The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-11


ready for service at moments notice
This prevents any material saving in the
running expenses of that pumping station
supply will be practically all an additional
expense unless 20 million gallons can be de-
pended upon at all times.
on the Peauannock River now belongs tc
the City of Newark. and that that city
has the right to draw q. 100000 gallons
other contracts which call for 100000 gal
lens daily, so that 29,00000O gallons daily
is thus disposed of. and in order to supply
4s million gallons daily must be the totai
capacity of the plant. If we consider
only the average draught of Newark and
1855 Newark used 9a.5oeooo salons. lion havins
daily over TIT the year 1894 TRe same o Fate u
Newark during 1896 Is million gallons
daily average, and the consumption OF
the other towns supplied may be, taken al
sumption during 1896. This would leave
23.S million gallons on the average basis,
for the plant. But il must It be remenibered
that this average consumption of Newark
will again increase during 1897 and so on
to o,s the tt TERMINATION Of the contract be-
1900 so that if We are to consider sup.
oa m Il capacity m s' Of Ss the l0 pant shoud
tainly be fully 50 million gallons daily.
It is for this reason that I invited the
any facts bearing on the ability Of the
plant as now developed, to provide a
supply of 50 million gallons daily.
value can come from any increased pres
sure due to this new supply until at
least enough can be provided to at all
times fill one of your 36 inch MAINS and
substantial a6UanfaQa will raSu1t
can be relied on at ali times. / note that
shond MA be- ade fo ncrease na hs aryn as
plying increased pressure to the old 20
inch man + this e1Tld safely be done i
million milo gallons i daily. saI' but Examined sa
this main carefully. at your request. one
ths HaelSensack River. and # is is II saeh .
against any proposition to, increase the
ay be upon total # ofs r d eap e that a the and rfs
serious curtailment of your supply in
consequence. The main is i'll adapted
to support the present pressure upon 1t,
and is at best in a hazardous condition.
1t must also be remembered that with
an adequate supply of pure water, and
fe edItoo Was.s whien yogr plans ans
be required. for the mains will be well
able to carry 20 to % million gallons daily
without increased pressure. ana the pru-
dent course would be to work them un,,
der the easiest possible pressure until
you nave new main to depend upon
through the Introduction Of new supply
of water or otherwise.
The capacity of the present 48-inch con-
duit from. the Peauannock. is now well
asnertained to O. ga; little less than IS
times draws her full 275oo.ooo gallons, and I'd
the other towns supplied may be expected
to draw their 100000 gallons. it win be
q a1jf " nf IA nj
your supply must fall as low as 6 or 7
million gallons daily. You will note that
Mr. Herschel suggsss that the laying Of
eastward to Pompton Notch. distance of
about five miles. and sEere connecting
it with the present conduit, the capacity
million gallons. and he expects that this
can be accomplished by June 15 next.
Jersey this cify ap tnersster reaizfe e
Ions daily but in view of the fact that
the beginning Of work on the conduit is
with Newark. and the further fact tina t
the estimated increase of million gaE
Ions is not sure to be realized, even this
must be regarded as probsematical I'm
der the most favorable conditions you
have no warrant for expecting that, a
vile and brought into operation within
one year after the work is fairly begun.
Even to accomplish the work within
forf fort e have e reached s4as5a2a this coneiuson ion
from study of the progress which has
been made in building such conduits un-
der very favorable conditions. and on
the calculation that at least a 36-inch
conduit will be needed to meet the re-
quirements of the company's contract
with the city of Newark
building of this main alone will put the
company in position of undoubted abil-
ity to perform it's contract. In other
words, supposing the mains to be suffi-
cient. has 1T storage enough on it's water
shed to insure delivery of SO million
gallons daily at all times. The area of
Mr.. Herschel to be e2.e square miles.
My own measurements make it 637
square miles, which believe to be more
nearly correct. In my report on water
applicable to the Pequannock, which
shows that during the driest year the
average. yield will be SOL thousand gall
is a year which is extremely dry, and only
one equally dry year has occurred since
1926. Since this would make. the yield
million gallons daily, it is. evident that
there is water enough to be had there,
provided there is sufficient storage to
make up the shortage Of the dry months
water. The rainfall of such a dry year
amounts to about 31.6 inches. while once
in seven years we are likely to have a
year with about thirty-five inches rain
fall and the average rainfall is forty
four inches Since June, 1891, the East
Jersey Company has kept records of the
intake. The rainfall during these years
has been 1928, 1874. 4s.7S and 4487 inches
showing that none of them have been
very much below the average. conse-
quently at no time has the river run
las low as it may be expected to do.
From June to November, 1891, the rainfall
was 1875 inches. the average for these
1a.od inches. It viii be seen cen a that this this
was by no means an exceptionally dry
period. Mr.. Herscilel has furnished
table showing the yield of the Peouan-
an estimate of what would have been
the condition of his reservoirs If so mil
lion gallons daily had been drawn
to aes eona0 R0ksa ss5 q mon aons M
vember 8. only lS1 million gallons going
to waste in all. that time viz, on Aug
usst "a, when there is recorded a rain
fall of 1,145 million gallons for the week
expiring on that day.
The capacity Of Oak Ridge reservoir is
drainage of rs square miles. Clinton
has a capacity of 1859 million
gallons, and receives the Drainage from
81 81 Square miles The intake trsservoir
storage wiisadev1er. Below Oak Ridge,
and Clinton reservoirs PA square miles
and at any time when the flow from this
part of the watershed exceeds the
amount of water taken into the pipe
there IS water wasted over Macopin dam,
Mr.. Herschel has assumed that during
any week when the average flow of this
lower Eart of the watershed is 50 mill
lion gallons daily, he will catch it all
This is a DANGEROUS ass11171rlfinu from the