The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-06
new WATER PLANS.
Chief Ruggles Submits Spe-
cifiCations to the Street
and Water Board.
BY THE MILLION GALLONS.
The Supply Must Be Pure
Ample and All in New
Jersey.
Elaborate Conditions and Option
to Buy-Bids Called for
the goth:
BY THE MILLION GALLONS.


ing adopted revised specifications for
new wafer supply and directed Clerk
Bouton to advertise for bids under the
new specifications to be opened on Fe ebru-
airy 90. The specifications were reported
by majority of the Committee Of the
Whole, President Madden and Mr.
Dugan refusing TO join in the report.
When the adoption Of the report was
placed on final passage, President Mad
pen voted aye and Mr.. Dugan no. The
other members voted aye. These are
the specifications:-
Proposals will be received at the meet-
ing of the Board of Street and Water Conn
missioners at the meeting room Of said
ommissioners on the corner of Jersey
avenue and Mercer street, IN Jersey ClGYs
en- Monday the Goth day of February, A.
D., 1898, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
from Contractors TO furnish new water
supply to Jersey City, In lieu OF the
present supply.
The'city will contract for new supply
of pure and wholesome water for period
of twenty-five years commencing from
(unless such supply Is sooner purchased
by the city as hereinafter pYovided), and
will agree Co take and pay for, during
such term at least twentY-sWo million
gallons of water daily.
The water is to be delivered into Re-
ceiviDg Reservoir NO. ], at BelleVllies
New Jersey. by gravity.
Each bidder shall state in his proposal
for what price peg million galleps he will
deliver such water into said Receiving
Reservoir No. at Belleville.
The minimum supply per day Will be
twenty-five million gallons, but the city
shall have the first right and claim TO all
water collected end stored by the con-
tractor to the extent of 5O,oo0,000 gallons
daily, and to supply per day mp to and
including 100000 gallons daily II re-
quired.
PURE AND WHOLESOME.
The water shall be pure and whole-
some. 1t shall be collected In the State
of New Jersey, thesource to be approved
by the Board of Street and Water Conn
missioners.
The water to be supplied and delivered
by the contractor shall be an nindependen5
supply and shall be conveyed by gravity
by means of cast iron or steel pines and
conduits of sufficient dimensions
strength. length and capacity to deliver
| into the Receiving Reservoir No. l, at
Belleville, New Jersey, 45,o0o.oOo gallons
of water daily, at the time OF the nrss
| delivery.
Said supply must be conveyed to the
Reservoir aforesaid, through such cast
| iron or steel pipe or pipe lines suniciens
| to convey at least thirty-dve million gal-
| Ions of water daily. which pipe line snail
| be so constructed and operated as TO en-
| able the contractor at any time 60 use tne
same exclusively for the city to meet lsS
requirements to the extent aforesaid, OF
| in case OF its election to purchase the
! water supply for which an opsion is 20 Do
| given, to deliver said pipe line, with
water supply of fifty million gallons per
! day forever freed from claims or demands
| shall have taken for q period or three
| months from said contractor
an average daily supply OF
| rhirty.two million gallons of water, said
| contractor shall within eighteen Q9
| mouths from the first day of March nexts
ensuing after being requested by the city
| In writing, construct an additional IN
dependent pipe line sufficient TO convey
| to the city, not less than fifteen million
| gallous of water daily and upon the com.
| pletion of said additional pipe line. ths
| city shall thenceforth take and pay for
minimum supply or th1rty-nVe (So) nl.-
| lion gallons of water daily.
| Said contractor shall, however, have
acquired q sufficient right of way from
| the source of supply to said BelIevlue
reservoir, and shall at any time and all
| times be ready to construct said addition
| al independent pipe line, through and
upon said contractors own right OF way,
| at any time after date OF said CONTRACT
| upon such request of said city.
| PAY BY THE MILLION.
| The water will be paid for by the mil
| lion gallons, United States standard,
monthly on the twentieth day of each
month In each year for water delivered
| up to the first day of said months re-
| sDectiveIy, upon proper certificates OF
! the quantity delivered.
| It snail be measured by aud at the ex-
pense of the Coutractor. subject to the as
| spection of the Guys officers. lu case OF
| dispute of the amount delivered, the city
| shall pay the sum conceded to be due and
| the disputed amount shall be settled by
| arbitration. i
| The city will agree to pay the water
| rental when earned to such depository, as
| 1t may be directed by the Contractor.
| The Contractor shall provide indepen-
| dent reservoirs and storage basiuss
| located in such places within the State or
| New Jersey, as to receive upon the basis
| of the minimum annual rain fall since
| 1880 and capable of storing q sunply OF
| water for one hundred (l0O) days delivery
| hereunder. which reservoirs and STORAGE
| basins shall always actually contain
| reserve supply for sixty (6o) days.
The City Will place at the spoS al OF
the Contractor full and adequate 20 wers
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