The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-10
SPECIFICATIONS o A SUPPLY OF FIJI
TERED WATER FOR JERSEY
CITY.

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The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City. by
the Board of Street and Water Commissioners
viii receive, proposals. for a supply Of filtered
of the Board, at the City Hall, Jersey City,
New Jersey, on the day
of 1898. at ten O'Clock A. M.
HOW DELIVERED.
The water must be delivered into the pres
ent pumping intake of the Jersey City Water
Works, opposite Bellevilie, 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
any unfiltered Passaic River water. Such gate
or gates shall be of such dimensions as not to
reduce the capacity of the present intake for
passing water to the pump wells. and when
erected they shall Immediately become the
property of the City and shall be under the ex-
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
water by the City. The pumping plant will be
operated by the City as near as possible at the
average rate of 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
envelope, to be endorsed Proposals for Filtered
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
| by which they propose to purify the water.
| CERTIFIED HEQUE TO ACCOMPANY BID.
AS an evidence of good faith each bidder will
dercsit one hundred thousand dollars in one of
the National Banks of Jersey City, or the New
and attach to his proposal a certified cheoue
for the amount, payable to the order of the
Treasurer of Jersey City, On award of the
successful bidders, and returned to the sue
cessful bidder on signing and delivery of the
cessful bidder to the use of the City in case
the contract is not signed within ten days aft
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
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ter under this contract, the contractor must
| furnish a new bond for five hundred thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of the
contract throughout its period, which bond is
to be in force 50 long as the City shall pur-
chase water of the contractor by the million
| gallons, but will be cancelled on completion
of a purchase of the plant by the City
FORM OF BOND.
The form of all bonds mentioned in this speci-
fcation shall be approved by the Corporation
DRAWING or CONTRACT.
The contract to carry into erect this Speci-
| foation shall be prepared by the Corporation
Attorney. with the approval of the Corporation
TERM OF CONTRACT.
If a contract is entered into it will run for
twenty-five years from the date of contract.
! unless sooner terminated by a purchase of the
water works by the City, as herein provided
MOUNT THE CITY AGREES TO TAKE.
The City will agree to take at least twenty
cM) million gallons of water pei. 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
wholesome for drinking and domestic purposes.
The number of bacteria per cubic centimeter
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-
| suit Of such publication any chemical or COM
pound Injurious to health, or Which will 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
shall not be OF the quality required by these
| specifications, the contractor shall only pc en-
| titled to compensation ak 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 speei-