The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-16
new WATER PROPOSAL.
Very Similar to That of the
Moffett, Hodgkins and
Clarke Company.

President N. E. Reed, Of the Richmond
and Chesapeake Railroad Company
offers to furnish Jersey City with a
bountiful supply of pure water.
Mr.. Reed in his proposition explains
that he has not submitted an estimate OF
the Street and Water Board before.
owing to the fact that his associates had
not. at the time of the advertisement for
bids, contemplated tue purchase OF the
Cowpar-Lord estate; which comprises the
immense rolling mills situated on the
Rockaway Valley, on the north bank at
Boonton. On this account and many
other he also refrains from stating any
price at which he and his COM
any will agree to supply
the necessary amount of water re CURED
by the city. He will do his later. he
says, if he will be permitted TO submit a
proposal, accompanied by a bond Ut suf-
fcient amount TO insure the falthiul
carrying out of the contract to give the
supply. In the proposition Mr.. Reed
reviews a report of Charles ). Swain,
nj AIDE in 1890. which o. that d Turing
the dry months 1888 cubic feet OF wRter
flows into the Rockaway Valley per see.
and, or SO. 424, 900 Il day OF twenty-four
hours. FMS estimate is inclusive, ton,
Ol tle AtI1OuuG VI dUCl lCAaAAC0 -
use of the Morris Canal Company aboye
its inclined plane ut Boonton, from
whence riia overflow which operates rhe
Cowper-Lord Mills Is derived.
Once in about every eight years there is
an unusually dry SEASON and during this
period about ninety-eight cnhle feet OF
water per second passes into the Valley.
or 63, 5L4, 600 gallons per DAY. MIR. Reeds
plan is to establish TWO Immense storage
reservoirs aud also an intake al Boonton.
This rart of the %pronosal is identical with
Moffeit, HodgkimS & Ciarke's, but differs
from Mr.. Riley's, as h. proposes estao-
lisning his storage basins AMI intake at
Poweryiile, three miles above Boonton,
thus profiting by the fall of $40 feet,
which is apparent betW zen Powervllle
aud Boonton.
WILL FILTER AND PURIFY.
Mr.. Reed proposes fIrerinx and purify
ing the water ia his reservoirs. 80 DO
the Moffett, Hodgkins & Clarke people.
but Mr.. Riley says tbs water at the point
OF his intake is as pnre as possible aud
needs aerarion only. which system he
adopts.
Mr.. Reed DOUBTS if a sufficient supply
of water to meet JERSEY Gigs demands
can be arquiied ABOVE Boouton. Tbs
MoffetJ people argue i'll the same strain.
but Engineer Vermeute for Mr.. Riley
says that there il enough and Ia spare &C
Powsrviile. Mr.. Reed is doubtful. al 20,
II the water can be delivered ut High
Service by gravity II taken above BOOM
tou. s
Mr.. Riley contends that he gains a
Roadway by taking the water at Power
vile of $40 feet over Boont3n. which, by
allowing d liberal percentage for friction.
would enptv Jhs water into the Orange
Mountain Valley at Moptclair- with such
a head that when it entered the pipes at
%i- F,n,fh1r AnAZNf fhn hin Mnpfninir
reservoir not only could he deliver
it into High Service, but 90 feet higher if
necessary.
Mr.. Reed also raises the interesting
point OF the rights of the Morris Canal
Company above Boonton. At Booato1i
the Morris Canal Company receives It's
Ii, 000, 900 gallons italy from Lake Hopat-
cong, and is compelled under an agree
meut extending over Il term of sixt y-fivs
years, to use. not ouly enough water Il
operate the plant at Boontou, nut to per.
ate the big mills of the Cowper LORD
Estate. He maintains that to establish
an intAke above Boontou would necessi
late the condemnation of the Canal Com
tany's property, and he questions the
power of auy individual or c~orpuratlon to
do this. Even should an intake be IS
tablished above BoontoD. he maintains
that under the laval the Canal Company
or the person or lersons securing lis
right would have TO give a sufficient SUP.
ply of water su as not III any way to eff
feet the workings of the Cowper Lord
Works. He explains thSt he aud his
associates, foreseeing this difficulty. had
paid a deposit with u view to purchasing
The Cowper Lord Works and although
taking considerable of the water coming
down int the boonton Valley would
still leave enough to operate the mills.
Hugh Riley also claims to have au
opLion on the Cowper Lord Works. MIR,
Reed proposes ouly one method of dis
posing of the Boonton and Dover sew
age and that IN by carrying it into the
Rockaway ut a point below the intake.
LIKE THE N. Il. & C. PROPOSAL.
Tbs proposal is very much like Moffett
Hod2kins & CIarke's. Some action is &c
be taken on the question of a water sup
ply in "A short time. as not only are the
city officials being complained to Of the
filthy stuff extracted from the Passaic at
Belleviils, but the hen lth officials ar
also being complained To about its fright
full condition.
The Orange sewers are nearing com
pletion and two days ago Mr.. Lebbens b.
Ward showed Aching Mayor Simpson an
article in q Paterson paper wherein II
was stated that Orange proposed without
delay. emptying its filth anu sewage Into
the Passaic.
Finance Commissioner Detwilier ans
Acting Mayor Simpson are greatly inter
terested in the question OF new wafer
supply and they intend, while in Office,
bringing the matter To a head and dis
posing Of IL in a satisfactory manner.