The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-21
-FOUR WATER PLANS
Pumping, Gravity. Pumping
and Gravity and Filtra-
" tion Specifications.
RENT AND PURCHASE OPTIONS
The Street and Water Board
At Last Adopts the Long
Promised Alternate
Schemes.
NOW FOR THE FINANCIERS
Ala Practical Action Is Subject to
Their Approval-The Standard
of Purity.
NOW FOR THE FINANCIERS


The Street and Water Commissioners
met this morning and adopted specifica-
tons for the acquisition of a new water
supply.
There are four distinct specifications
under which bids may be presented by
contractors. THE first provides for
supply by gravitation to Belleville, the
city to still operate the Belleyille pump
ing station and pump the new supply
across the meadows. The second provides
for supply by gravitation, delivering the
water at such head as to do away with
pumping altogether. The third provides
for pumped supply, and the fourth for
a supply by publication or filtration
The specifications were unanimously
adopted, and resolution passed order
ing them advertised for public inspes-
ton for five days in 1.-THE Jersey City
News and Journal"
FINANCE BOARD TO ACT.
This resolution will be forwarded to the
Board of Finance this afternoon, and it
is understood that It win be concurred
in at a meeting of the board to be held
tomorrow afternoon. The specifications
will be presented to ayor Wanser for his
approval on Wednesday.
The following is the full text of one
of the specifications. The salient fea-
lures of the other three, which differ
from the one published in full, are also
given
SPECIFICATION A.
For a new supply of water for the City OF
Jersey City, N. j.
PUMPING SPECIFICATION.
This specification is for supply OF water,
to be delivered by pumping at head OF one
hundred and fifty-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
BIDS RECEIVED,
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City,
by the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers, Will receive proposals for new supply
of water, based on this specification, at the
EtHee Of the Board. corner Of Mercer street
and Jersey avenue Jersey City, n J., on the
25th day of March, 1895, at IL o clock A. Nj.
Bidders must be prepared to state a price
at which supply of water will be furnished
at the rate of twenty million gallons per day,
as the minimum consumption of the city,
and must provide pumping capacity OF
sixty million gallons per day, so that maxi
supply of fifty million gallons per DAY
LENGTH OF CONTRACT
If the city contracts. the contract will run
tract. And the bidder must state prices. at
which water will be pumped and furnished
per million gallons, U. s. Standard. on the
SCALE OF PRICES PER MILLION 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-five and
twenty-five million gallons daily
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons getween twenty-five and
thirty million gallons.
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-fye and
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 each addi-
tional million gallons between forty-five and
fifty million gallons lily.
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-
voirs, pipe lines. land and rights of way and
all appurtenances necessary to fulfil the re-
quirements 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 the water. The city
will pay for said purchase of the plant, etc.,
If made, either in cash bonds, in part
cash and part bonds, as may be agreed upon,
the bonds to bear interest at rate of four
per cent. per annum. to run at least twenty
years.
Bidders must state terms Of payment, which
they willing to accept. it being under
stood that 20 per cent. of the 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 ap-
purtenances arc found to be in every respect
in accordance with the requirements of this
specification, but all payments for water shall
cease on the completion of contract to pur-
chase
PLANT. &C.. MUST BE LOCATED IN NEW
JERSEY.
The pumping plants, reservoirs and all the
appurtenances must be wholly within the
State of New Jersey, and must be built SO
that the 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-
sey City.
RESERVOIRS.
The contractor shall provide Independent
reservoirs and storage basins located within
the State of New Jersey, in such places
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 aud annexed as requisite to the
proposal. The city will require that the total
million gallons daily. The pumps must work
with pressure of not less than one hun
dred and forty pounds to the square inch,
and shall ,e of a modern type of the style
known Triple Expansion High Duty Con-
densing Engines, and shall have a stroke of
not less than sixty inches, nor have a piston
speed of more than two hundred feet per
minute. No individual pump shall be of
larger capacity than twelve million gallons
daily.
BOILERS.
The boilers to be of the very best type and
capable of carrying working pressure of not
less than ten pounds in excess of the initial
steam pressure on the engines.
The pumping plants must be provided with
feed water heaters, econonizers and other
modern appliances that may be necessary to
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
nifty million gallons Of water daily, and also
single supply nains capable OF delivering
fifty million gallons Of water daily, at
head of one hundred and afty,seyen feet
above mean high tide into the seservoir at
1S'i The '' city win therefore require that Al