The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-24
TEMPORARY SUPPLY
East Jersey Company Offers
New Water Whether 1t
Gets the Contract
OF Not.
CAN Be TURNED 0, IN FIVE MONTHS
City officials Listen to W. Il.
Corbin's Explanation Of
the Plan.

kuC i lQns
The East Jersey Water Company was
given a hearing in Mayor Wanser's pri-
vate office, in the City Hall. this morn
ing. The Mayor all the members Of
the Street and Water and Finance
Boards. Corporation Counsel Blair. CITY
Attorney Weart and City Treasurer
Samuel Dickinson were present The
water company's representatives We're
Counsellor William H. Corbin, George F.
Baker, President of the First National
Bank Of New York; Engineer Eersehel
and Assistant Engineer William Gardner
Mr.. Corbin acted as spokesman for the
company He began. by stating that the
company proposed, under its formal BID,
TO gather water at such point in or
about the Boonton Plane or Powervilie,
SO as TO deliver it by gravity at head
of 30 feet above tide water at High
Service.
Through a double pipe the comrapy's
prices range from S73 for the first 2c.-
000, 600 TO $50 for 50,S,0,900 gallons daily
If delivered through a single pipe the
prices on a sliding scale are from $3.50
for the first 2O000,O00 gallons daily to
s3S for 50000,0OO gallons daily For this
plant, with double pipe lines, the COM
pany asks SO, 600, 900, with the privilege
of selling the surplus over 50,000.000 gal
Ions daily, and for a single pipe line only
50, coo 000 with the same conditions. The
company will accept 80 per cent. in
cash, the remaining so per cent. to be
paid in bonds at par, bearing per cent.
interest, interest to be paid quarterly,
and the principal at time to be agreed
upon, not within twenty years. If the
city wants the. plant with the right TO
asked for a double pipe line and $lO,-
05O.oO0 for single pipe line.
THE COMPANY'S PLAN.
The seompany's plan is to gather water
in the Rockaway shed and establish it's
intake as stated heretofore at Boonton,
from which point its head for gravity is
attained. If it is found necessary the
Rcckaway supply is to be supplemented
by other waters controlled by the COM
pany and also by the Morris Canal Com
pany. It is proposed to use the. Morris
Canal if necessary and secure its par
tial abandonment.
The plan centemplates a new pipe line
across the Hacken sack, from .Belleville
to High Service The company's supple
enental proposition provides for a double
cost of S. 900 for double pipe line,
and 81, 7,25o.0e0 for a single pipe. The sec
ond supplemental proposition of the
company IS that it will pay the city
Sa0.OGO if its proposition is accepted, for
fhs surplus water over $4,000 900 gallons
day stored or gathered.
The conpany'S third supplemental prop
ositfon is to establish an intake on the
Passaic River at Little Falls and pump
from that point to High Service. +
would be necessary TO supply Greenville.
$50 per million gallons. would be charged
and sS5 per million gallons for water not
plan the company proposed giving a
temporary supply in six months;
give the oRany efa al aa It's waea Pt9PGR8a rsRa and
rights of way in the Rockaway shed for
s2.4e5.O0O and then build the city plant
Mr. Corbin explained that the com
water shed Of i1s square miles without
SUPPLY FOR 100 DAYS.
The reservoirs would be located at
such of the suitable places as borings
storage caDacity is to equal. if not ex-
ceed a supply for 100 days at consump-
ton of 50,0O0000 gallons daily.
city all rights of way, and water rights
in the shed for 50, 465OO0 provoked dis
cusston. With this agreement as basis
alton, build the works with one pipe for
cost, plus twenty per cent. at So, ,942 600,
which would bring the cost of the plant
offered $4,000 for the surplus waters, or
If the. city prefers. the company will
eapitalize, the s4O,o 600 payment in ad-
vance and pay 600 in one sum at the
outset. which would reduce the cost of
the works SO that they would be guar
anteed not to cost in excess of s., ,9o7, 900.
agreement $7.157,000. Then with capital
lied 1000 the cost would be reduced to
se.657 600. If it is found that the works
would eo to the ofty's credit.
MIR. Corlsin claimed that the company S
plan had the commendabIe feature of
1aofr- Ill .t,
miles of water shed he contended that
the city would never have to worry over
its future supply; Of course the 1 company
under the specifications and if at any
time more was required the city world
have to go. to the expense of enlarging
and expanding its plant. The gathering
or the water at Boonton he said gave
the company the flow of all the noun
tain streams and lakes referred to by
WILL KEEP THE WATER PURE.
The Boonton intake involved the ques-
fion of the continual condition of the
water The company, he SAID, would
care for the slight possible contarr1ina- a.
ttion of Dover, Port Dram and Rockaway
vides for the location of an intake 50
that Roonton's surface water Will he
avoided. Just where the intake would
he located he was unable to state, but il
would be between Boonton and Power
vile, which are only five miles apart
He claimed that the sewage from the
he material. To prevent pollution after
the plant was built the city would have
to exercise its vested rights.
.Do we get the use of Lake Hopat-
cong under this plan?" asked Commis-
sioner Simpson.
"Our watershed of 119 square miles
does not embrace Hopateong," was the
reDlv.
1t was shown that Hopatcong has a
slrpply for 100 days alone and Mr.. Corb.r
fir.lly sold tFat If i was required te
fulfill the 5O,000Oeo gallons daily contract
if would be drawn upon. otherwise not
Hopatcong water. he said. could be car
rjed TO Rconton through pipes Mayor
Wanser eontended that in order to dc
that it would be necessary to divert the
natural course of the water. The Mayor
declared that It was only q question ot
reservoirs as TO how much water could
be gathered and stored, and Mr.. corhin
admitted that was so. Mr.. Corbin also
safd that about ona-haf of the surplus
water eff Lake ITepatcong was now turned
into the Morris Canal Fopatcong's
overf7ow is ahos,t 2oN0ooOOo gallons
daily. He also said that the. company's
storage plan could he wonderfully in
creased hv the establishment of a sreser-
ro.r at Peach Glen. where the Jersey
CITY Water Company has an enormous
fsf,lssg. LAKE HoPATcoNG TO BE USED
The comnapy. Mr.. Corhin asserted hv
intending TToratcong in its plan, could
e4ora a c1nn]y sufficient for two years