The Jersey City news., 1898-08-26


This dam will be OF masonry, sixty tag1
feet high. including foundation, ara WIZ VII
! be constructed and equipped as requlren
I by the specifications. This reservoir wltA
be 50 constructed and operated as - pssfe e
nit at least seven million gallons p
! water 70 flow naturally every DAY ifto
| the stream below the dam.
This storage reservoir Is shown on Maps
Nos and 4. The dam Is marked lam
| No on Maps Nos 8 and 4.
From the intake at Old Boonton Res-
| eryoir. deseribedsin this plan, the water
! will be conveyed by gravity along tn0
route shown generally upon Map No. 3.
upon . right Of way as required by Inc
specifications by a single steel pipe COT
duit of seventy-six (le) inches ins1ae az
ameteF to Hook Mountain; thence lnrocen
| Hook Mountain by a tunnel orlck hneet
having an inside diameter equal 10 o-oS
feet. thence by a single steel eondult oI
| enty-six (76) inches inside diameter lo
Watching M0unt&ins thence through
Watching Mountain by a tunnel brick
lined, having an inside diameter equAi
to 6.S5 feet; thence by single sleel 81 eon- ,-
ter, into Bergen reservoir where the wa
| ters to the extent of fifty million gauons
| daily will be delivered with pressuis
equal to a head of 2i0 feet above mean
| high tide All of the above conduits ana
tunnels are shown on Map annexed; tnS
profiles ard hydraulic gradients q sss11 sla
c0nduitS and tunnels are SHOWN Oh Pto@sio
| No 2 annexed.
The water proposed to be furnished is
| pure and wholesome; the plan mas peen
! prepared so as TO prevent all contamlna-
ton thereof from any source, in accord
anee with the specifications
This plan contemplated the acqulrement
of lands, reservoir sites, water Ile1ls
and easements necessary to enable the
| city to divert and use seventy (79} million
gallons or water daily.
In order to provide for the increased
vided the plan Includes the immediate
| requirement Of the additional lands re-
quired for such reservoir sites, and the
enlargement Of the intake reservoir az
| hereinafter mentioned.
Whenever during the term of the con-
tract, as provided in the specifications,
the city shall notify the contractor 70 in
crease the capacity of his water Workss
/ then Ii is proposed to Increase the Old
| Boonton Reservoir above described by
raising the dam and increasing the ca
pacity thereof and also by adding an
additional storage reservoir in Beach Glen
as hereinafter provided. No change will
be required in the Longwood Valley res
ervoir. The dam in the Old Boonton
| flow line thereof will be at an elevation
| of 297 feet; the area of said reservoir at
acres. The maximum depth thereof wil
be eighty-seven $50 feet and more than
seyenty-five tI5l per cent OF the area
thereof will exceed eight (S( feet In depth
at the full water level 1t viii then have
capacity above the effluent pipes Of
| 3,059 million gallons and an elevation ut
the flow line of 2s7 feet above mean high
TIDE. and the elevation of the effiuent
pipes Will be 260 feet
The dam will be of masonry ninety-two
t92l feet high, exclusive of foundation; It
will be constructed and equipped as re-
quired by the specifications, and is mark
ed dam No. 3. and shown on maps Nos.
s and A.
An additional storage reservoir win be
constructed for the seventy million gall
Ions supply in Beach Glen. north OF the
Roekaway River; it will have an area
Of go acres an elevation at the flow line
eight (28) feet and seventy-ffve (75) per
cent Of the area thereof will exceed eight
% feet In depth at the full water teyel.
million gallons Of water.
There will be tributary to this storage
miles. The main dam for this reservoir
on maps Nos. 9 and 8 and viii
crete core. it will be thrty-one (sll
feet in height above foundation, and be
constructed and equipped as REQUIRED BY
ed with this reservoir, is shown on maps
Nos. 8 and 4, and will be of earth eIn-
nineteen Q9) feet in height above foun-
dation and be constructed and equipped
as required by the specifications.
voir above described there viii be con
structed an additional steel pipe conduit
along the route as shown generally on
..
fore acquired, capable of delivering .hir-
ty 800 million gallons daily into the Ber-
gen reservoir at an elevation OF l27 feet
the pipe first above described. il csnnec-
tion with the tunnels. will enable the
sontraeter to dslysg ssyentg g GO million
(63) inches inside diameterfro Old Boon
nect re . with f10N she tunnel hsrenSefors IS men
toned; from the tunnel at Hook Noun
tain to the tunnel at Watching Noun
tain It will be sixty-three t69 inches inside
diameter, connecting with the tunnel here
inbefore mentioned through Watching
Mountain. From the tunnel at Watehung
forty-seven (4T) inches inside diameter 70
Bergen reservoir where 1t Will deliver the
water with a pressure equal to head Qf
above conduits and tunnels will be can
structed and equipped as required py the
specifications. The route of the last above
conduit is shown on map No. annexed
The profile and hydraulic gradients of
said eonduts and tunnels are shown on
profile No 2.
The right is reserved subject to the
approval of the engineer of the oity to
substitute at the crossings of the Hack
ensack, Passaic and Rockaway Rivers,
for each single steel conduit, two or more
cast iron pipes of approved strength ard
material, having q combined capacity
equal to the steel eonduits for which they
may be substituted.
In the foregoing description the phrase
elevation means height above mean
high tide.
| herewith submit and annex the fol-
lowing preliminary plans, maps and pro-
files necessary to make clear the essential
features of the works proposed to be
built.
Map No. 3.
Map No. 4.
Profile NO. 2.
PATRICK H FLYNN,
1S9 Montague street.
Borough of Brooklyn,
New York City, N. Y.
PROPOSAL FOR A NEW WATER sup
PLY FOR JERSEY CITY, N. J.
PLAN No. g.
Made by Patrick II. Flynn.
Residence or Office. 1S9 Montague street.
Borough of Brooklyn, New York City,
N. Y
Date, August IS, 1898.
To the Board of Street and Water Conn
missioners of Jersey City. New jersey
Gentlemen-I hereby propose to provide
a new supply of water to Jersey City
New Jersey, and produce the results re-
quired in the plan and specifications pre-
ceding. attached to and made part of
this proposal. except as to the delivery of
water at High Service, for the following
prices
For each million gallons of water fur
nshed up to twenty-five {25} million gall
Ions daily up to thirty (30) million gallons
daily. thirty-five dollars 500 per mill
ion gallons.
For each million gallons in excess Of
twenty-five {25) million gallons daily up