The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-20
FIRST GREAT, THEN LITTLE FALLS
The New Arrangement Enables the
Company to Make Its Great Dicher
with the Greater New York.

AS foreshadowed in 1.-THE Jersey City
News" yesterday, there was trouble in
firmation of the new temporary water
contract.
The ball was set rolling Immediately
after Clerk George T. Bouton read the
following proposition from the city to the
East Jersey Water Company
This agreement made this nineteenth
day of April, eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven, between the Mayor and
Aldermen of Jersey City, a municipal cor
poration of the State of New Jersey,
party of the first part, hereinafter called
tha city and the East Jersey Water
Company corporation of the State OF
New Jersey, party of the second part,
hereinafter called the company, is sup
Elemental to the agreement between the
same parties made the twelfth day OF
October, eighteen hundred and ninety-fiye,
and witnesseth as followS:-
Whereas. The company has been fur
nishing to the city Pequannock water,
under said original contract, from Janu-
ary tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety
six, until the present time, and has en-
larged its Peauannock works by adding
another water main thereto, and for
several months past has been furnishing
to the city supply of water for all
purposes anu Is lOM supplying tAC oeLC,
And Whereas, 1t is apparent that the
full amount of water available from the
Pequannock works, after supplying the
other municipalities and consumers who
had, at the date of the said original con-
tract between the parties hereto, dated
october IL, 1895. the paramount right to
draw thereon, will soon be insufficient for
complete supply for Jersey City,
And Whereas, The said city is desirous
to obtain full and complete supply from
the company of pure and wholesome
water SO that the necessity of thereafter
pumping water at Belleville will be en-
tirely obyiated,
Now Therefore 1t is agreed between
said parties hereto as follows:-
First-The company agrees that it will
A forthwith proceed to- construct and with
din 1S0 days from the delivery of this con-
Nract, will complete and put in use works
flor the supplying to the city of additional
water so that thereafter, until the ex-
piration of this contract, the city shall
have full and sufficient supply for all
its requirements. Such additional water
shall be taken from the Passaic River
above the Great Falls, thereon, and de-
livered through mains now or hereafter
controlled by the company, into the city's
mains. with the Pequannock water
at the corner of Kearny and Belleville
avenues, Bergen county, New jersey as
provided in said contract of October H.
1885, or into the city's mains or pipes at
some point east thereof or at both places
at head and pressure sufficient to en-
able the city with its present mains to
Hegss saoa gRpy on n Bergen gen
walton of 2l0 feet, and quarters
thereof at an elevation of LII feet above
its M own aene mains els nd nne fsr
works. are completed, the water to be
furnished by the company to the city
shah all be either Pequannock water, as
at present, or water taken from the Pas
sale River above Great Falls as aforesaid
or both, and the company agrees on its
h0f xrrtlI 1r-orr
mock works until September "a, 1900, the
1aili,dn dnn annual average quantity of fifty
is supplied. for the use of the city and
the company's other customers. It is
agreed that if the company shall fail to
have said works above first mentioned In
use at the expiration of said 160 days, or
such extension thereof as is mentioned in
gp paragraph eight, it shall. as a penalty,
pumping required at the citys pumping
station in Union Township, Bergen coun-
e, n; e;t j., ,3,, TO make & up full supply for
and in use, the city giving the company
possession Of said pumping station for
eity's engineer, and the company to re-
hnquish the possession when said new
works are in use. leaving said station in
good order, reasonable. wear and tear
expected. 1t is agreed that the company
snail draw no water from its Pequannock
mains for use in Paterson. except it be
its supply exclusively Of Pequannockk ann15tk
water. It is also agreed that the com
pany h shall supply no customers other
L. 1895, from its Peq,'annock main No i.
and all surplus available water in that
: River in the main through which the the
water Is delivered to Jersey City
Second-Said company will, within
eighteen months from the date of the de-
livery hereof. establish and complete
works for the taking of water from the
Passaic River at or near Little Falls,
and after said works are completed and
ready for use all the waters thereafter
furnished to the city under this contract
shall be from the Pequannock works as
above provided, or from Little Falls, or
from both, the company agreeing to still
continue until September "a, 1900, and not
thereafters to draw from the Pequannock
works said full annual average quantity
of fifty million gallons per day, through
its two existing MAINS through which
the city is supplied
Third-The city, on its part In con-
sideration of the premises. and of the
other matters stated in this contract.
agrees to take it's entire supply of water
from the company, subject, however, to
the city's right a to terminate, prior to
September "a. 1900, the said contract OF
October IL. 1885, by giving three months
notice. as therein provided. and such ter
nination shall also terminate this con-
tract
Fourth-The city agrees, at the time OF
the delivery hereof, to pay the company s
four bills heretofore rendered for water,
deducting, however, therefrom, the sum
Of SO, 28S being the amount charged
for water rendered and not accepted,
So. CO.
Fffth-It is mutually agreed that from
and after March 81. 1897, the price to be
& ra1d for the water Shall be at the follow
. deg rates. and no more which shall be
&pzid by the city and accepted by the
eompany II full satisfaction thereof. in