The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-02
AMouNT. AsKEp FOR PLANT


For the plant, water supply, water
lands and rights Of way, and all appur-
tenances ter and easements necessary. to full
fill the requirements of this specification
to the extent of fifty millions of gallons
of water daily forever, which purchase
6e afsr b at any any e within IF Wr
With two supply mains, the sum of s., ,943,-.
600: with one supply main, the sum of
$3.50, ,000
We are willing to accept payment as
follows, in case purchase is made:-.In
bonds of Jersey City running. not less
cent. interest, principal and interest pay
able in gold coin or it's equivalent in
other legal tender. The city having the
right to agree with bidder as to whether
payment. Shall be all cash or bonds, or
part cash and part bonds.
For water delivered according to spe-
citlcatiOnS, at the rate of fifty million
gallons per day as the minimum supply.
the city If it contracts. to have the right
to all the water stored in the plant and
capable of delivery through the mains
,gGapahle es delivering together fifsy milf
ion gallons per day, with the additional
gate at intake as per specification, at the
rate Of per cent interest per annum on
81, ,50a,0C0 which interest payment shall
be in lieu of all other charges for such
daily use and supply water. The above
capital sum and COMPUTED interest
thereon is subject to reduction and re-
bate upon acceptance of option to pur-
chase.
Tor water delivered according to spe-
cification, at. the rate of fifty million
gallons per day as the minimum supply
the city, if it contracts, to have the right
to all the water stored in the plant, and
capable of delivery through the main
using one supply, main capable of de
with. additional gate at intake as per
specification, at the rate of per cent
interest per annurn on S7000,000, which in
terest payment shall be in lieu of all
other charges for such daily use and
supply of water.
For the plant, water supply, water
lands and right of way and all appur-
tenances and easements necessary to
fulfill the requirements of the specifi-
cat,,on with minimum supply of fifty
million gallons per day forever, and to
have the sole and exclusive ownership
thereto, which purchase can be made at
first delivery of water, and thereafter
at any time during the remainder of
With two supply mains the sum of
Of S. $50 oOo pp,' ' '''' 7''i-
We are willing to accept payment in
sey CITY running for not less than
twenty years and drawing 4 per cent
interest.
The water to be furnished shall be Of
the following standard, which standard
shall be maintained during the con-
tract, is the same as required by the
SOURCE OF TIE CoMPANY's
We propose to take. the water from
the, Rocloaway River at the head of the
water power of the ]. Cooper Lord es-
tate at Boonton,. erecting a masonry
dam at an elevation above tide water
of something over 4S5 feet. The Rock
away Valley, above the intake proposed
has a drainage area of 118 square miles
80 per cent Of which is freshet,. and is
capable of affording a supply of 9S 000,-
600 salons per day tba with drsught Of
flow of streams shows that the ma
flow Of the Roekawo y at the I'M
per day for all but the two driest
months, in. the, average year. The point
Of intake is is above eeo the village OF Boon
tamination from the possible sewage
of that town. We, propose to provide for
Dover f5tS arid and Rockaway, the. only two
points of possible danger from pollu-
ton now existing above, the point of in
| laying a vitrified pipe sewer through
the Rockaway Valley, from these points
to discharge below our intake. We
are also prepared to dispose of any posi-
sewage from Port Oran or Hibernia by
connection with this nlain.
| Such ISOLATED cases of nu3sances likely
| ITO contaminate the river will be cor
rected by removal outside the limit of
| possible contamination
AS to any possible cOntan1lnat ton by
| the venting of the lockage water from
| the guard locks of the Morris Canal,
we propose to obviate this by a device
which shall carry the lockage waters
across the river in to the guard locks on
| the other side.
We propose to carry line of pipe
from our intake to the gorge about a
mile north of Montville and about three
miles east of our intake al Boonton. The
surface elevation of the water in this
| reservoir will be 455 feet or thirty feet
below the head of the dam at the intake
| The depth of the water in the intake
will be fifty feet, and at the dam will
| exceed sixty feet The dam will have a
llength of 1900 feet. The storage capa-
| city will be upwards of 1000 million gall
| Ions, and will furnish a supply above the
1 level of the draught, of over forty days.
| This reservoir will have local drainage
all of about twenty-sever square miles
of rough mountain land. Thirteen miles
| of this local water shed VIII furnish in
itself six hundred and eleven million gall
| ions, and the reservoir as situated is
capable of receiving the surplus flow
of the whole Rockaway Valley water
shed of 118 square miles, which will fill
it in very few days In the rainy season.
We also propose, in addition to the
storage reservoir at Montville, to pro-
vide storage IN the upper valley of the
Rockaway utilizing one or more of the
sites specified In order to secure stor-
aga of five thousand million gallons. as
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