The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07

| less than 210 feet
| While the whole supply of water could
| be utilized at that head it is the inten-
| ton of the company to bring a mechani-
| cal device into play by which suffl-
! cient quantity for stand pipe service
| may be delivered simultaneously with
| the balance flowing into the reservoirs,
thus insuring uniform pressure in the
stand pipe at all times during the deliv-
cry of water and at the same time de-
| livering the water for the lower levels
of the city so as not to strain the pres
ent distributing system or the city In
addition to the intake at Beach Glen,
from which the water will be delivered
as just described. the company's plan
provides for two other intakes. They
are not necessary. but are to be built so
as to insure perfect protection for the
city. This is another feature which goes
to make the plan by far the most perfect
one from an engineering point of view
ever offered the city. Engineers admit
this.
The additional intakes referred to will
be located at Dixons Lake and Stony
Brook They will be connected with the
main intake at Beach Glen. Aside from
| this connection they will also connect
low Beach Glen. Should anything hap
pen at Beach Glen the gates at that
point are merely closed and the Stony
Brook and Dixon's Pond reservoirs con-
tinue the supply to this city. This is
another one of the splendid features of
this perfect plan. 1t is complete in every
detail no matter how minute. a
THE WATCHUNG TUNNEL.
One of the most remarkable features
| of the company's plan is the tunnel to
| be built under the Watching Mountain,
| This tunnel will cost small fortune
| in itself Other companies avoided it.
The Jersey City Company's engineers
| said it would make a better plan and
| the tunnel is to be built. 1t will be
| three and one-haf miles in length, with
| an inside diameter of six feet. This
| tunnel shortens the route over all other
| companies at least three miles,the other
| companies not proposing tunnel pc
| cause of the great expense attached 10
| it's construction. A tunnel with an IN
| side diameter of six feet is an enormous
| tunnel. 1t will be lined with brick where
| it is found necessary to line 1t. Some
| people have the very wrong impression
| that the pipe line extends through the
| tunnel 1t does not. The pipe ends at
| the mouth of the tunnel, and the water
| freed from the pipe goes splashlng ana
| rushing through that great mole III the
mountain for three miles.
| It will enter the pipe at the end of the
tunnel full of new life and with almost
| the same great pressure that it entered
the pipes at Beach Glen. The construe-
/ ton of the tunnel shows that the COM
MANY SHARED no expense in making its
| plant perfect in every particular. 1t
| will carry 1905 900 gallons daily, which
| is twice the amount of water called Tor
| by the city in it's specifications. 1t IS
| large enough to supply all possible de-
mands for the future.
ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT PIPES
The pipe lines it is admitted by engl-
| neers are so located as to permit of econ
| omica.l and efficient operation. The main
| intake of the company at Beach Glen
will cover an area of about $50 acres and
| will have capacity of 4,235, 777.Oo0 gal
| Ions of water or more than eighty days
supply at the great rate consumption or
| 50, 600 coo gallons daily. 1t will have an
elevation at the flow line of about $40
feet above mean high tide. Naturally
| tributary to the reservoir are Split Rock
Lake. Denmark Lake. Hoagland Lake,
| and numerous small streams. 1t is pro-
j posed also by an intercepting tunnel
| through Green Mountain. which will be
1 three miles in length, to make the waters
of Green Lake and the upper Longwood
water sheds also tributary to Beach Glen.
| Property owners would only have to
see these lakes to become thoroughly
| convinced that the city officials have
| made a wise selection and to become
satisfied also that the city is to procure
as pure water as it is possible to find.
Thousands of people have admired
Lake Hopatcong and thousands have
| raved over the beauties of Budd's Lake.
| It is a broad assertion, but true one,
| that neither of the lakes mentioned can
compare in any particular with Green
| Lake. A more beautiful body of water
| cannot be imagined. 1t attained its
| name from the color of the water. Tt
is walled in by mountains and is sup
| piled by millions of little springs that
| bubble UP between the rocks, and is fed
during the rainy season from the acres
1 of wild mountainous country that sur
| round it.
1t is many miles from any town, and
| not house or farm can be seen near 1t.
! To reach it is one of those almost i'm
| possible things. 1t is pleasant to ride
| over miles OF rough mountain roads oc-
casionally. but for regular diet 1t
| would scarcely be relshed.
POLLUTION IMPOSSIBLE.
The pollution. of that body OF water Is IS
the the pollution Of the other streams that
are tributary, to the Beach Glen .reser-
geasn Te een is intake T f e. 60paey an
ef sfevafion; assa Stony Stony Bfook @ intaEe feet
elevation; Stony Brook derives It's name
from the bed of the stream. 1t is stony
and water as it splashes over them en- is Is
the precautionary intake is to be estab-
lished is in a beautiful glen. surrounc-
ed by rocky hills and SO rugged as TO
make hesitation impossible.
takes are Hoagland Lake. with an ele-
| vation of 7A0 feet; Split Rock Lake. Sic
feet elevation; Denmark Lake, Sl6 feet,
Longwood Valley which is to be converted asa rte
Green Lake .O45 feet. These lakes and
| brooks, it will be seen, are at far great
| er elevation than the intakes and are
further away in the mountains SO SIT.
uated that driving to them is an almost
drainage area of IS square miles, and an
every drop of water on this Unparalleled IN
shed is made tributary to the intakes
and reservoirs. The district is !. noun no n
| population can never exist.
NO FACTORIES OR VILLAGES.
| There are no factories or villages soi
any size from which pollution can come
or, such as endangsr the 11 plans Ans OF tae ae
exist in the great shed offered are con I
stantly decreasing, because the land Is
wild and. unproductiye covered with