The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-01
Dated Jersey City, N. j.. January
%, 1895.
SPECIFICATION A.

SPECIFICATION A.
FOR a new supply of water for the City of
Jersey City, N. j.
PUMPING SPECIFICATION.
This specification is for a supply of water,
to be delivered by pumping at a head OF one
hundred and ffty-seven feet above mean hish
tide into the Belleville reservoir owned by the
city, the city continuing to pump at ITS tigh
Service Station for the supply of water 10
those parts of the city supplied by High ser
vice Station.
BIDS RECEIVED.
The Mayor and Aldermen OF Jersey CITY
by the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers, will receive proposals for a new supply
of water, based on this specification, at the
office 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.
PRICE.
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 consumption of the city,
and must provide a pumping capacity OF
sixty million gallons per day, so that a maxi
mum supply of fifty million gallons per DAY
LENGTH OF CONTRACT.
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 galloi:s, U. S. Standard, on the
following sliding scale.
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 and
twenty-five million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between twenty-five ana
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-five 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-
tiopal million gallons between forty-hve and
fifty million gallons daily.
OPTION ON PLANT, ETC.
Bidders mustl 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 water. The city
will pay for said purchase of the plant, ete.,
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.
TERMS OF PAYMENT.
Bidders must state terms of payment, which
they are willing to accept, it being under
stood that 20 per cent. OF the COST 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-
purrenances are 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
~,,.r+ ta xvhollr WITHIN tf1n
state of New Jersey, and must be built so
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-
sey City.
The contractor Shall provide Independent
reservoirs and storage basins located within
the State of New Jersey. in such places as
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,
drawing and details, which must be fur
| nished and annexed, as a requisite to the
proposal. The city Will require that the total
capacity of pumps and boilers shall be sixty
| million gallons daily. The pumps must work
with a pressure Of not less than one hun
cred and forty pounds to the square inch,
and shall be of a modern type of the style
known as 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 a
larger capacity than twelve million gallons
daily.
The boilers to be of the very best type, and
capable of carrying a 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, e~conomizers and other
modern appliances that may be necessary to
make the pumping station equal to the best
American practice.
MAINS-TwoS SYSTEMS.
The city will require that all plans shall
show two supply mains of equal capacity,
which together shall be capable of delivering
fifty million gallons of water daily, and also
a single supply main capable of delivering
fifty million gallons of water daily, at a
head of one hundred and ffty-seven feet
above mean high tide into the reservoir at
BelIeville.
The city will therefore require that all
plans shall show two systems of supply
mains; one system shall show two supply
mains of equal capacity, which together shall
be capable of delivering fifty million gallons
per day, and an additional gate connected
with the intake so that a supply main can
be added capable of delivering an additional
fifty million gallons daily. The other sys-
TEN shall show one main capable of deliver
ing fifty million gallons per day, and an ad-
ditional gate at the intake SO that an addi-
tional supply main can be added capable of
delivering another fifty million gallons per
day: both systems to deliver the water at a
head Of one hundred and ffty-seven feet
above mean high tide into the reservoir at
Belleville.
RIGHT OF WAY N SEPARATE ESTI-
MATES.
In either case the contractor shall provide
a right of way for the pipe lines at least
twenty feet in width; and in his bid shall sub
nit separate estimates as to the cost Of
each system, and the cost per million gallons,
according to the scale referred to before, on
MAIN From sBELLEvILLE 10 HIGH
The plans shall also show an auxiliary main
of xSs inches Inside diameter to connect ths