The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-11
COMPANY ASTONISHBD.
William Corbin for the East
Jersey Water Company
Says the Mistake Will
Be Reetifed.

Mr.. William H. Corbin, counsel for the
East Jersey Water Company, prepared
stat sment this afternoon which gives
the views of the company upon the fiz-
zle This is the statement
1.-The announcement made yesterday
morning that the carrying capacity of
the Pequannock pipe is only little over
35,0o0,000 gallons per day was a great sur
prise to the officers of the East Jersey
that Mae the ppe FIJI aaa ssep o syn
00s,00O but nothing less than 100000 had
ever been mentioned. They cannot yet
Of the estimates M ties POI on i Which e they icy mad made
their large Investments Even within
week the Engineer of the Newark Wa
ly his conviction thar the pipe would car
rry 4S,0e0,o0o gallons. and he has intimated
that if the outlet at Newark We're low
50, 100000 gallons. Mr.. Fteley,. a prom
inent New York hydraulic engineer, pub
tha Hy We hs ppe Volta 1 ths fall
belowv 5O0o00O0 the deficiency would be
small.
ing capacity should not have long ago
been accurately discovered. i believe it
is true that the pipe actually delivered
was put in use. but it is thought that the
accumulated slime of four years. such as
is found in all water mains. has reduced
y
IS necessary. that all water mains should
be cleaned from time to time if the full
ca, CARVING capacity Is to be maintained.
plicate mains.
1.-THE laying of the Peouannock main
forty-eght inches in diameter and twenty
six miles long-the first pipe. of such di-
mensions that has been laid for public
existence in California for hydraulic
mining purposes. but the water flowing
through these was not measured, there
being no occasion to measure it.
Strange as it appears the truth seems
to be that no accurate continuous meas
urement Of water in 50 large q main has
meter used on the Pequannock line is an
invention. of recent application and the
capacity. and. is said to be the only 3 one Sfrs
In existence by which it is possible to
continuously measure so large a stream of
water flowing under pressure. The larg-
est meters of other kinds are twelve
inches IN diameter
The, East Jersey Water Company has
been doing experimental work and as
srprsea a All the bids offered ss to JeTseg
paries and drawn by different capable
PIPE S as in the lght Of this present in IN
1T is a fortunate thing for the city
Of Newark and for Jersey City and for
III the other towns 2,ua eobitaining SUPPLIES Of
made at the expense Of the East Jersey
Water Company and not at the public
cost. The people will suffer only a little
inconvenience and delay. while the hnan-
cial loss will fall entirely upon the COM
pany; Water vas delivered 70 the people
contract, and they have for several
years enjoyed an ample and excellent
supply, and within the five years yet re-
manning viii have their works fully per-
fected and will never suffer the loss Of a
dollar; but on the contrary will get ex-
cellent water, works at much less than
they are worth.
'As to Jersey City the company has
by strenuous efforts and the expenditure
Of several hundred thousand dollars put
in pipes more than three months sooner
than the contract required and Is now:
furnishing water SUFFICIENT to supply Ber-
gen, Greenville and Harrison Kearny
and Bayonne; The pressure across the
meadows has been increased SO that much
pumping can be saved, and the carrying
capacity Of the pipes So augmented that
no new main need be built by the city
A full temporary supply for the city viii
be furnished at no distant day. Not
dollar of the enormous loss, occasioned
hv the mistake, will fan upon the city
Every moment Of the three months re.
mafning Of the time thin which Jersey