The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-17
LYONS & zEIGLER,
464 Bergen Ave-,
coo Newark Ave.,
ISIS jackson Ave-,

it was pointed out that not only a natural
watershed, but it had a feeder, the Men
den brook.
From this place the visitors were driven
to Stony Brook. which, when Mr.. Flynn
throws a 33-foot dam across it, will then
as a gathering ground be able to store
1,s1o, O0o,0 900 gallons of water, and which
reservoir. Mr.. Flynn claims, cannot un-
der any circumstances be affected by
sources of pollution. The supply at this
point falls by gravity into the river, ana
then on to the intake.
Split Rock Pond, the favorite fishing
resort of Attorney General Griggs and
Vice President Hobart and other big folk
of that political ilk, was next visited.
This charming little lake, nesting in
the arms of the tree-clad hills, Will pc
an adjunct overflow. The East Jersey
Water Company controls it, but the over
flow, which is a pretty big stream. cannot
be diverted. and it leaps over the dam,
PUSHES over the lichen-covered gray rocks,
eddies and swirls past the crumbling ruins
of old FORCES, as if conscious of its free
dom. and rushes along to swell the wa
tiers of the Rockaway River.
From this point the water investiga-
tors drove to the ever-famous Beach
Glen. included in almost every water plan
for its natural advantages as a big stor-
age reservoir, or gathering point. Mr..
Flynn's agents on both sides of the valley
had planted American flags to mark the
flow line when the dams have been built
and the present place submerged. On one
side of the glen leading to the H1Dernla
mines is a railroad 1900 feet in length,
which has not been used for some time,
and which will be removed when the con-
tractor begins the construction OF the
huge reservoirs. From this railroad TO
the opposite knobs, away west to the
town of Rockaway, will stretch a noble
lake of pure water, containing at least
!. TAO. 900. 900, with a flow line of 542 feet, a
maximum depth of 81 feet. To secure this,
roads and houses will be wiped out. a few
patches of trees and peat must be dug
I'D and the railroad, as mentioned before,
which has no legal right of way, removed
back.
Mr.. Flynn's representative pointed out
the beauties of the place and its excel
lence as a storage reservoir. He showed
that contamination could not reach that
water because all the very houses in the
glen would be wiped out and the soii Wa.
in the right condition for water. The
owners of the land, he said, were willing
to sell and there would be 40 trouble in
building the dams and flooding all tnat
vast area of 1000 acres.
Ry this time the commissary wagon
came up and for the next hour water was
not discussed, excepting in a very diluted
sense. The keen mountain air had sharp
ened everybody's appetite, and the good
things disappeared so rapidly that one
would nave thought they possessed wings
and had flown in desperation down the
hungry party's threats.
can aboard impatiently exclaimed
Commissioners James s. Nolan, who for
the life of him couldn't understand why
people should want to waste time on SAT-
ing and drinking when the more attrac-
tive subject of watersheds and dam sites
demanded attentions There was no help
for it, the visitors got into the carriages
and drove to a small hill to the western
end of the glen to hear more about its
advantages as a gathering ground. 1t is
pr6posed. said Mr.. Flynn's representa-
tive. to put a feeder pipe into the reser-
sra;,s erom q no;n+ on the Reckaway River.
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