The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-02

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proportions will vary from nne-olarfe~
g one-half pure Pequannock ny water fa
i 81 u nFee+qnartsrs to one-half polluted
tas wnote supply would be slightly more
l NE put stiil polluted and unsafe.
rs lS bale9g mban X supply viii be ieasi
and when a return to The use
Of that source alone will be most obiec-
y ynapis. ~ would seem that tine very
sLshn refer Wnich may be obtained from
the Pequannock during the next tvs
Years VII be at too great cost and too
i1eNa rise or d disa legal complications n;aa with
Respectfully submitted.
G. .VERMEULE.
4rro,a Jersey City. February 10. 1886.
submitting correspondence between the
East Jersey. Water Company and c.. Over
as Fererred to in preceding report.
:, New York. Feb. 4. 1896.
Mr. Clements Herschel. Eng. and Sunt.
last Jersey Water Co. No. 2 Wall
Dear sir-As you are probably aware. I
pave been instructed by the Mayor and
81 Jersey City to examine and report upon
the capacity of the plant of the East Ter
t to have sWa t from oo mp ! hall be pleased
company may wish to submit bearing up-
on tne present delivery of the 4S-inch main
the ability of the same as now deyeloped
% provide a. supply of 30 million gallons
uaiiy. II VIII be specially useful to me if
~qvannock River since June i. 1895, up to
the present time. and the amount Of
NaLer which, was actualIy in your reser-
Fo1rs December / and January /. l shall
also be pleased to receive and take cog
nlzance or any other information which
question. If you prefer it I win submit
a copy OF my certificate of appointment.
Very truly yours,
c. c. VERMEULE.
New York. January % 1905
&C. Vermeule, Esq, Civil Engineer. II
broadway. New York
Dear Sir-Acknowledging receipt of your
letter, of January q. I beg leave to saw
on behalf of the East Jersey Water Com
pDa any mat as you know, the com
and has maintained daily guagings Of ths
Yield or run-off Of the Pequannock water
Shed above the intake dam more than
them.
You have hitherto received copies of
r raea; resuiss OF these guagings, and win
after.
ea The e company also placed a metre at
readings of which win be sent You.
SHOULD. you desire to go with me to ex-
anime the plant Of this eompan in de-
tan ana observe the methods used in re-
corning and computing the guagings that
nave beer referred to. I am at your dis
posal Tor an appointment to that end.
49, = SLdlCS your
pressure TO receive. from this company
any facts It may wish to submit bearing
upon the aollity of the plant as now de-
vel9ped to provide a supply of so million
gallons daily.
But We desire to call your attention
tnat me company never claimed already
20 nave a plant of that capacity. The
company has until September "a. 1906. to
create such a plant, and has already
vert and earth work, made necessary bv
such an additional conduit. Operated in
conjunction with the present conduit. tina
new one Viii deliver materially more
June 10 next it will be SO far completed
as to furnish 5 million gallons more
similarly with regard to the run-off OF
the appurtenant drainage area. By Sep
TENDER "a. 1900 a drainage area proven
to have been developed SO as to yield 50
milton gallons daily. will certainly have
Particularly is the point aboye made
appncable to the dealings OF, this COM
represent. July "a last, at a public hear
ing in the Mayors Office. the present
writer stated that Newark in 1851 had
All other consumers from the e eondnit
We're drawing about one million
gallons, so that Jersey CITY
s Hesrs prior IN th lss : f haae in received the tw ggo
1884 average draft of % million gallons.
that IS TO say: it was stated that the con-
duit was carrying A million gallons, and
according to the writer's best knowledge
and belief at that time, the conduit should
rave carried that quantity under available
circumstances q head or slope given to
the water such as are applied to it to-
day.
Nor does the supplemental proposition
NO. 4 of this company to jersey City OF
June 20. 1895, claim to control an average
OF 90 million gallons daily.
1t states that Jersey City might have
clusively'' for tire years past. that is, in
1892. 1893 n 1894: this statement being
again predlcated on a supposed delivery
by. the conduit of A million gallons daily.
The statement further on in Supplemental
al proposition No. 4. that The supply
available for the next two or three years
will be from 20 to % million gallons, and
should. under ordinary conditions be sutf1-
cient for the city's requirements is in
and specific two statements above quoted.
And this statement Of quantity available
to Jersey City even when taken alone.
eannot be construed TO mean an offer Of
an average of 50 million gallons daily dur
ing any one year. If taken at 20 million
gallons daily, as it may be taken, it
tanned average of p million gallons. one
million gallons to small consumers, or a
total of 4S million gallons available from
ilarly. Newark's computed average Of q
million gallons for the year 1896. one MILL
ion gallons to small consumers. or, again,
4S million gallons in all. For 1887 it
would mean Newark's computed Average
Of as million gallons one million to
SiHdi COuSutHtrS. OF $40 mllliOn SdU0nS IN
all. And this exhausts the two or three
years referred to.
That average quantities throughout the
year, not minimum daily quantities. were
spoken of in the clause of Supplemental
Proposition No. 4 last duotedg as in the
rest of the Proposition, is proven by the
Immediately following sent9hce. which
gees on to say
sit should be remembered that Jersey
City's reservoirs have a capacity of about
on one r anpqrea b m,dl9 EN-, q + garlons nc
of water required on extremely hot or
extremely cold days can be drawn from
the supply stored in these reservoirs pre-
ciselyas the city is NOW obliged to do.
owing to the limited capacity of the ex-
isting pipe lines aer9ss the Meadows.
Yours very truly.
CLEMENS HERSCHEL,
Engineer and Superintendent The New
Jersey Water Company;
g. c. vermeule. Esq. civii Engineer, I
Broadway, New York.
January 2sth j Send you with this copies
Of what We cyl the so million computa-
ton from Juak LIST, 1891, to the beginning
OF me preseaJ month.
These tableE show the yield of the Pc
week to week; and they also show the
amount thft would nave been in store in
the reserrR irs had SO million gallons daily
been dra5jn at the intake
You Will observe that the tables show
the faYowing .low-water marks. or the
1ewsstJ quantities in store at any time
during the year, had a draft of 50 million
gallaRs daily taken place-
1s9E in the week ending November Is,