The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-08
WATER AWARD TODAY.
Street and Water Board Will
Give the Contract to
P. H. Flynn.
EAST JERSEY TO GET $1,000, 900
City Will Be Protected From
Litigation Description
of the Plan.

The Street and Water Commissioners
viii hold an adjourned meeting this after
noon at four o'clock The object Of the
session is TO award the water contract to
p. H. Flynn.
Within the last month several meetings
have been called for the purpose of maxi
ing an award. but each time something
has occurred to cause a postponement Of
definite action. The Finance Commission
ers have time and time again refused to
concur in an award unless evidence was
given them that the East Jersey Water
Company would not tie UP the whole mat
ter in the courts.
The plant of Flynn. which it is proposed
to acquire, touches, it is said some ter
ratory of the East Jersey Company in
which its rights are absolute. 1t was
deemed unwise, therefore, TO make an
award until such time as Flynn could
produce papers showing that he had set
tied all possibilities of litigation with the
East Jersey Company.
At noon today 1t was announced that
Flynn had made all the necessary ar
rangenents. It is said Flynn is to pay
the East Jersey Company $i,5Oo.0e0 for its
water rights. The agreement papers have
been carefully examined and, it is said,
that under them the city is assured every
possible protection.
The resolutions of award cover four
typewritten pages. They were drawn by
Clerk Bouton, and have been passed upon.
as to Legality, by Corporation Counsel
McDermott. Unless something unfore-
seen happens. the award will be made to-
day. The vote in the Street and Water
Board viii be unanimous.
The Finance Board meets tonight, and
it is quite likely that the award will be
coneurred in. The vote will doubtless be
to ]. Mr. Simpson viii vote in the
negative.
!. Mayor Hoos is the only uncertain guam
tity IN the plan to acquire the Flynn
plant. The Mayor positively declines te
discuss the subject. There is a belief
that he will take lots of time before act
ing.
The plan favored by the officials is
known as plan No. l. Under it a daily
supply of 5oO0O,0O0 gallons is assured as
soon as the plan is completed. A strong
feature of the proposition is that while
only 50 O00,000 gallons day are pledged
the company gives the city sufficient
drainage area and storage reservoirs to
insure a daily supply of 7O,00o0oO gallons
| whenever the city may desire to acquire
that quantity. IT the city buys within
/. one year of the date of completion the
! price IS $685. 600, and S7,ss5000 if acquisi-
ton IS made five, Ten or fifteen years af-
| ter completion. For the same plant as
No / the Flynn concern asked $S. i45,0o0,
should the plant be capable Of delivering
20, 100000 gallons a day when completed.
During the term which Flynn and his as
sociation will retain the plant the city
will pay Ss6 a million gallons for all water
used up to 25,0OO,Oo0 gallons day; S32 ar
| to 80 COG 900 gallons a day; S24 up to 35,o90,-
| 900 gallons a day. and $40 for all water
| up TO 45,000Oe0 gallons. and up to the en-
tire capacity of the plant
plan No. l. as offered by Flynn, sives
| the city 5Oo00, 600 gallons a day, with the
Hands, reservoir sites, water rights and
easements necessary to enable the city tc
/ divert and use T0Oe0,0e0 gallons day. The
water is TO be taken from the Rockaway
River watershed with the main intake To-
| Gated on the Rockaway River at old
| Boonton. This intake reservoir which
! will also serve as a storage reservoir, will
! have an area of 949 acres, maximum
! depth of 1902 feet at the dam, and more
| than q. per cent of the whole area of The
reservoir viii exceed feet in depth.
1t will have a capacity above the effiu-
/ ent pipes Of. 1862 million gallons; an eleva-
ton at the floor line of 292 feet above
mean high tide The elevation Of the ef-
fuent pipes will be 256 feet.
The dam at the outlet of the reservoir
win be OF masonry, 105 feet in height,
exclusive of the foundation, and will be
constructed and equipped according to
! the most modern methods. There will be
tributary to the intake the entire flow OF
the Rockaway River, having water
! shed and gathering grounds of l22la
| square miles, including the waters of the
Longwood Valley, Green Pond, Denmark
Lake, Beach Glen, Split Rock Lake, Dix
! on's Pond, Shongum Lake and other
tributary streams.
To supply only 50,OOO,0oo gallons a day
/ this one reservoir at Old Boonton will be
ali that is required The water will be
conveyed by gravity from the intake
! through a single steel conduit of I6 inches
| inside diameter to Hook Mountain,
/ through Hook Mountain by tunnel
! brick lined, having an inside diameter OF
Z feet; thence by a single steel conduit
| of rs inches diameter to Watching Noun
1 tain, through a brick lined tunnei thence
! into single conduit to the reservoirs AZ
4 High Service. The water Will be deliver
| ed at High Service at a head OF 2lo feet
/ above mean high tide.
The whole quantity of drainage area
/ which Flynn offers is 1,242 acres. The
! works are so constructed by Flynn that
he can at any time enlarge it by raising
| the reservoir dam so as to give the city
| 70. 600, 600 gallons day or more. TO give
a supply of 70,000000 gallons a day or
/ more ii would be necessary to lay an adj
1 ditional main. That could be done az
| slight cost, inasmuch as there is room for
! two conduits on the right Of way which
/ Flynn gives the city.