The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-20
ALL HAVE GHB BEST PLAN
City Authorities Give More
Hearings on the Water
Question to Would-be
Bidders.

Mayor y anser and all the CITY ofncials
who have to act upon the water Ques-
ton and pass up1n contract. should
one ne made hs .l.e Street an7 Water
Board. listened to long explanation of
Ges.e 3. Irman's informal proposition
in the Mayors private Office IN the City
Hall yesterday afternoon. The Mayors
announcement that it would be capital
i6ea for the city to build It's own plant
has met with favor generally. Contract
ors. who claim to own nearly all CT the
earth, and all the water on that part
of it known as New Jersey, don't take
kindly to His Honor's stand However.
more is expected to come of t than
is thought now. Water companies. the
members of which want to fasten
twenty-five-year contract on the city,
and still retain the ownership OF the
plant. at the expiration of such con-
tract, are particularly wofrieSa; Ssr - bear
Mr. George B. Inman, who represents
a body of English capitalists, they were
somewhat surprised to md hlln tSn %itnouI o0'
set, very frankly explained that his propo-
s.tion had been before the city curing
the term of Mayor Cieyeland. He said
it was the same old plan (eontendins.
naturally, that it was the. best. and, n
fact, only one for the city to adopt.
with the same old capitalists behind hln.,
He declared that. notwithstanding What
anyone said, the East Jersey Water Com
pany enjoyed rights n the RockaWay
watershed and also the Ramapo shed
that could not be ignored. Those rights
the company enjoys, he asserted, through
the Society for Useful Manufactures.
Mr.. Innlan's plan is different from any
he proposes gathering his water IN Sus-
sex County from sources on which no
one has aey claim By obtaining his
gppdy svpd seraes 'G aoe
establishing an intake ut Culver's Lake
which has a normal storage capacity
of 1Oo,QCOooO gallons, The water OF Cu;>
though it is fed to an extent by a pro
ductfve watershed. He proposes build
ing a dam at the lower. end of the lake
to such height that the wata. will be
raised twelve feet. The dam will IN
crease the size of the lake greatly and
VIII permit the storage of supply suf-
ficient to meet the demands of this city
for $50 days on the basis of q consump
tion of 100000 gallons daily. The lake
would be four miles long and about one
mile and a half wide.
The drainage area is about 1,600 acres.
LONG PONDS CAPABILITIES
He next calculates on going westerly
to what is known as Long Pond BY
means OF sanal ne concentrates Ias
Culver's Lake. He will then have an ad-
ditional supply reservoir one-half mile
long and about one mile wide. The pond
in parts IS at least forty feet. and he
calculates on being able to draw on it
at all seasons of the year to the depth
goes west and north and takes in fifteen
smaller ponds, none of which are as
large as Long Pond. The waters of these
are also to be brught It service by means
Of canals. He proposes utilizing Sparta
Lake also.
Mr.. Inman's attention was called to the
fact that the municipality of Newton
claims rights in Sparta Lake He replied
that the claim was a legitimate one SO
far. as Newton has acquired the right to
draw on it for 100000 gallons daily.
was using about 100000 gallons day.
He declared that Sparta Lake was the
only one embraced in his plan that he
could not give Jersey City exclusive
rights IN
At Morris Lake. he proposes building
store water so that Is, 900, coo gallons daily
would be given this city when desired,
and he contended, as did Engineer Yer
ceed 5o,ooo,oOo ' gallons daily if % the pres
ent increase in consumption continued.
Leaving his various sources of supply,
mountains to the Town OF Hibernia
Three tunnels are provided, and through
each one will run d Pinch water pipe.
In the. tunnels alone. ~ miles of pipe
~
because his intake is at such an eleva-
ton that It would be unwise to put the
pressure on one pipe. From Hihernia
52-nch pipe. The intake OF Mr.. Inman's
plan IS $50 feet above sea level, and he
declared that mechanical devices would
sure at High Service. "My plan" said
Mr.. Inman, sis practically one to give
you spring water. and pollution is i'm
Ions daily as well as 25, ,oo0, ,Ooo,'' %
He claimed that by pumping from
Pawln's NH he could get SO,OOO,oO0 gal
Ions daily.
MORRIS LAKES ELEVATION.
Morris Lake has en- elevation of 1000
feet above sea level and Culver's $50 feet.
Mr.. Inman's, plan embraces the laying
only lawsuit that he would encounter
with his plan would be. he asserted,
with the owners of a mill at Branch
vile.
plant Would @a cost t bu but sala e has ls
resorted to the sinking fund plan adopted
instance. he wants bonds bearing i've
per cent; Interest; That means 100000
interest to be paid every year He asks
demands that the interest be paid on
the bonds. and also that he be paid for
the water supplied for. q period of ten
years. Then ne is wiling that the city
shall begin depositing in sinking fund
all water moneys, except what goes to
pay the interest on the $1,000 000 ard in
twenty-five years he claims the city will
have paid in yearly installments a SUI
acient sum to own the plant free and
clear.
When asked about his ability to give
a temporary supply, he declared that if
ne was awarded a contract he would be
able to buy the East Jersey Water Gem
pany's surplus water and deliver a suf-
fic.ent temporary supply in six or nine
months.
He was asked if he would take the
surplus flow OF the East Jerseys New
ark supply.
sad Newark is in a nice box, and
Standard Oil Company follow the Newark
above It's intake. Should one of those
pipes break. what becomes of Newark?
They are likely to burst at any moment,
and should oil get into Newark's pipe,
away goes her supply. The only way to
get oil out of a water pipe is to burn
t out. The same Questionable feature
presents itself in the proposed establish
nent of an intake at Great Falls.
Should one of the Standard Oil Com
ce.ye the oil flow of 10000 gallons hourly
and It would be at least three hours be-
fore the flow could be turned off. With
co COO gallons of oil in an intake Jersey
City would have predicament to deal
with that would end disastrously."
These statements startled the city Of
ficials, but no one contradicted or dis
puted them
In conclusion, Mr. Innan explained that
his only bargain with the English caD.-
talists was that in case he secured g.
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