The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-28
A GIGANTIC WORK.
Elaborate and Costly 0per-
atoms by the East Jer-
sey at Little Falls.
RIVER DIVERTED FROM ITS BED
A Great Reservoir for Paterson and
Jersey eCity's Supplemental
Supply-To Gain Power
for Pumping.
RIVER DIVERTED FROM IT'S BED


At the Office of the East Jersey Water
Company, at No. 2 Wall street, New York,
it was admitted Saturday that the COM
pany proposes to build a reservoir at
Great Notch, to be used solely for dis
tributing purposes. in connection with the
new plant at Little Falls. Chief Engineer
Clemens Herschei said that he could not
tell when work on the new reservoir
would be begun, nor could he say what
its capacity would be. The exact loca-
ton Of the reservoir had not yet been de-
ermined upon, and, consequently, no sur
veying had been done. The whole energy
of the c~ompany's officials was at present
expended in the building of the great
canal auxiliary to the pumping station at
Little Falls.
The plant at present building at Little
Falls, Mr.. Herschel said, would nave a
pumping capacity of 30.000,eo gallons a
day, one pump having a capacity OF ~
COL, 600 gallons, and the only other pump
contracted for. having a power OF 2o,oVo,-
900 gallons. There will be room for an
other pump, but it has not at present been
contracted for. The daily flow of the
I average OF 5UU, zoo, 600 gallons.
The work ait Little Falls has long been
contemplated, as also has the buiiolng OF
a reservoir at Great Notcn. The east
| Jersey Water mpan has owned lana
at Great Notch for ten years, and pur-
chased it solely for reservoir purposes.
Last June the nrst work on the new plant
was begun when the laying OF the Iofty-
tWo-incn steel main from Paterson 70
Little Falls was undertaken. Ii was not
a little task, and nye months We're con-
sumed in the work. AS soon as it was
completed the plans for the pumping sta
ton to be erected below the place where
the Little Fans used to be, were tackled
by tine contractors. and the machinery
for the work was set up. On November l
the work was praoeicatly begun.
A glance at The country TO the north OF
the river, where the cut made by the
companyfs contractors is daily growing
in depth, viii show the gigantic nature OF
the Undertaking. The tniil surface OF soil
covers a rock Of a Consciousness akin to
iron. There were depressions to be filed
in, solid rock to be cut through, a canal
to be interseeted, a fume and steel pipe
to be temporarily erected to take its
place, and a wall to be built to prevent
the caving in of the canal to the north
Of the new cut for a distance OF over So
feet.
The company owns the property through
which the cut is being made. Il has also
purchased the water tower rights from
The Beatty Company, owning a woollen
mill just above the falls. To economize
a store quarry was opened on the proper
ty below where the power house is to be
built, and there operated by the most i'm
proved machinery, handle by men of ex-
perience. is perhaps the largest plant OF
the kind in the State. From this quarry
all the rock necessary for the walls in
the cut, and for the power house will be
secured; also for the dam and the gate
house to be located to the northwest OF
the present dam from which the Beatty
mills secured their power. 1t is claimed
at present that the work is not half COM
/ pleted.
The principal engineering work is the
cutting of the waterway from the river
above the Beatty dam to below the aaue-
/ lL.aA 4. ~ y TArrf a. - nyr1r Z he
river his waterway will be l,SW feet
iong from iiltahe " p9Wer-nouss, anu 81 :.
~ feet Wlde uniformly. II VIII NOT pc
straight; but IN wavg outline making e the ne
Woih dil .lle i5o!S ulnlcul.. op"siu =
Lwsnty SlsaMt u.ias aiS @oihdus "a ~
ped o. tng gu ana every uay y tooii any
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are exploaSu. -
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55espp,gstssd Tha greo+est nraca,Itior is nen-
assarv and acc7dents are Of freal1ant &c
eurrence. There are employed on an
average 000 men including fhe engineers
and their sssjsfanfs Italians are doing
the roughest work. There is a night
SHIFT and a day sniff.
The place where the intake is 70 be has
not been touched by the men for several
DAYS. a Temporary dam was erected
there and excavations to a depth Of ten
l feet were made. The work there is NOT of
the most dificult natur. Progress was
made along the lines laid dawn nv the
engineers and from ahouf fairy feet he
low the intake to the snot vhere The
bridge crossed the Morris Canal steam
drills fiji the mace with steam as eIided
bv experierced hands. they nrenare fhe
way for the rending dvnaInjte The force
in charge Of the explosives is never ;die
and is ready TO resnond AT anv firna2to j
call for work. IF is AZ this frst narf
where the great stone wall 10 nrotect The
Morris Canal Is 10 he erected This wall
is already ahoIt six feet hierh r. will he
Of enduring olalitys as IN fact viii he
all of the work.
To tbe east oe the br;dee erd ~ +ba
south If the new cut a drv yva1i has beno
erected to protect the wafervav from
hanks AZ earth Much filino in bad ~
he done from the river bridoa at tbe
Beatty mills 10 the canal bridge easf and
west the greatest .lenfh flied hainp aiebt
feet The filing has heen If sto1ea Pafc1,
the drv wall there win 10 rau,,lor go
sjve masonry excenfine where Tho natn-
raj wall NAV he eonsidered eafe
East Of the hri9ue in inc oaw wa+ar
wav the fo1ndafion for the Nnrr;s GanaI
Is raniIlv nearing eaTnniatjon ~ aan4
narad with tha nld ac,,aGsct Il Iii ~ Anf
ren,a ria Mo soIidity Mo aro 4 - - y -
siva granife brown SONS ga br;er sarn,
fba f0nndation FOR tha nonoi Tt;s fain
dation ;s 1ao faet ,on@ and 90 faa] ~
rhe arcbas ara asch IL faat xusaa ~ 10 20
foot Hob Tbo NarrEs ~ = u iole
arossae tb,s nisoa thro7,aI = p.ssene
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