The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-09

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pose of choosing such candidates, conse-
| duently those officials are left to be nomi-
| mated otherwise, than under the proposed
law.
The act is draw with a view to its hex-
| Utility. Sections inserted may be omitted,
or vice versa. 1t can readily be accommo-
! dated to any changes that may be made IN
| the existing ballot reform law
Without further dwelling upon details, the
| appended bill is submitted for the carefui
| consideration of your Honorable Bodies,
with the earnest recommendation that IL, OF
one similar thereto, be enacted. Under 9
| law containing such provisions, the power OF
| the political boss will be destroyed and the
influence of the machine become merely
advisory. The powers usurped by those
| agencies will be restored to and exercised
by the aggregate voters of the respective
parties.
WATER sUPPLY
1t is of the utmost public Importance that
measures be speedily taken for the syste.
matte control, by the State, of the sources OF
potable water supply within its borders Tor
the common benefit of all its citizens. This,
| a matter of more or less interest to the en-
| tire public, has already become OF speclal
| and Immediate concern to the populous com
! munities in the northeastern section OF the
State. In this connection, n as demon
| stratipg the Importance of the subject, the
| following extract from the late report OF the
State Geologist is submitted !,
sit seems fitting that the Survey should
again set forth the sources now available Tor
| supplying northern New Jersey towns with
water. Briefly, these are the following
Watersheds
Hackensack above New Milford. -Eleva-
ton at outlet, 4 feet. Supplying capacity,
$3.50, 900 gallons daily, used by Hackensack
Water Co., Recognized, to supply Hoboken,
Hackensack, &c.
Saddle River above Paramus Elevation
at outlet. 20 feet. Supplying capacity, a.,
OOO, 900 gallons daily. Not utilized,
Ramapo above Pompton .-Elevation, 2oS
feet. Supplying capacity, 107, 0o0,O00 gallons
daily. Not utilized.
Wanaque above Pompton-Elevation, 200
feet. Supplying capacity, T3,0Oo,O0o gallons
daily. OF the 100 square miles of water shed
2S square miles are tributary to
Lake, a storage reservoir of Morris Canal
the waters of which have to flow almost the
whole course of the stream. The rights OF
the canal company on this stream are I'M
portant.
Pequannock above Pompton.-Elevation Of
outlet, 220 feet. Supplying capacity, Do.
600, 900 gallons daily. Utilized by East Jer-
sey Water Company for Newark supply. -.
Rockaway above Boonton Elevation 4o0
feet. Supplying capacity, {, 10000 0 gallons
daily. Not utilized. The Morris Cana!
draws its supply from Lake Hopatcong anu
has claimed that it diverts 10 water from
the Rockaway permanently.
The above are the only practicable sources
of supply north of the Raritan water shed
which are sufficient for towns of over TWEEN
ty thousand inhabitants. Of these, only
Saddle River, Ramapo, Wanaque and Rock.
away Rivers are available for new systems OF
supply of any magnitude. The aggregate
supplying capacity of these four streams is
27f. 000, 900 gallons daily. These are the
sources to which our large cities must go in
order to acquire ample, independent sup
plies.
The Importance of a proper development
of these sources has frequently been pointed
out, and it grows in the eyes of the closer OBJ
server. with every census, and with every ae-
emulation of data as to our water sheds.
Taking the counties of Hudson, Essex and
Union, with Passaic, north, to and including
Paterson, and Bergen, northward to Hacken-
sack, we have a population practically de-
pendent upon public water supply systems.
The growth of this population is shown by
the following table,