The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-13

arranges for an .nteraepdng sewage plan
as part of their proposal and the sup
ply offered by the East Jersey Water
Company, which has only so much less
sewerage difficulty as is caused by plac-
ing its intake IN the Roekaway River
above instead OF below Boonton. The
price for the purchase of the works has
been carefully considered by US and We
fnd that the Jersey City Water Com
pany offers go days storage at the rate
OF fifty million gallons per day, in dsf-
nitely stated reservoirs. for S7,a5O,ooo, or
at the rate of ssl,SOO fov storage OF fifty
n:aion gallons and pipes and appur-
tenances therefor.
That the Rockaway and Hudson coa-
pany offers 40 days storage, of which
forty days storage is definitely stated to
be at Montville, which is below Boonton,
and the 100 days storage to be placed
elsewhere among several named reser-
voirs for the sum of s5.65o,Ooo or at the
rate of $4os57 for storage of 5OoOO,OOO gai-
Ions of water ana pipe and appurte-
nances therefor.
That the East Jersey Water Company
offer 100 days storage, being the exact
minimum demanded in the city's s9ecifi-
cations, in reservoirs Indefinitely stated,
for 100000, or at the rate of 100000 for
storage per 50, 100000 gallons of water and
pipe and appurtenances therefor.
Reducing these figures SO as to compare
each company's storage offer based on
the same number of days storage the
following result is reached
one hundred days storage at $4,000
makes East Jersey plan cost s9,ooo,ooo.
One hundred days storage at s4o,s5i
makes Rockaway & Hudson plan cost
$4,os5.7OO.
One hundred days storage at $a1,s0o
makes Jersey City Water Company plan
cost S3.1SO.O0o
The above comparison is on the basis
of East Jersey companys storage of 100
days, which is the smallest offered.
Using the same comparison between the
storage offered by Rockaway & Hudson,
viz: 40 days and following result is
reached
One hundred and forty days storage
at $4o,857 makes Rockaway & Hudson
plan cost s5,e5oOOo
One hundred and forty days storage at
s81 500 makes Jersey City Water Com
pany plan cost s4452,oOo
The comparison shows the relative pur-
chase price for same number Of stored
gallons between the Jersey City Water
Company and the Rockaway & Hudson
Company, without regard to qualify of
water, and by such comparison it is
seen that the Jersey City Water Com
pany offers a plant at a cheaper cost
per storage of like quantity of water
as well as the cheapest price for water
by the gallon.
We examined this matter very careful
ly for the reason that we desired to
ascertain why the Jersey City Water
Company offered its water for a lower
price per million gallons than the Rock
away & Hudson and ask s7,95o,00O for the
water supply as against s5.65O.0OO for
water supply offered by the Rockaway
& Hudson Company, and by such exami-
nation reached the above results from
which it can be seen that water sup
ply for $50 days costs as it should more
money than supply of 14O days, but
when compared together by days stor-
age the Jersey City Water Company is
lowest in price.
This committee has given considerable
amount of attention to the question
whether the extra storage offered by the
Jersey city Water Company, though it
represents more security for the growth
of the city, should be considered, mas
much as the same costs more money to
provide than works with a smaller stor-
| age. We considered this in every way and
concluded that as we .lad asked for
right Of way large enough for additional
| pipes to prOVlQe lOr tIe CAY . 5io" e-A'
and that inasmuch as the water by the
gallon was the cheapest and in quality
the best offered, and as the storage offer
ed on the basis of each 50 million gallons
of water stored represented the smallest
| capital outlay, and as the pipes were de-
| fnitely stated as shown on the plans and
| were to be laid a longer distance than
those shown by other bidders, and as the
1 tunnel through Watching mountain was
of large size and arranged to be ready
| for the city's future needs. we concluded
that the purchase of the water by the
gallon would be, acceptable to the city
and the purchase by the vote of the
people more likely to be made when the
voters knew that they were voting for
the purchase of so extensive storage
system and for water supply removed
as far as possible from the causes which
have brought the Passaic River water
to its present condition. We believe the
conditions on the RocSaway River viii
be a repetition of the experience of the
Passaic as the pollution on the smalle,
volume Of the Rockaway will make it
self known quicker than on the large