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

maintain the contract flow of fifty MI
lion gallons daily in the driest period
Berkshire Valley water shed, twenty
slA square miles; area of reservoir.
eight hundred acres; capacity of reser-
voiT, four thousand five hundred million
gallons; average depth. seventeen feet,
ten inches on water shed.
Middle Forge water shed, ten and one
tenth square miles; area of reservoir,
one on hundred and sixty acres capacity
OF reservoir, one thousand six hundred
million gallons; average depth, thirty
Beach Glen water shed, twenty-five
reservoir. seven hundred and eighlty-s.x
acres; capacity of reservoir, three thou
sand eight hundred million gallons;
Dixon Pond water shed, three and
fifty-three one hundredths square miles;
area Of reservoir two hundred acres;
fifteen million gallons; depth, twenty
Rockaway Valley water shed, nine and
reservoir, fifteen hundred million gall
Ions; area of reservoir, three hundred
acres; depth, fifteen feet.
CLAIMS THE WHOLE ROCKAWAY.
FrcHn the storage and distributing
reservoir at Montville it is proposed to
carry a line or lines at the city's option
from the water in the reservoir at am
elevation of four hundred feet or fifty
five feet below the natural surface. in
a direct line to Great Notch, thence in
thence by Tonnele avenue, Manhattan
and Summit avenues to High Service
hundred and ten feet.
If two pipes are used the diameter
Will be thirty-nine inches; If one pipe,
a grade of ten feet per mile. win de-
liver fffty-two and itwenty-three one
hundredths milton salons daily: Each
of the thsrty-nine inch pipes will de-
Ions daily. The actual fall in the pro
posed surface in the reservoir at High
Service is two hundred and forty-five
feet.
Our point of intake is the nearest to
Jersey CITY. where a gravity supply can
be delivered at 21O feet elevation at high
The riparian and water rights of the
Cooper Lord estate which we propose 10
to vest m IN Jersey Gy IN ts severay enty
flow of the Rockaway River above
Boonton. These rights are pror, to those
Valley Ria:lroaG and have been ac-
knowiedged by them so to be, and this
fact we are prepared to prove by doeue
mentary evidence and by opinion of
The storage and distributing reservoir
at Montville is of such capacity ana 50
situated that the draught from the main
advantageous periods and avoid draw
ing upon the river during the spring
freshets or after storm dollo"1Rg ae,,ea a
vile or High Service is forever, dis
pensed With ~ The eoo source OF aSll supply IS
H. H. HOLMES,
GEO HOLMES. President.
SUPPLEMENTAL PRoPoStTON ga"
Believing that. it is for the best inter
ests of growing municipality TO own
and control its own works for the sup
ply of water, and also that the same
belief is shared by 9. large majority OF OF
citizens of Jersey City, we make the
foIiowing pro1osftion:---
Whereas During the life Of {, the tbs optii9n i2n
Of Jersey CITY enters into a lawful and
sufficient agreement to take the plant
under said option and fixing the cate
of such taking.
For water delivered at a minimum con-
sumption of twenty. million gallons per per
dav SO that a maximum supply of fifty
million gallons per day can be furnished.
with additional gate Ct intake "a; as Pc pea
specification at the following scheduie
,aaY. :liioO4 gallons