The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-15
SPECIFICATIONS FOR A SUPPLY OF FIJI
TERED WATER FOR JERSEY
CITY.

The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City, by
the Board of Street and Water Commissioners
water based on this specification. at the office
of the Board, at the City Hall, Jersey. City,
New Jersey, on the day
of 1898. at ten O'Clock A. NJ.
o DELIVERED.
The water must be delivered into the pres
ent pumping intake of the Jersey City Water
Works. opposite Belleville, so that it will flow
to the present pump wells. At the screen
house, in the intake, a bulkhead provided with
a gate or gates shall be erected so as to cut
off and entirely exclude from the pump wells
any unfltered Passaic River water. Such gate
reduce the capacity of the present intake for
passing water to the pump wells, and when
erected they shall Immediately become the
elusive control of the city. The contractor.
however. must maintain such gate or gates and
bulkhead in perfect order and condition.
CAPACITY OF WORKS
The capacity of the fltering plant when first
constructed shall be 40 million gallons daily.
and it shall be increased from time to time so
as to be at all times 20 per cent. in excess of
the greatest monthly average consumption of
operated by the City as near as possible at the
average rate of consumption for any given
that rate must be allowed for by the contractor
and the water must be delivered as needed
by the City within these limits.
= GENERAL CONDITIONS.
The City reserves the right to reject any or
all bids made by virtue. Of this specification;
fixed by the advertisement.
Proposals must be made on blank forms to
be obtained at the office of the Chief Engineer,
and must be delivered in open meeting, and
when called for, to the Clerk of the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners, in a sealed
Water for Jersey CITY, N. j.
Prices must be stated in figures and writing.
Any proposal under this specification which
does not comply with all its requirements will
be deemed informal and rejected.
Bidders must submit and annex as a requisite
to their proposal such descriptions, plans and
drawings as may be necessary to make clear
the essential features of the works; proposed to
be built. and must fully describe the method
Nv which they propose to purify the wafer.
CERTIFIED CHEQUE TO ACCOMPANY BID.
AS an evidence of good faith each bidder viii
dercsits one hundred thousand dollars in one of
the National Banks of Jersey City, or the New
Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
for the amount, payable to the order of the
Treasurer of Jersey City. On award of the
contract such cheque viii be returned to. un-
successful bidders, and returned to the sue
cessful bidder on signing and delivery of the
contract. but will be forfeited by the sue
cessful bidder to the use of the City in case
the contract is not signed within ten days af-
ter it is ready for execution on part of said con-
tractor. Said cheque shall be in lieu of free
holder security.
The contractor must furnish a bond of five
hundred thousand dollars, the security to be
subject to approval according to law, for the
performance of the contract up to the date of
acceptance of water supply hereunder, at
which time and upon the delivery to the City
of the bond hereinafter provided for. this bond
is to be cancelled. Upon the acceptance of wa
ter under this contract. the contractor must
furnish a new bond for Ave hundred thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of the
contract throughout its period, which bond is
70 be IN force SO long as the City shall pur-
chase water Of the contractor by the million
gallons, but will be cancelled on completion
FORM OF BOND.
The form of all bonds mentioned in this speci-
deati5n shall be approved by the Corporation
DRAWING OF CONTRACT.
The contract to carry into effect this speci-
fication shall be prepared by the Corporation
FERN OF CONTRACT.
y .an : Years from the date Of contract
unless sooner terminated by a purchase of the
water works by the City, as herein provided
AMOUNT THE I AGREES TO TAKE.
The City win agree to take at least twenty
COZ million gallons of water per day, and To
take its whole supply of water from the con-
tractor during the term of contract.
QUALITY OF
The water to be furnished shall be pure and
vvholesome for drinking and domestic purposes.
The number of bacteria per cubic centimeter
shalt not exceed five hundred at any time. and
the average of weekly determinations through
out the year shall not exceed one hundred and
fifty per cubic centimeter.
The purified water shall not contain as a re-
pound injurious to health, or which viii attack
the water pipes, steam boilers, or otherwise
render the water unsuitable for the purposes
to which the City water is applied.
All odor, color and suspended impurities
shall be removed. In case the water delivered
specifications. the contractor snail only be en-
titled to compensation at one-half the contract
prices so long as water deficient In quality
shall be delivered. and in case the water is not
restored to the quality required by these speci-
~ffcations within one week after notice mas been
the qualify is defective, then the City may re-