The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-13
Contract for Temporary Supply
to Be Made With the East
Jersey Company.
CHEAPEST, sUREST, BEST
Analysis of All the Bids Shows
the Accepted One to Be Far
the Cheapest.
PRICE IS RATED TO CAPACITY
s7.95o. GOO Cheaper for a Plant with
$50 Days, Storage Than s5,65o,-
600 for ene With Only
14o Days.

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The Street and Water Commissioners
met this morning. By a unanimous
vote they awarded the contract for the
furnishing of new supply of pure and
wholesome water to the Jersey City
water Company The award embraces
single pipe to cost $7,950,Ooo
There were at least one hundred peo-
ple in the lobby when the resolution OF
award was made and a murmur of ap-
proval was heard from every one. with
the possible exception of ex-Assenlbly-
man Harry Holmes. President of the
Roekaway and Hudson Company. Pre-
vious to the passage of the resolution OF
award, Acting Clerk startup read re-
port from the Committee of the Whole.
on the relative advantages of the propo-
i sitions submitted TO the Board. 1t was
an interesting document and shows very
y clearly that the price per million gallons
] under the Jersey City company's propo-
!, sition is lowest.
4 TEMPORARY SUPPLY CONTRACT.
In addition to awarding contract
7 for permanent supply provision was
made also for the immediate acquisition
q of q temporary supply which viii re-
: Heve consumers from continuing to use
the filthy Passaic water.
The temporary supply was awarded to
the East Jersey Water Company, which
company declares that it can turn it's
surplus of Pequannoclz water now sup
piled to Newark into the Belleville res
L ervoir within three months.
The contract for the temporary sup
kply is made with the East Jersey Com
pany for one year, with the privilege of
extending it for an additional term. For
temp yary supply the East Jersey Com
pany .Arges $3.50 for the first 2O.oooOoo
gallons daily, and then on sliding scale
until only s22 is charged for 5O,oOO,ooo
gallons daily.
COMMITTEES REPORT.
The report of the Committee of the
Whole, which preceded the award to the
Jersey City Company for a permanen.
supply was as follows
The Committee of the Whole of this
Board. having under consideration the
proposals received July l, 1895, for fur
nishing a new water supply for Jersey
City would report to the Board that all
proposals have received consideration as
presented and that the committee visited
all the water sheds as shown by each
bidder and after such inspection also
attended the meetings arranged for each
bidder to state the merits of each plan
before the committee and the members
of the Board of Finance.
The committee have spent a consider
- ie time in the examination of the
5plemental bids offered by each bidder
I determine whether such bids offered
Avantages greater than the formal pro-
bosals made in response to the specifi-
}cations issued by the Board and have
concluded that the supplemental pro-
positions lack definfteness in some re
SDGCIS WHICH WOulA liOodNC NOiAAdSAcii
and make conditions as part of their
plan, which would not be advantageous
to the city; the offer of the East Jersey
Water Company relating to a temporary
supply being the only matter contained
in any of the supplemental bids which
is now engaging our attention and of
which this report will make mention,
and even that is coupled with conditions.
Reaching such conclusions we have ex-
amined the formal bids with great care
to reach conclusion in three points.
l. Which bid offered according to quail
ity Of water to be furnished the lowest
price per million gallons
Q Which bid. cn the basis of ac-
quiring the water supply by purchase,
would be most likely to be accepted by
s the people when submitted to their votes,
as. required by an existing law.
8. whether the pipe should be single
of. double.
And we arrived at these conclusions -
i. That the Jersey City Water Com,
pany being definitely stated, which is moi
the case in either of the other bids, and
being so located that they are above al
possible sewage communications, are more
likely to be satisfactory to the voters
to whom must be submitted the ques
tiou of purchasing the water supply