The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-06
SPECIFICATION A.
(REvISED AND AMENDED)
SPECIFICATION A..
For q new supply of water for the City OF
Jersey CITY. n. J.

Jersey City, N. ].
P SPECIFICATION.
This specification is for a supply OF water,
to be delivered by pumping at a head OF one
hundred and ifty-seven feet above mean aigh
tide into the Belieyille reservoir owned by the
city. the city continuing 10 pump al ls aisn
Service Station for the supply OF water 10
those parts of the city supplied by High ser
BIDS RECEIVED.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City,
by the Board of Stress. and Water Commission
ers, Will receive proposals Coz = new supply
o. water. based on his spscsa2afton. at me
Office of the Board. corner q Aeccer street
and Jersey avenue, Jersey City. y. j., on the
18th day of March. 1885. at II o'clock A. NJ
PRICE. gsaA
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 OF
million gallons per day, SO that a maxi
supply of nifty million gallons per day
ver-ae furnished.
II sidders must also be prepared to state a
Zee at which a supply of water will be fur
nished at the rate of fifty million gallons per
day as the minimum consumption of the city,
and must provide a pumping capacity or
sixty million gallons per day, so that a
minimum supply of fifty million gallons per
case it contracts, to take at least twenty
million gallons per day and only SO much
more as required from time to time.
LENGTH OF CONTRACT. sAh
If the city contracts, the contract will run
for twenty-five years~from the date OF con-
tract. And the bidder must state prices, at
which water will be pumped and furnished
per million gallons, U. s. Standard. on the
following sliding scale.
SCALE OF PRICES PER LILO GAIL
Ions.
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 and
twenty-five million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each aQQl-
tional million gallons between twenty-five and
thirty million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between thirty and
thirty-fve million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between thirty-hve and
forty million gallons daily.
A price per million. gallons for each addi-
tionaI million gallons between forty and forty
five million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between forty-five and
fifty million gallons daily.
OPTION ON 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-
and all appurtenances and
necessary to fulfill the requirements
of this specification to the extent
ever, at any time within twenty years from
the date OF delivery of water. The city
will pay 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.
Bidders must also state the price at which
the city can buy and own in severalty, the
pumping plant, the water supply, water rights.
storage reservoirs, pipe lines, lands and rights
of way and all appurtenances and easements
necessary to fulfill the requirements of this
specification with a minimum supply Of fifty
million gallons of water daily forever, and
to have the sole and exclusive ownership
thereto her sun and to to any a9sv e mif1ion ae eaIion saio Der m day
at any time within twenty years from the
date of delivery of water. The city will pay
for said purchase of the plant and so forth,
either in cash or bonds. or in part cash and
part bonds. at the option of the city, the bonds
to. bear interest at a rate Of four per cent.
per annum and to run at least twenty years.
TERMS OF PAYMENT.
Bidders must state terms of payment, which
they are willing to accept. it being understood
that a bond equal to ten per cent. of the
cost agreed upon to be paid, is to be furnished
by the contractor to the city, for its protec-
ton. (the security to be subject to approval
according to law for the term of Ave years
from date of purchase of plant; that said water
supply, plant and appurtenances shall be In
menfs of this specification, but all payments
for water shall cease on the completion OF con-
tract to purchase. -
JERSEY.
The pumping plants, reservoirs and all the
appurtenances must be wholly within the
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that the same can be used exclusively for
Jersey City, and the contractor shall furnish
no water to any consumer Of Jersey City
water, or to any other consumer except Jer-
RESERVOIRS.
The contractor shall prove to the satisfaction
of the city that the pumping capacity Of the
stream, at the place where the pumping Is
done. will, without independent reservoirs, fur
nish a supply by pumping, equal to fifty mil
Lion gallons per day at all seasons of the year;
or shall show in his plan, independent reser-
voirs and storage basins, located within the
state Of New Jersey, in such places as to re-
ceive and be capable of storing. in addition to
the dow Of the stream where the pumping is
done fthe capacity of which stream must be
DESIGNATED in the proposaD, q water supply for
sixty DAYS delivery hereunder at the rate
Of dfty million gallons per day, at all seasons
of the year.
PUMPS.
All appliances must be Of approved patterns
and be specifically designated In the plans
and drawings, which must be fnr-
nicbed and annexed, as a requisite to the
nroposal. The city win require that the total
canacitv of pumps and boilers shall be sixty
mjllion gallons daily. The pumps must work
with a pressure Of not less than one hun
dred and forty pounds to the square men,
and shall be Of a modern type OF the style
known as Triple Expansion High Duty Con-
a-n-t,- E4Hfuesys and shall have g stroke OF