The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-15
BOARD OF STREET AND WATER
COMMISSIONERS
Official Proceedings.)
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its corporate. seal to be hereto affixed
and attested by its Secretary and these
presents to be signed by its President,
the twenty-eighth day of June, A. D..
HARRY H. HOLMES. President.
The R~ockaway and Hudson Company,
by Harry H.. Holmes. President.
(SeaD
Attest
Seorgs Holmes. Secretary:
Montgomery street Jersey City. N. J.
NOTE-Each bidder having signed a
formal bid can. under q heading to be
as many supplemental propositions and
attach them to their bids as they may
desire; in which they can offer for the
supply and on such terms, conditions
and plans as the bidder may propose,
must must be annexed to the formal nopG b.d and
be inserted in the same envelope and
handed to the Clerk at the same time
for in formal bid; following such sup
Elemental proposition, bidder making
same must sign name n full and post
If an Individual bid for any corpora
ton, proper authority to make such
supplemental proposition must accom-
well as the formal proposal.
the R0 slESSsss : s1A At ' tRs Ssad Of ,i ths
dam at an elevation above tide of some
thing over 4S5 feet. The Rockaway VAL
drainage area of 18 square miles, so per
cent, of which is forest and is capable
Of affording a supply of g. ooo, goo million
Il inches of water shed.
t taplf d 95 fio of tS Of R RtEaaaaa sh at the ti Intake nss
%nrnposed. exoeeds 7s,0Ao.0 900 gallons per
day for all but the two driest months
in the average year.
The point Of Intake is above the village
of Boonton and free from any danger of
contamination from the possible sewage
for the disposal of the possible sewage
of Dover and Rockaway, the only two
points of possible danger from pollution
take in the watershed, by preferably
laying a vitrified pipe sewer through the
Valley of the Rockaway RIVER from
these points to a discharge below our
Should It be deemed necessary and adj
visable we are also prepared. to dispose
Dram and Hibernia by connection with
this main.
sSuch isolated cases of nuisances likely
to conta inmate the river water, VII be
corrected by removal outside the limit
of possible contamination or connected
AS to any possible contamination by
the venting of the lockage waters from
the guard locks of the Morris. Canal,
We propose TO ODVlaIG tfilS SIiOQlu II -pC
deemed advisable and necessary in order
70 maintain the purity of the river by a
device which shall. carry the lockage
From the intake as above located we
propose to carry a line Of pipe; either
the option of the city, to a combined
storage and distributing reservoir to be
located near the ayine or goage "a ap qha
Delaware and ~Lackawanna Railroad
and about three miles northeast of our
intake at Boonton.
this reservoir at Montville will be up
proSimately 455 feet or 80 feet below the
head OF the dam at intake.
The depth of water in the reservoir
VIII average 50 feet and at the dam will
exceed 60 feet. The dam will have a
een : q Of s0 this reservoir res viii be up.
wards of 1000 million gallons, and will
errnish a supply above. the level OF the
yoir will have a local drainage. area Of
about 2 ITO SQUARE miles of rough
mountain land. Thirteen inches of this
Gil million gallons, and the reservoir as
situated is capable of receiving the sur
plus flow of the. whole R~ockaway YAH
lev water shed Of l18 square miles, which
will fill it in 2 very few days IN the
tior to the storage reservoir at Mont,
The upper valley of the Rockaway, shed,
utilizing one or more of the sites herein
specified and as shown upon pc o 1ae map "a s o.
cure storage or 5000 million gallons, as
required by your specification, and as
mahh m0 the as t naas flow ps n of g million
gallons per day in the dryest period.
berkshire Valley'-water shed, g
serare capacity ml a a IF reservoir e 1900 million
gallons; ten inches or he water shed;
average depth, II feet.
niles: area of reservoir, 100 acres; ca
oacity of reservoir, 1900 million gallons;
8 inches on water shed; average depth,
't Peach Clearwater shed. 2a.1 square
miles; area of reservoir. 7s6. acres: ca
pacity, of reservoir, S,sM million ga daD1S'
e f feshes On water sAsu' As'iAIs 'eD'-l
"Dixon Pond''-water shed, 3.5S square
pacity of reservoir. s15 million gallons;
10 inches on water shed; average depth,
over 20 feet. 40
square miles; capacity of reservoir, 1,5o0
million gallons; area of reservoir, 3W
acres: average depth Of water, Z fee 1ss-
arvoir at Montviile we propose to carry
a pipe line either double OF single, at the
-ity's option, drawing from the water
about 400 feet, or IS feet below the nor
NAL surface in the most direct line to
Great Notch sa thence II in l almost a ad dlrese
and County Road. Jersey City: thence
by Tonnele. Manhattan and Summit ave-
ulies to the High Service Reservoir, de-
tfverinr the water at a head of 210 feet.
If one pipe is used. the diameter will be
about 81 inches; if two pipes are used,
the diameter of each will be 80 inches:
The 81 inch pipe running at a grade OF
10 feet per mile. will deliver 81 and 23-100
million gallons of water per day. Each
Of the 39-inch pipes VIII deliver about q
million gallons per day at the same head.
The actual fall between the proposed
surface of the water in theh reservoir
at Montville and the delivery at High
Service is 245 feet. The actual hydraulic
Grade line will have 9 fall of over 10
proposed is therefore somewhat in ex-
cess of the requirements. This has been
done in order to provide for the re-
mote contingency of the necessity
of drawing from the Roonton
reservoir down to the draught line. in
which case the loss in delivery at the
head Of 210 feet in the pipes proposed
would be about 5 per cent.
Pine will be of rivete1 gfeel of the best
quality, make and workmanship.
The steel shall be of the class termed
soft" and shall be made by the Open
Hearth process. 1t shall contain not
more than 0.05 per cent. PHOSPHORUS and
0.06 per cent. sulphur and so per cent.
Manganese.
Tensile test specimens to be s inches
long and III inches wide between measur-
fnv points.
Tensile strength to be between the l:m-
its of $4,000 and $1,000 peands per square
inch.
Elastic limit to be not less than g, 600
pounds per square inch Working strain
under no circumstance shall exceed
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