The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-22

street, to and connecting with the Y
IN Walker avenue.
Estimated cost, 81, 20456.
From the am Board
Transmitting resolution passed py Sdtu
Board December ! 1881, and approved py
the Mayor December 8, 1877
Resolved, That the Board of FINANCE
hereby n~on-concurs in so much Of the foi-
lowing resolution adopted by the board
Of Street and Water Commissioners mo-
venlber 20, 1897, as refers to the payment
of the following claims.-
Charles T.. Davis. for one cord OF WOOD,
cut in 10-inch blocks, delivered to the
price Is excessive.
From the same Board -
transmitting resolution passed by SAID
Board December ], 1897, and approved py
the Mayor December 8. 1877
Resolved, That the Board hereby con-
ours in the following resolution Of the
Roard of Street and Water Commissioners
adopted November Is, 1897, to witt
Resolved, Thai the salary of the Re-
assessors appointed this day pc, ana "
Gable, Freeland, Giidea, Noonan. Fish,
Harmon, Sweeney and RoWe), provided the
term Of service of the said Reassessors
shall not exceed five months, from De-
cember /, 1887.
Received and ordered filed.
From the Corporation Counsel
In the matter of dedication of Sea View
avenue.
Received and ordered filed.
From the City Wharinger, Morgan
street dock
Submitting statements Of all moneys re-
ceived n expended from November !,
1897, to December /, 1887.
Received and ordered filed.
From Garwood Ferris and C. G. Yer
meule, water experts
In the matter Of part payment of salary
on account
Received and ordered filed.
From the Board of Police Commission
Transmitting communication from the
Hudson City Improvement Association in
the matter of the condition of Lineau
place.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Streets n Sewers.
REPORTS OF CHIEF ENGINEER.
The Chief Engineer reported certificates
Henry Byrne, s51. final, on account of
contract No. 9G9.
H. Cunningham, $T47.SS, final, on ac-
count of contract No. $40.
Refill & Edwards. 500, on account OF
contract No. 98S.
Sheridan & Shea Co., $500, on account of
Henry Byrne. s6s1.6O final, on of
contract No. 1000.
Refill & Edwards, $500, on account of
contract No. 1901.
w. H. Neil, s457. %, final, on account of
contract No 1,006.
Edward w. Conlon, $500, on account of
contract No. 1,011. Z
N. Y. Lubricating Oil Co., $108.16, on
account of contract No. LOIS.
N. Y. Lubrieating OH Co, ST. rs, on ac-
count of contract No. LOIS.
Frank J. Hall, $780, 20, on account of con-
tract No. 1,017.
Philip TuInulty, Jr., s7eS.O3, final, on ac-
count of contract No. 1,027.
Sheridan & Shea Co., 81, 200, on account
Of contract No. 1,05S.
Received and referred to their appro-
PIRATE committees.
From the same officer
To the Honorable the Board of Street
and Wafer
G-entlemen-I beg to submit to your
honorable body the following facts in re-
gard to the proposed reconstruction of
the trunk line sewer, in the jackson
avenue district, from BramhaH avenue to
C~ommunipaw avenue; thence through
C~ommunipaw avenue to Monticello ave-
nue.
This trunk line sewer, since its con-
struction, about 1870, has been incapable
of performing the duty required of it,
even in moderate storms of short dura-
ton. Surveys and levels recently taken
show that the said sewer, which is con-
structed of brick and is 36 inches in di-
ameter, has practically no fall between
Bramhall avenue and C~ommunipaw ave-
nue., and therefore always has been a
menace to the entire neighborhood en-
braced in its drainage district.
A contract is about to be entered into
by the city for charging and reconstruct
ing the said trunk line in Jack
son and C~ommunipaW avenues, between
Bramhall and Monticello n where
by the diameter of said sewer will be
increased from 36 inches to AZ inches, or
an even fall of about four-tenths of a
foot to every one hundred feet for the
entire distance. By this plan it was sup
posed that the defects heretofore set out
would be eliminated and the sewer as
reconstructed and enlarged would have
sufficient capacity and fall to carry away
all the sewage and the surface water
from the heaviest storm. This suppo
sition would be correct if the 42-inch
sewer was the only sewer to be con-
sfdered, but unfortunately it is not. AT
the Junction of Monticello avenue and
C~ommunipaw avenue, on the north, a So
inch sewer, with a drainage area of about
forty-five acres, joins the C~ommunipaW
avenue sewer, while from the south a
24-inch sewer, with o. small drainage
area, also joins the Communfpaw ave-
nue. sewer at the same point. To carry
his merging volume of sewage, aggre-
eating a total of &c, 500, 600 gallons per
day assuming the sewers to run two
thirds fulD. we have the present sewer
in Communipaw avenue, from Monticello
avenue to Crescent avenue, with an aver
age effective fall for about 200 feet OF
only one to two-tenths per hundred feet.
The capacity of this 4S-inch sewer, as
suming it to run two-thirds full, is about
Is. 000. 600 gallons. Thus We have an ag-
gregate merged volume of $500, 600 gall
Ions per day to be carried by a sewer
with a capacity of 5000, 600 gallons per
day. Therefore, in order to relieve the
4S-inch sewer in C-ommunipaw avenue and
properly QTalu the N1OItiCc1IO dNettuS
Sewerage district n still preserve the
contract about to be entered into as afore-
said, I recommend the following, wiz
The construction of a relief sewer in
Harrison ayenue, from Monticello ave
nue. to a point about 100 feet west of Park
street, said relief sewer to be connected
with the Monticello avenue sewer, both
north and south, and to connect with the
Communipaw avenue sewer in the south,
at the most suitable point as regards
fall. This plan will AXE directly from
the Communipaw avenue sewer the drain
age area of the Monticello venue dis
trict, amounting to about ,~forty-fiye acres
aforesaid, and will also relieve the jack
SON avenue and C-ommunipaW avenue
sewer by a 24-ineh relief sewer connection,
all as shown severally on plans herewith
submitted. ~.
1 have advised with City Attorney
Douglass as to the law under which this
relief sewer may be built, and he is of
the opinion tina it can be constructed UNI
der Chapter 211 of the Laws of 1895.
In connection with this communication,
| submit map and protiles embracing the
subject.
Yours respectfully.
[. D.. FOWLER.
Chief Engineer.
Received and referred to the Commit
tee on Streets and Sewers.
From the same officer
In relation to entertainments on Gill
christ street, between street
and Mil Creek.
Received and referred to the Corpora
ton Attorney.
From the same officer
To the Honorable the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners of Jersey
Gentlemen-I respectfully call the atten-
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