The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-11
And the Company Must Surrender
The work. Entirely TO
Newark in 1900.

Engineer Cornelius c. yermeule this
morning filed with the Street and Water
Commissioners a report covering twenty
seven type written pages. 1t deals with
the condition of affairs in the Pequannock
River watershed and the ability of the
East Jersey Water to give this city an
adequate temporary supply from that
source The report has been watched
for with keen interest, upon it de-
pends the acceptance or rejection of the
East Jersey Companys offer to supply
this city temporarily. The report is a
hummer 1t is as follows
In obedience to your instructions to ex-
anime and report upon the present ca
pacity of the plant of the city OF New
neck River, and the ability of the East
Jersey Water Company to furnish tenn
porary supply to Jersey City from the
surplus water available from that plant,
to whiah surplus the East Jersey Water
Company derived title by virtue of their
contract with the city of Newark, beg
In report as follows -
/ visited and examined the storage res
ervcirs and the intake on January il.
/ also visited the, Office of the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners in the
city of Newark, and by the courtesy of
the Beard obtained copies of all reports
made TO the Board by the East Jersey
Water Company as to the yield OF III, the
Pequannock River since June l, 1891
The record in the office of the Board was
found to be continuous up to December
l. 1885, since which date there had been
no further report. l also obtained rec
ords of the delivery of water to the
city of Newark since the turning on of
the supply and certain gaugings made
by Mr.. Sherrerd, the engineer of the
dam, December i to January Y, with
the amount of water actually in the
same period. In order to make my data
as complete as possible | applied by let
ter to the Engineer and Superintendent
of the East Jersey Water Company for
any facts which the company wished to
submit bearing upon my inquiry.
i wish to acknowledge the courtesy ex-
tended by Mr.. Herschel and the company,
to facilitate my investigation. By invitation
of Mr.. Herschel / visited the plant, in
Guiding the reservoirs, intake and Ven
craught of the conduit is measured, on
January 81. AT that date work had be-
gun clearing up the right of way below
the intake, preparatory to laying new
were pending, on the result of which
would depend the size of conduit to be
adopted, no work had actually begun on
& Referring to Mr.. Herscheps letter of
January Is, do not understand it to be
within my instructions to attempt to in
terpret the contract which was made by
your Board with the East Jersey Water
Company for temporary supply. or the
Language of the proposition submitted
that contract was founded. Understand
ing that the company have already ad-
mitted their inability to comply with
the question of what Jersey City needs
for temporary supply, and of the abil-
ity of the East Jersey Water Company
to supply those nc needs In case any future
Allowing for slip of the pumps, the
actual consumption of water by Jersey
City. Bayonne and Harrison may be TAX
en- at present to be practically "a million
gallons daily. Having in mind the re-
duced waste which might be expected
from the Introduction of pure water, and
greater extent by the introduction of
meters and seH-closing cocks your Board
decided that from 20 to % million gall
Ions ,no aaly, which was offered you in the
would be sufficient see no reason for
changing your estimate, as I believe
that by the devices mentioned the guam
rity used can be reduced to 20 million
gallons within period of two or three
years, but this reduction will necessarily
be gradual, and the actual needs of the
city are best expressed by the elastic
statement from 20 to % million gallons,
with 20 million gallons as the miaimum
amount Which VIII supply your city. In
other words the range of the daily sup
ply should be from 20 million gallons
upward. An average of 20 million gal
Ions daily, ranging from 5 or million
gallons up to % million gallons will not
meet your requirements, but you must
be able to depend on a supply of 20 mill
ion gallons at all times.
The necessity of mixing impure water
In the proportion of from one-quarter to
,three-quarters of the total supply will
render the entire supply unwholesome,
and cannot be satisfactory to your city
Then the capacity of your mains across
the Meadows is so limited that there
must be no fuctuation in the amount of
the supply at Belleville, because it is
only by working all Of your present pipes
to about. their full capacity that your
city can be supplied with sufficient water.
fluctuation at Bergen reservoirs is
much more permissible than a f7uctuation
a Eelleville, for the capacity of Belle
Vile reservoir is. in all, less than half
days supply and really that reservoir
should not be drawn down to the ex-
tent of two hours supply, for when low
cred to any extent the head upon the
pipes and their discharging capacity is
reduced.
II supply of twenty million gallons
daily can be thus depended upon at Belle
vile at all times, with a possible increase
to % million gallons then 4 maxi1rIIn
draueht Of about 25 million gallons ia mid