The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

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the crossings of the Hackensack and Pas
sale Rivers for the single steel conduit,
two or more cast iron pipes of approved
strength and material. having a combined
capacity equal to such additional single
steel conduit.
The water proposed to be furnished I'M
der the increased plan will be pure and
wholesome, and the plan has been pre-
pared with a view of preventing all con-
tamination thereof from any source in
accordance with the specifications.
l herewith present the following pre-
! liminary maps and profiles showing the
plan of the works proposed as aforesaid.
Map No. 3.
Map No. A.
Profile No. A.
Profile Nc. 5.
PATRICK H. FLYNN,
1879 Montague Street.
Borough Of Brooklyn,
New York, n. Y.
Messrs. O'Brien. Sheehan. Mclean and
Rodgers presented five % proposals.
Bids No. 4 and 5 were rejected as il-
formal.
(See record of meeting after recess.)
suPPIY FOR JERSEY s6 cry. Y" n. ].
Made by O'Brien, Sheehan, Mclean &
fRodgers.
Date February %. 1898.
To the Board of Street and Water Com
Gentlemen-We, O'Brien, Sheehan, Nc
Bean & Rodgers. hereby propose to pro-
vide a new supply. of water to Jersey
suits required in Plan A and the specifl-
cations preceding. attached to and made
a part of this proposal, for the following
For each million gallons of water fur
nished up to twenty GOD million gallons
daily. sixty-ive dollars $3.50 per million
gallons
For each million gallons in excess of
twenty .{2O million gallons daily up to
forty dollars $40 per million gallons.
For each million gallons in excess of
twenty-five l25) million gallons daily up to
thirty-fve (35) million gallons daily, forty
dollars ($4W per million gallons.
For each million gallons in excess of
thirty-fve tS5l million gallons daily VI. to
forty-five (45) million gallons daily,
t~hirty-fve dollars $3.50 per million gal
Ions.
For each million gallons in excess of
fortyefive 90 million gallons daily up to
the limit of capacity of the water works,
thirty dollars (s3O per million gallons.
For the water. works. water supply,
water rights, lands, rights of way and all
| appurtenances and necessary
to fulfill the requirements of these speci-
f Il to the extent Of fifty go million
| chase can be made by the City when the
water works are completed and accepted
hereunder, provided that the City shall
within one year after the date of contract,
the sum of eleven million dollars ($11 ,000,-
000).
For the water works, water supply,
water rights, lands, rights of way and all
a-ppurtenances and necessary
to fulfill the requirements of these speei-
f~ications to the extent of fifty (5W million
| gallons of water daily forever, which pur-
chase can be made by the City at the ex-
years from the date of contract, pro-
vided that the City shall give notice of
its intention to purchase at least one year
in advance of such purchase, the sum of
eleven million nine hundred thousand
dollars (s11. 800, 000).
We. OsBrien, Sheehan. Mclean & Rod
gers, herewith offer a certified cheque for
one hundred thousand dollars (sl00, 000).
on the Hudson County National Bank of
Treasurer 1ggsey cry 81 pJt jersey CITY sR .h as o an ev ID e nee
of good faith, which cheque is in lieu of
freebooter security.
We, O'Brien, Sheehan, Mclean & Rod
gers, herewith submit and annex to this
proposal the plans, general drawings, ETC.,
enumerated below. and in addition there
the. works proposed to be built and the
sources of the supply proposed to be fur
nished.
hereto annexed the bidder must sign name
in full and Post Office address. In case
an individual signs for a corporation
proper authority must the
proposal
o'BRIEMN,s ssHEEHAN, MCLEAN &
2S Broadway, New York City.
JOHN C. SHEEHAN,
DUNCAN p, MCLEAN,
BID NO. UNDER PLAN A.
SUPPLY FROM RARITAN RIVER
HEAD WATERS.
The works will consist of a large stor-
age reservoir at Roxiticus, on the North
Branch of the Raritan, a tunnel thence
to Naughright. on the South Branch of
the Raritan, which tunnel will divert into
Roxiticus Reservoir the waters of Black
River at Chester Furnace. and those at
collecting water shed, and a conduit part
" of steel pipe and partly of tunnel, from
Roxiticus Reservoir to Jersey City.
Roxiticus Reservoir will have an area
of $40 acres at high water level, which is
at 455 feet elevations; of 269 acres at low
water level which is at 400 feet elevation,
and 50 per cent. of its area will have a
depth exceeding ten feet when the reser-
voir is full.
The dam will be LOO feet long and 115
feet high and will be built of rubble ma
sonry facing and concrete core. The ca
naclty OF the reservoir will be $3.50. 900, 0G0
arranged SO that water may be drawn
from either 400 feet, 425 feet or $50 feet
elevation.
From the gate house eastward the con-
duit will consist first of a tunnel of TWEEN
ty thousand (20,000) feet long, of a horse
shoe-shapcd section, equivalent to a cir
Gle seven % feet in diameter inside of
the lining, and having a hydraulic gradf-
ent of one foot fall in five thousand feet
length.
From the gate house at the eastern
portal Of the tunnel there will be a riv-
! cited steel pipe of sixty-two 62) inches
internal diameter, and forty-four thou
sane t4,G0O feet long. extending to a
tunnel one thousand Q,G0O feet long,
through Long Hill, near Stanley. From
the eastern portal and gate house of inns
tunnel there will be a steel pipe of sixty
two f2) inches inner diameter and thir-
teen thousand five hundred Gs. 5cu) rect
long. reaching to a tunnel through Sec
ond Mountain. near Summit This tunnel
will be two thousand five hundred t2.5o0)
feet long All Of the foregoing tunnels
will be seven % feet internal diameter,
and Rave q hydraulic slope Of one in
five thousand. All of the steel pipe above
described will be of sixty-two (62) inches
internal dis meter and have a hydraulic
slope of one in one thousand.
From the eastern portal of the tunnel at
Summit a pipe of riveted steel, sixty GOD
inches in diameter. will extend to Bergen
Reservoirs continuously. excepting across
Newark Bay.
sand (S2,00Q feet long and have q hy-