The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-18
FIFTY MILLION GALLONS A DAY
Must Be by Gravity and Have
Sufficient Force to Supply
All Parts of the City.
FROM THE PAssAIC WATERSHED
Bonds in s1,5OO,oO0 and Deposit
of 100000 Required of
the Contractor.

the Contractor.
The Street and Water Commissioners
tackled the water problem in busi-
ness like manner last night. What they
had to do was in open meeting. There
were no star chamber sessions, no con-
sultations with representatives of water
syndicates. Everything was open and
above board.
The honor of bringing the matter be-
fore the meeting fell upon Commissioner
Kellers.
ION behalf of the Committee of the
Whole of this board" he said. Il de-
sire to present for adoption specifica-
tions for the acquisition of supply of
pure and wholesome water for Jersey
City. These specifications were prepared
by Chief Engineer Ruggles and amended
by the Committee of the Whole"
The specifications were ordered filed.
They are iron clad and the shrewd
hand of City Attorney Weart is discern
ible in them. They are as follows
SPECIFICATIONS FOR A NEW WATER
SUPPLY FOR JERSEY CITY, ADOPTED
SEPTEMBER Il, 1894
Proposals viii be received at the meeting of
the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers on the corner of Jersey avenue and Mercer
street, in Jersey City, on the 22d day OF
October. 1884, at eight O'Clock in the evening.
from contractors to furnish new water sup
ply to Jersey City in lieu Of the present sup
ply The city will contract for a new supply
of pure and wholesome water for period of
T1,.a first
delivery of water hereunder, and will agree
to take and pay for during such term at
least twenty million gallons of water daily.
The water is to be delivered at Jersey City
Heights by gravity at a sufficient head or
pressure to supply all buildings in all parts
of Jersey City without pumping. This will
include direct connections with the present
mains in the city for delivery. The delivery
for the sections of the city served by
high service station shall be delivered at a
point to be designated at head of ninety
feet above water level of High Service Reser-
voir, which is 1872 ftet above mean high tide.
Connections shall be made with proper regu-
lating devices for delivery of water into
BellevilIe reservoir and the two reservoirs
on Jersey City Heights. which water shall
be so delivered as not to diminish the head
OF pressure provided for.
Each bidder shall state in his proposal
for what price per million gallons he will
deliver such water, which proposal must
state graded price for which water will
be furnished based on a daily consumption
between 90 900 and So O0O,o 900 gallons per
day. The minimum supply per day will be
upon an annual average of 23,o0o0oo gallons
per day, but the city shall have the right
to require the delivery of any amount of
70 fd ,ralI nd
the storage capacity of the water supply and
the carrying capacity of the pipes or con-
duits shall be sufficient for the delivery OF
not less than 50.0O0,0OO gallons daily at all
seasons if so much shall be required. The
water shall be pure and wholesome. 1t shall
collected in the State of New Jersey from the
Passaic watershed above the great falls at
Paterson, or from any other source within
said State outside of said watershed to be
approved by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners. The city viii provide in its
contract for standard Of purity for said
water, which will be the standard known
as the Michigan standard In case the water
falls below said standard the city shall be
at liberty to withhold all fragments fer water
until the contractor. at his own cost, shall
have proved the same to have been up to the
standard to the satisfaction Of the city.
The water shall be conveyed by gravity
by means of cast-iron steel pipes or con
duits Of sufficient dimensions. strength ami
capacity, to deliver as Aforesaid nfty million
gallons of water daily, at the time of the
fret delivery.
The water to be delivered to the city BY
the contractor shall be an indApenGent supply
that is to say, the city IS to~ nave the frs
claim and right to all water collected anc
stored under this contract by said contractor
to the cytent of 5o,0O0.glO salons daily. The
contractor shall not suppIy water to an,
rresen. consumer of jersey City water. nJl
TO any consumer within Jersey City
Said supply must be conveyed to the main.
and reservoirs aforesaid through a cast-irol
or steel pipe or pipe lines sufficient to conve,
at least $4,000, 900 gallons of water daily
which pipe line shall be SO constructed ant
operated as to enable the contractor a
any time to use the same exclusively fo
the city to meet its requirements to the ex
tent aforesaid, or, in case of its election tt
purchase the water supply, for which al
option is to be given, to deliver said pip
line or lines with water supply Of $1,000, 90
gallons per day forever, freed from the de
nnands of any other consumer.
No supply shall be considered which is no
naturally. pure and wholesome, or which re
cal treatment. The contractor shall maintai'
and keep the sources Of supply in state o
purity, and shall protect and preserve tn
same from contamination and pollution from
any source whatever at all times during th
continuance of the contract
The water will be paid for by the million
gallons, United States standard, quarterly
for water delivered up to the quarter day
upon proper certificates of the quantity de
liyered 1t shall be measured by and at tn
expense of the contractor, subject to the in
snection of the city's- officers. In case 0
dispute of the amount delivered the city snal
nav the sum which the city comedies to b.
due and the disputed amount shall be settlec
by arbitration
The city will agree to pay the water renta
when earned to such depository as it may b.
directed by the contractor.
The contractor shall provide in his plan
reservoirs and storage basins located who'll,
in places within the State Of New Jersey
which reservoirs and storage basins shall b
Il sudaoient capacity to provide supply o