The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-05
SPECIFICATION B.
REVISED AND AMENDED.
gPECIFYCATION B..
For a New Water Supply for the City

|N REVISED AND AMENDED.
SPECIFICATION B..
For a New Water Supply for the City OF
Jersey City, N. j..
PUMPING N GRAVITY SUPPLY.
This specification is for a supply OF water
by gravity, at a head of 157 feet above mean
high tide. into the Belleville Reservoir, which
delivery will provide for a supply of water
by gravity from all parts of Jersey City at
present supplied by gravity, the city continue
ing to pump at its High Service Station Tor
the supply Of water 10 those parts OF the
city supplied by High Service Station.
BIDS RECEIVED.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City, by
the Board of Street and Water Commissioners
will receive proposals for a new supply OF
water, based on this specification. at the office
IF the Board, corner of Mercer street and
Jersey avenue, Jersey City, on the Twenty
fifth day of March. 1895. at eleven o'clock
PRICE PER MILLION GALLONS MAXI
U AND MINIMUM SUPPLY.
Bidders must be prepared to state a price
for a supply equal to or exceeding fifty mil
lion gallons per day. as hereinafter provid-
to take at least twenty million gallons per
day. If the City contracts, the contract Will
run for twenty-five years from date of
contract, and the bidders must state prices
for water per million gallons, United States
standard, on the following sliding scale:-
SCALE OF PRICES PER MILLION GAL
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 and
thirty million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between thirty and
thirty-ive million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between thirty-ive and
forty million gallons daily. ~
A price per million gallons each addi-
tional million gallons between and forty
five million gallons daily.
A price per million gallons tor each addi-
tional million gallons between forty-ive and
fifty million gallons daily.
OPTION ON PLANT.
Bidders must also state the price at which
the city can buy and own the plant, the water
supply, water rights, storage reservoirs, pipe
lines, lands and rights of way, and all appur-
tenances and easements necessary to
fulfill the requirements of this speci-
~ication. to the extent of fifty million gal
Ions of water daily forever, at any time
within twenty years from the date of delivery
Of water. The city will pay for said purchase
of the plant, ETC., 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
the rate of four per cent. per annum, to run
at least twenty years.
Bidders must also state the price at which
the City can buy and own in severalty the
water supply, water rights, storage reservoirs,
pipe lines, lands and rights of way, and all
appurtenances and easements necessary to full
fill the requirements of this specification.
with a minimum supply of fifty million gal
Ions of water daily forever, and to have the
sole and exclusive ownership thereto, and to
any excess above said minimum supply of
fifty million gallons per day at any time
within twenty years from the date of deliy-
cry of water. The City will pay for said
purchase of the plant. and so forth, if made,
either in cash or bonds or in part cash and
part bonds at the option of the City. The
bonds to bear interest at the rate of four
per cent. per annum, and 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 a bond equal to ten per cent. of
the cost agreed upon to be paid is to be fur
nished by the contractor to the city, for it's
protection (the security to be subject to APP
proval according to law), for the term of five
years from the date of purchase of plant; that
said water supply, plant and appurtenances
shall be in every respect in accord
ance with the requirements az this specification;
but all payment for water shall cease on the
LOCATION OF PLANT. T
The plant. reservoirs and all the appur-
tenances, ETC., must be wholly within the
be at a head of 17 feet above mean high
tide, 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, nor to any
other consumer. except Jersey City.
RESERVOIRS.
The contractor shall provide independent
reservoirs and storage basins, located within
the State of New Jersey, in such places as to
supply for one hundred days hereunder, at
the rate of fifty million gallons per day.
CONTRACTOR MUST SHOW PLANS.
All appliances must be of approved patterns.
and drawings which must be furnished
and annexed as a requisite to the proposal.
SUPPLY MAIN OR MAINS.
The city viii require that all plans
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 157 feet above mean high tide into the reser-
voir at Belleville. The city will therefore re-
quire that all plans shall show two systems
of supply mains; one system shall show two
supply mains of equal capacity, which to-
gether shall be capable of delivering fifty
million gallons per day, and an additional
gate connected with the intake, so that a sup
ply main can be added capable of delivering
an additional fifty million gallons daily. The
other system shall show one supply main
capable of delivering fifty million gallons per
day, and an additional gate at the intake, SO
that an additional supply main can be added
capable of delivering another fifty million gal
Ions per day; both systems to deliver the
water at a head of 157 feet above mean high
tide into the reservoir at Belleville.
Inc CITY VIII usciue which system II Will
RIGHT OF WAY AND SEPARATE EsTI-
MATES.
In either case the contractor shall provide
a right OF way for the pipe lines at least
thirty feet in width; and in his bid shall
submit separate estimates as to the cost of
each system, and the cost per million gallons
according to the. scale referred to before on
each of the systems.
The city will decide which system it will
adopt.
AUXILIARY MAIN
The plans shall also show an auxiliary main
of 4S inches inside diameter. to connect the
Belleville Reservoir with High Service Res
ervoirs. This auxiliary main is to be used
in connection with the. city's present mains
connecting said reservoirs The contractor
shall submit a plan and a separate bid for
the construction of said main. and shall de-
scribe it's character, capability, strength, ma
terial, foundations and style. The city re-
serves the right to reject all bids for this
auxiliary main.
The city will, so far as it has legal power,
permit the contractor to use such lands as it
may own, or control, as may be necessary
for the purpose Of laying said auxiliary main
vice Reservoirs. And also use such land as it
may own, to lay all mains necessary, if
necessary, between the Passaic River and
Belleville Reservoir.
CONTRACTOR TO MAINTAIN PLANT.
The contractor shall maintain ready for use
from the date Of first delivery of water I'M
der this contract.
RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN
The city will place at the disposal of the
contractor such powers which it now has,
or may HEREAFTER acquire, to enable him to ac-
rights of way, storage reservoirs and also
water. Water rights and other property which