The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-05
SPECIFICATION 4.
REvISED AND AMENDED)
SPECIFICATION A..
For a new supply OF water for the City OF
Jersey City. N. J.

FOE Il new supply Ia "a Il hHC OANg ~
Jersey City. N. J..
PUMPING SPECIFICATION.
This specification is fora supply of water,
to be delivered by pumping at a head of one
hundred and ffty-seven feet above mean high
tide into the Belleviile reservoir owned by the
city, the city continuing to pump at It's Hlgh
Service Station for the supply OF water 10
those parts Of the city supplied by High Ser
BIDS RECEIVED.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City,
b. TIE Board of Street and Water Commission
els, will receive proposals for a new supply
OF water. based on this specification. at the
0 sc ot The Board. corner OF Mercer street
ana Jersey avenue, Jersey CITY. *. j.. on the
s5ih day of March, lSe5. at Il O'Clock A. n.
PRICE.
Bidders must be prepared to state a price
at zshielt a SUPPLY OF water will be furnished
&; the RATE of twenty million gallons per day,
a. the minimum consumption of the city,
a.u must provide a pumping capacity OF
slxty aIi-i.oIt saIioas per day so that 4 maxi
z-7Fiy IF nifty million gallons per day
I'm FURNISHED.
spot spst also be prepared to state a
--.p.idders . supply Of water will be fur
nsssrsa al rae-1arr Of fifty million gallons per
Gay as the minimum assumption OF the city.
sixty million gallons. per day, 50 that a
minimum Supply Of hfty nltllton gallons per
6&y can be furnished. and the city agrees. in
case It contracts. 70 take at least twenty
n4i,ilsa gallons per day and only so much
more as reqiired from time 70 time.
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 gallons, U. S. Standard, on the
following sliding scale.
SCALE OF RIGGS PER GAL
Ions.
A price PEI 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.
\ price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between thirty and
thirty-fve million gallons daily.
\ price per million gallons for each addi-
tional million gallons between thirty-hve 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 add,
tioaal million gallons between forty-iye and
fifty million gallons daily.
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. lards and rights of way
and all appurt snIaf tn and basement easements
of this specification to the extent
or 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, 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 a 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
pumping plant, the water supply, water rights,
storage reservoirs, pipe lines, lands and rights
of way and all appurtenances and
necessary to fulfill the. requirements Of this
specification with a minimum supply Of fifty
million gallons Of water daily, forever, and
10 ho1dE the S0la and exclusive 0FnPrSn1D
thereto, and to any excess above said mini
mum supply of fifty million gallons per day
date Of delivery of water. The city will pay
for said purchase of the plant and so forth,
either IN cash or bonds, or in part cash and
part bonds, at the option Of the city, the bonds
10 bear interest at a 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 understood
that a bond equal to ten per cent. of the
cost agreed upon to be paid, Is to be furnished
ton. (the security to be subject to approval
according to law for the term of five years
from date Of purchase of plant; that said water
supply. plant and appurtenances shall be in
every respect in accordance with the require
ments of this specification, but all payments
for water shall cease on the completlon Oh con-
tract to purchase.
PLANT, ETC, MUST BE 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 same can be used exclusively Tor
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 prove to tn satisfaction
ne the city that the pumping capacity of the
stream, at the place where the pumping is
done. will, without independent reservoirs, fur
nisa a ssipply by pumping, equal to fifty mil
l,on gallons per day at all seasons of the year;
or sSafISshow IN his plan, independent reser-
voirs and storage basins, located within the
Stare of&%ew Jersey, in such places as to re-
caiva and be capable of storing, in addition to
tsa eowf of the stream where the pumping Is
dona fthe capacity OF which stream must be
desiynated in the proposap, a water supply for
sixfv da,< delivery hereunder at the rate
of fifty million gallons per day, at all seasons
of the year.
PUMPS.
All app,iances must be OF approved patterns
and be specifically designated in the plans
81 drawings. which must be FUR
nished and annexed, as a requisite to the
rronosal' The city will require that the total
"a naeity of pumps and boilers shall be sixty
million gallons daily. The pumps must work
with 4 pressure of not less than one nun
dred and forty pounds to the square men,
and shall be OF a modern type OF the ssyIe
known as Triple Expansion High DUTY con.
senging Engines. and shall have 2 stroke %