The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-29
Dated Jersey City, N. J.. January
%, 1896.
SPECIFICATION
GEO. T. BOUTON,
20, 1886,

SPECIFICATION A
For a new supply of water for the City OF
Jersey City, N. ].
PUMPING SPECIFICATION.
This specification is for a supply OF water
to be delivered by pumping at a head OF one
hundred and ffty-seven feet above mean high
tide into the Belleville reservoir owned by the
city. the city continuing to pump at Its High
Service Station for the supply of water to
those parts of the city supplied by High Ser
vice Station.
BIDS RECEIVED.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City,
by the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers, will receive proposals for a new supply
of water, based on this specification, at the
office of the Board, corner Of Mercer street
and Jersey avenue, Jersey Cfty,~N. j., on the
18th day of March, 1895, at II o'clock A. M.
PRICE.
Bidders must be prepared to state a price
at which a supply OF water will be furnished
at the rate of twenty million gallons per day,
as the minimum Of the city,
and must provide a pumping capacity or
sixty million gallons per day, SO that a maxi
mum supply of fifty million gallons per day
LENGTH OF CONTRACT.
If the city contracts, the contract Will run
for twenty-five years from the date Of con-
which water will be pumped and furnished
per million gallons, U. s.. Standard. on the
following sliding scale.
SCALE OF PRICES PER MILLION GAL
A price per million gallons for the first
twenty million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between twenty ana
twenty-five million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between twenty-five and
thirty million gallons. =
A price per million gallons Tor eacn aodl-
tional million gallons between thirty and
thirty-fve million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each add,
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forty million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
| tional million gallons between forty and forty
| five million gallons daily.
| A price per million gallons for eacn aadl-
tional million gallons between forty-fve and
| fifty million gallons daily.
OPTION OF Plant, ETC.
| Bidders must also state the price at which
| the city can buy and own the pumping plant,
the water supply, water rights, storage reser-
voirs, pipe lines, land and rights OF way ana
| all appurtenances necessary to fulfil the re-
| ouirements of this specification to the extent
| Of fifty million gallons of water daily for
| ever, at any time within twenty years from
the date of delivery of water. The city
| will paw for said purchase of the plant, etc,
if made, either in cash or bonds, or in part
| cash and part bonds, as may be agreed upon,
the bonds to bear interest at a rate OF four
| per cent. per annum, to run at least twenty
years. y
Bidders must state terms of payment, which
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stood that 20 per cent. of the cost agreed
upon to be paid is to be retained by the
| city for the term of five years from date OF
purchase of plant for the protection of the
city, that said water supply, plant and APP
purtenances are found to be in every respect
in accordance with the requirements OF THIS
specification, but all payments Tor water snal
cease on the completion OF contract to pur-
chase.
PLANT, sc. MUST BE LOCATED IN NEW
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appurtenances must be wholly within the
State Of New Jersey, and must be built sc
that the same can be used exclusively fol-
| Jersey City, and the contractor shall furnish
no water to any consumer OF Jersey CITY
water, or to any other consumer except Jer-
sey City.
The contractor Shall provide independent
reservoirs and storage basins located within
the State of New Jersey, in such places as
to receive, and be capable of storing, a water
supply for sixty days delivery hereunder,
at the rate of fifty million gallons per day.
PUMPS.
All appliances must be of approved patterns
and be specifically designated in the plans
drawings and details, which must be fur
niShed and annexed, as a requisite to tbs
proposal. The city will require that the tota
capacity of pumps and boilers shall be sixty
| million gallons daily. The pumps must work
with a pressure of not less than one hun
dred and forty pounds to the square inch
and shall be of a modern type of the style
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| densing Engines, and shall have a stroke OF
not less than sixty inches, nor have a piston
speed of more than two hundred feet pei
minute. No individual pump shall be of q
larger capacity than twelve million gallons
daily.
BOILERS.
The boilers to be Of the very best type, and
capable of carrying q working pressure of not
less than ten pounds in excess of the initia
| steam pressure on the engines.
The pumping plants must be provided with
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modern appliances that may be necessary te
make the pumping station equal to the best
American practice.
MAINS-Two SYSTEMS.
The city will require that all plans shall
show two supply mains of equal capacity,
which together shall be capable of delivering
fifty million gallons of water daily. and also
a single supply main capable of delivering
fifty million gallons of water daily, at g
head of one hundred and ffty-seven feet
above mean high tide into the reservoir al
Belleville.
The city will therefore require that al
plans shall show two systems of supply
mains; one system shall show two supply
mains of equal capacity, which together shall
be capable of delivering fifty million gallons
per day, and an additional gate connected
with the intake so that a supply main car
be added capable of delivering an additions
fifty million gallons daily. The other sys-
tenn shall show one main capable of deliver
ing fifty million gallons per day, and an ad-
ditional gate at the intake so that an add,
tional supply main can be added capable OF
delivering another fifty million gallons pei
day; both systems to deliver the water at g
head Of one hundred and ffty-seven feet
above mean high tide into the reservoir al
Belleville.
RIGHT OF WAY AND SEPARATE EST.
ATE
In either case the contractor shall provide
a right of way for the pipe lines at least
twenty feet in width; and in his bid shall sub.
NIT separate estimates as to the cost OF
each system, and the cost per million gallons
according to the scale referred to before, or
MAIN FROM BELLEvILLE TO HIGH
SERVICE.
The plans shall also show an auxiliary mair
Of rs inches inside diameter to connect the
Belleyille reservoir with High Service reser