The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-09
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS.

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS.
From the East Jersey Water Company:
N. Y, April 70, 1895.
To the Honorable Boar of Street and
Water Commissioners, Jersey City,
n. ].
Gentlemen.-In answer to your resolu-
ton of April LIST, we beg to state: That
after investigation, we find a this COM
pany can, if desired, connect it's proposed
main from Great Notch to Belleville with
the auxiliary main called for under
Specification A, in such a manner as to
deliver the water by gravity from our
reservoir at Great Notch directly into
the reservoir on Bergen Heights, and at
a sufficient head to supply the most
elevated portions of Jersey City, through
a proper stand pipe, without the use of
the present or any pumping station on
Bergen Heights, at the same time de-
livering the residue of the water di!
rectly into the Bergen Heights Reservoir
named.
This can be done by delivering the
whole supply by gravity to Bergen
Heights, at a greater head thar is neces-
sary to reach the level of the Bergen
Heights Reservoir. At the elevation so
obtained, the water will itself afford the
necessary power to lift the portion re-
CURED for the stand pipe service to the
height of 210 feet above tide. In flowing
into the reservoirs, the water will pass
through a hydraulic engine. This en-
CINE, operating automatically, will lift
20 to 25 per cent. of the entire volume
of water to the required height of 210
feet, thus affording a continuous, com
plete supply for the stand pipe service.
AS is well known, the cost of main
tenance and operation of a hydraulic
engine of this class is nominal.
A short branch pipe from the main to
the Belleville Reservoir can be used at all
times to keep that reservoir full for dis
tributing or storage purposes. In order
to insure the above results, this com
pany would expect to construct not only
the conduit from Great Notch to Belle
vile, but also. under the acceptance of
its bid therefor, the auxiliary main
across the meadows.
We are ready TO discuss this plan with
the city. if desired, but beg to point
out that it would appear to involve I'M
necessary additional expense, which we
| estimate at about $500, OOO, resulting from
the fact hi by no plan that can be
devised by gravity or by pumping at the
intake can the comparatively small guam
tity of water needed for the stand pipe
service be delivered at an elevation of
| 30 feet so cheaply as by pumping it at
and from the Bergen Heights Reser-
voir. This extra. cost of $500, 600 was not
contemplated by our bid, as the latter
was made on the basis Of delivery at
| the lower elevation required by the speci-
fication.
If. as we suppose, what is desired by
| the city is to be relieved of the respon-
sibility and cost OF the present pumping
| plant for the stand pipe service, we are
willing to undertake to deliver the water
required at High Service without cost to
the city, on the basis of our bid, sub
mitted March 18th. the city to turn over
to our n the use Of the pumping
plant at Bergen Heights, and the COM
pany to undertake the entire cost Of ope-
| ration n maintenance of the same
during the term of the contract.
The temporary supply will be deliv-
| cred into the Belleville reservoir within
| six months from Hate Of contract, as
| stated in our bid. But as soon as the
auxiliary main across the meadows is
| completed this temporary supply can be
| connected Herewith and delivered on Ber-
gen Heights, either into the Bergen
| Heights reservoirs, or at a head proposed
as above, to supply the most elevated
portions of Jersey City through a proper
| stand pipe without the use of a pump
ing station On Bergen Heights, accord
ing as one plan or the other shall finally
be selected.
paspectf1llv submitted.
THE EAST JERSEY WATER CO.,
BY CLEMENS EERSCHEL,
E1ngr. & Supt. East Jersey Water Co.
Received and referred to the Committee
of the Whole.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
The Committee on Streets and Sewers