The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-19
MOUNTAIN WATER.
Jersey City Company Ex-
Plains It's Plans to the !
City Officials.
PURE LAKES TO BE BOUGHT
Engineer Van Duyne Says There Is
Danger of Pollution in the
Rockaway River.
PURE LAKES TO BE BOUGHT

erS Jones. HardenDerSn oilhpSoH'
-willer and Bailey, Street ana water
, Commissioners Brown. Harding Hooh-
+, er. Kaiser and Patterson, Corporation
! Counsel Blair, City Attorney Weart ana
Joseph A. Dear this morning gave a
hearing to the representatives of the
Jersey City Water Company, which COM
pany is one of the three now competing
for the twenty-five years contract Tor
the furnishing of a new. pure ana
wholesome supply Of water, which the
city proposes making.
Engineer Van Duyne and Messrs.
Beldon and Tilghmann looked after the
interests of the water company En-
gineer Van Duyne acted as spokesman.
There will be no intermingling OF the
waters of the Rockaway River and the
Morris Canal under our plan," he began.
1.-THE Morris Canal is practically a sew
age receptacle for a large portion OF
that country, therefore establishing our
intake at Beach Glen, which has such
an elevation as to make contamination
an absolute impossibility. We are pre-
pared and intend to divert the streams
which are now tributary to the Rocka-
way River and carry them way over
into Beach Glen, and for these waters
we propose storing. I defy anyone 10
say that any purer water can be ac-
quired in any part of the country. we
propose piping the Longwood valley,
and by means of these pip lines we Will
carry our water to the west slope OF
Hibernia. The water is then permitted
to trickle down the sides of the noun
tains, and finally empty into our res
ervoir at Beach Glen.
again we propose diverting water
from Longwood Valley. which, by the
way, with the reservoir we propose es-
tablishing at that point will have a
supply sufficient for Sc days at the
rate of 500 1000 gallons daily. the
country surrounding Longwood Valley
is sparsely populated. There is, I be-
lfeve, only one small town, known as
: Petersburg.
1--WE will dam Upper and Lowe Long
wood and build a pipe line two miles
in length under Green Pond Mountain,
whence it will flow down over the un-
inhabited mountain sides into Eeach
Glen. There is no contamination in the
Longwood Valley. The few houses that
were there are gone. There are not
five inhabited houses in the Valley I'M
til Petersburg is reached, and in that
town there are not more than a dozen
families. If it is necessary we propose
to purchase and control all that prop
erty. We will make dams so that Beach
oieF Pure re LAKES TO BE BOUGHT.
I'VE also propose buying Green Pond,
the wafer Of which you must all ac-
knowledge IS purity itself. Through nat
ural channels We will divert that water
We viii establish a dam at that point
and convert it into a magnificent reser-
voir.
ing and controlling and diY6rtlng It's
waters into Beach Glen. Beach Glen will
constantly, have a supply OF elghty-hVe
Dixon's Lake has a capacity equal to
forty-dve i've, days supply: Our S1rs dam snd at ft this
there We will carry water direct to Jer-
sey City by pipes connecting with the
AT Stony Brook we have plans for a
thirty-ive days supply at the rate of
$4,000, 900 gallons a day. By the diversion
order hold and control a supply equal to
Psi days. Our plan embraces one very
important, feature, We take all our
far above all sources of possible pollution.
Hibernia has been Spoken of as a source
of pollution. That town amounts to moth
ing. There is only one mine there and the
town is dying out rapidly and if it is ne
cessary We propose buying these few
posal under our bid a supply sufficient
for 40 lays at the rate of $4,000, 900 gal
Ions a day IN no other plan n submitted tie
also consider the quality of the water
offered to you.
CAS- to our supplemental proposition we
propose taking the same waters that the
other companies offer you. We can get
water at Old Boonton at a sufficient eIe-
walton to deliver it at High Service by
gravity. The banks of our storage reser-
yoirs are very abrupt and have only, a
little tinfber growth owing to the rocky
nature of the surroundings. This plan is.
of course. cheaper than our other, but
the city must take chances as to con-
tamination, which must also be consid-
cred under the other plans now before
you. The quantity is there, but like the
other companies we must build an in
right, if not, you must look at it in the
light that we are giving you just what
the other companies offer. A reservoir can
be built at Old Boonton, and if the city
prefers this plan We will build it.
Whether it would be satisfactory or not
remains to be seen. We will use mains
under the Verona Mountains.
POLLUTION AT OLD BOONTON.
eff we take water from Old Boonton
we would not be interfering with the
rights of the Morris Canal"
The officials at this point began cues
tioning the company's representatives.
The title to the property at Beach Glen
was spoken of. The company will relieve
the city of all responsibility as to title.
Arrangements rave already been made
tion was called to the claims of the Nor
ris Canal at Dover. Engineer Van Duyne
ElIeu liz ldtL aIlldId man d4iAC 14odS-
land is continually fighting the canal and
twenty-three times already a dam built
by the company has been blown up by
dynamite. Who has done this is not known
but it is a well known fact that Mr..
Hoagland objects to the dam. It was also
brought out that the Morris Canal Com
pany has the first and exclusive lights to
the Rockaway River. A black eye was
given the plans of the East Jersey Water
Company and the Hudson and Rockeway
companies when copies of deeds Were
produced showing that If the water Is
low at Boonton the mills above and below
the plane at the Couper Lord works have
to stop running until the Canal company
has all the water it wants. Joseph A
Dear asked if any overtures had been
made with the Morris Canal Compan
toward effecting an amicable agreement
in relation to the acquisition of water
Mr.. Tighlmann did not care particu.
1arly about answering the question, .but
he finally explained that the matter hac
been discussed and that it was proposed
to adjust the matter by compensation
1T is known that Mr.. Wilbur of the Cana
Company wants to sell and Mr.. Tighl
mann said that the very. worst thing
that could happen would be to cempe
them to buy the canal.
experienced in adjusting the water rights
question. The company's formal propo'
sition. which provides for the acquisition
of pure lake water. embraces a piar
for twenty-qine miles of pipe from
Beach Glen to High Service. It was
suggested that in the case of the com
pany being awarded the contract, thai
it would be advisable to begin worl
at this end and lay a pipe, so that while
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