The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-08
WATER GALORE.
East Jersey Notifies the City
That 1t Can Give Its
Contract Supply.
REBATES MUST NOW STOP
The Company Extending Its Plant
Hopes to Meet Jersey City's
Needs for Years.
B A MUST NOW STOP

The following Communication was sent
to the Street and Water Board today, to
& be read at this afternoons. regular
meeting:-
New York, June s, 1896.
no the Members Of the Beard Of Street
City, N -
Gentlemen-We have submitted for May
Dur usual monthly statement OF pe dally
and IN connection therewrsh, we peg 70
state that since the SUN of May, the dow
an our Pequannock conduit has pesn IN
creased TO 45.6 million gaiions per Wy.
fbeing fully up to the Capacity ~ was
supposed 10 have at the TIME our con-
tract with the city was mace. This re-
suit has been attained ny the construction
sof a second conduil OF 8 diameter, 2
distance OF 5s miles from the Maeopln
Intake to- Pomplon Notch, and the Jolhiiis
sof the two coaduits a the latter place
tawith the single conduit running from there
lftS Belleville. aon,
sdpf not less than 40 million galiens PEI
Ssday in the conduit. It 5 sxpectea ,dia a.
4this amount will be gradually, increased 70
ESQ million gallons, reaching the latter III
lure mot later than November next. liz
samos,nt properly managea WI wII he IS Smaller
lsatowns which have the first rlgnt TO oIAM
upon il, but will give Jersey CITY hedriy
- afl the water lLf WILL 1lCCOs ~ atG,L
Our contract which was made OCTOBER
yl2, 1895, gave us until April Y, lSso, 70
turn on. the water. but IN view q t Tue
kurgent needs OF! the city we pusnea me
tsEwork with speed, and completed our con-
SnectioaS January 10. and by the terms o.
sthe contract we were enLIien TO pa iyerad
The CARRYING. capacity of the pipe az
hthat time proved to be less thar was SUP.
posed when we made the contract IN
Eview Of this unlocked for discovery, we
VOLUNTARILY offered, January 18th. 1898, 70
sdelives the supply available, until anrsr
Ito talie about half price until we coald
tbring up the carrying capacity OF me
conduit to that suppose b TO e eSlS' main m1rlt was a
sat onee begun. and, as above stafea, We y
finished to the connection at 6orlpSo.l
Notch. and put in use on May ~, SO -
10 create a dow of over 45 million gallons
The Temporary supply CONTEMPLATED in our
scontrhot has thus been fully PROVIDED pe,
sfcre the beginning of summer, ana sns
l~Speopde{ of your city need have no 1urllsr
anxiety as TO the quality OF thelr Watsf
The rebates proposed ip cur letter OF p
isgsnuary To-, will Accordingly terminals
F~orspurposs aside from our Jersey CRY
coutraet we are continuing tne Go on I
tions of our ssco.s conduit 1re5 ERR pumsbbIisi
ssa5bn,ated in November The TWO
aconduI1s wilsthen have a capaetS2 all -
aeliseassAgoasp T. H' a1il,s9nk, g Ri%er. h hoW RsieG
Ei.isi The ESeifrce Of supply, is calcu.
aatedsto yield only SO million gallons o. u
ore nyactieaNE m for the present year,
1t must not be forgotten thai eveh ;oo
million gallons of water Will sooH o5 no ~ ~
sEfhcient foTsNpply the demaios
AZ. ItsSM ls sestansafed that these two cities
and ne ssgss 9tas zrii fpw Taeui nsms "e
JnAS,snsp IL Ssmirion gallons per day
In 1887, 5os3 million gallons per per dday.
In 11SSs, Ms smillion gallons per Gay.
In 19oo.s 5S:5Emillion gallons per day,
AS NeMarkNand IT'S nelgnogfiin s obvious
wholly on Jersey City. r,ni,e the
III must beSremembered that WhLe ~
flow In the corlduits will be urliform ang
the draft of water py u hi
win fuctuate greatly; on easrerGi wv each
4sks several In5llion gallons more than
orddnarfiy. Newark's maximum orail WI
be 27,5oo, 900 gallons, that berng oi IS and and I'D.
iacent towns should have a maNinnuin
draft of about, 100000 gallons, mahlng 9 Z
total of q. 0Oo, 600 gallerts maximum oran
in Essex County. This would leave q
days when the maximum IS draMn, BE- pats
2I. 900, OG0 gallons to come across phe 80 80
safe River. Fortunately, however ,Jerses
CITY has reservoirs on bergen. Hei6dtal
for such. emergencies, which hold l4V;gV9,.
oN3 Gallons. and whichever IA few. miiiiohs
only are needed ITO make ub the deiaciencs
they can be drawn from these reservoirs
and the reservoirs wall fill mp again Wnea
lTha weather moderates. Some puinpllIT
Of Passaic water at BelleNille may, Stll
he necessary, but as stated IN our Pig las.
July-'sThe smaa qua uant tfE7e SO 70 9 3fDe dss
when the river is in the most favoraplt
condition and the water cDmpafseise
Ii. however, the city desires to add t
the temporary<supply SO as tothave enougt
for all It's uses and in every conIlngency
and to completely do away with the pump
ing of the PaSsaic water az Bellevue
this company is willing. to supplement tnt
GLOW in it's mains by adding thereto, neal
Mllttle Falls, water of unexceotiorabe pur.
sfty; and if this arrangement IS mads, cai
guarantee ITO give Jersey cry 9 lui sup
jply of wafer from day to day ana at al
Dora porary Contract. This Supplementary
a age Of about lbout'e one~thisd Of a million gal
ions per day, and in 1893 about S,00O,W
gallons per day.
If the city desires this addition to thu
supply contracted for, we should be mott
fled soon, as. the work should be done dur
Ding the rI present eo5v summer. I'VE recapitulat,
the amounts OF water which we have de
llivered to Jersey City since delivery com
January, 2OS.1 million gallons; average
81 million gallons daily.
lo:4 millions. gallons, daily.
March, 357.5 million gallons; average
HIS million gallons daily.
April, 4tS.T million gallons, average, ID.
million gallons daily.
May, 44 million gallons; average, 10 mil
lion gallons daily.
Since connecting the second main on
daily delivery has been:5
syEMays 81, 22.5 million gallons.
June /, pa million gallons. A
June q, 21.4 million gallons. 49,
ISaJune S, 20.2 million gallons. f
June A, N.3 million gallons.
June s., q. {mdllion gallons
Junes6, 81 million gallons.
Being an average of 21.64 million gallon
per day.
NHE FAST JDRSEY WATER COM
PANY,
BY Collins & Corbin. Attorneys.