications and ordered
that preparations be made at once to
advertise for bids for the furnishing of
the supply according to the requirements
laid down.
Following is the full text of the speci-
fications:
JERSEY CITY, October g. 1892
To the Board of Street and Water Commission
Your COMMITTEES of the Whole and the
Chief Engineer report the accompanying
specifications for furnishing pure ana
wholesome supply of water for Jersey
City, they recommend the adoption of the
same and the advertisement for proposals
based thereon.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR NEW SUPPLY OF
WATER FOR JERSEY CITY.
Proposals will be received at the meet
ing of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners, on the corner OF jersey
avenue and Mercer streets In Jersey City,
on the day of instant, at
ten o'clock in the forenoon. from con-
tractors to furnish new water supply to
Jersey City In lieu of the present SIMPLY.
The city will contract for q new supply
OF pure and wholesome water for period
of TWENTY-FIVE years, commencing from
the first delivery of water Hereunder,
and will agree to take and pay for during
such term at least twenty-five million
gallons of water daily.
The water is to be delivered into Re-
ceiving Reservoir No. !, at Belleville,
New jersey, by gravity.
Each bidder shall state in his proposal
for what price per million gallons he will
deliver such water into said Receiving
Reservoir No. l, at Belleville.
The minimum supply per day will be
twenty-five million gallons, but the city
shall have the right to require the de-
livery of any amount of water per day up
to thirty-f1ve million gallons.
The water shall be pure and whole
some. It shall be collected in the State
of New Jersey, from the Passaic Water
Shed above the great falls st Paterson.
or from some other source within said
State outside of said water shed to be
first approved by the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners.
1t shall be conveyed by gravity By
means OF cast iron pipes and conduits of
sufficient dimensions, strength, length
and capacity, to deliver into said reser-
voir thtrty-1ve million gallons of water
daily.
AN INDEPENDENT SUPPLY.
The water to be delivered TO the city
by the contractor shall be an independeut
supply. that is TO say, the city is to have
The first claim and right to all water coll
lected and stored by said contractor to
the extent OF 65, 000. 600 gallons daily If re-
quired.
Said supply must be conveyed to the
reservoir aforesaid through cast iron
piDe, or pipe lines sufficient to convey
that quantity of water daily, which pipe
liue shall SO be constructed anu operated
as TO enable the contractor at any time TO
use the same exclusively for the city to
meet its requirements to the extent afore-
said, or in case OF its election to purchase
the water supply, for which an option is
to be given. to deliver said pipe line, with
a water supply of rhirty-five million gal
Ions per day forever freed from the de-
mandS Of any other consumer.
NO supply shalt be considered which is
not naturally pure and wholesome, OF
which requires filtration. or other arti-
fetal or chemical treatment.
The water will be paid for by the mil
lion gallons, United States Standard,
monthly on tine 20th days of each month,
in each year for water delivered up to
the first day of said months, respectively
upon proper certificates of the quantity
delivered. 1t shall be measured by and
aL the expense of the contractor. subject
TO the inspection of the city's officers. In
case. OF dispute Of the amount delivered
the city snail pay the sum conceded TO be
due. and the disputed amount shall lie
settled BY arbitration.
The city will agree to pay the water
rental when earned TO such depository as
it may be directed oy the contractor.
INDEPENDENT RESERVOIRS.
The contractor shall provide independ-
ent reservoirs and storage basins, located
in such places within the State OF New
Jersey, as to receive upon the basis of he
minimum annual rain fall since 1880 and
capable of storing a supply of water fol
one hundred days. delivery hereunder
which reservoirs and storage basin.
shall always actually contain a reserve
supply for sixty days.
The contractor is to keep in order the
existing pumping plant OF the city al
Belleville for the term Of three years
from the date of the first delivery o.
water, at his own expense.
All work performed by the contractor
and all materials used in the construction
of said reservoirs, pipe line and plant
shall be subject to the inspection of tbs
city or its officers, TO whom copies of ali
plans shall be submitted from time tc
tirae,
The works are to be completed within
TWO years from the date of contract with
the city unless performance is prevented
by strikes, injnnctions or other causes
not within thecontrol of the contractor.
The city will place at the disposal O
the contractor full mud adequate poweri
To enable him TO acquire by condemna,
tion the necessary lands for right OF way