The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05

feet higher elevation. The tributary wa
ter shed is 3.53 square miles. h .uI
water level Of the Reservoir will be about
or r draught line, at 565 feet elevation.
level Will be about Us acres. and the sa9r-
age capacity. $40 million gallons. The
depth of water at dam will be about 20
feet, and the average depth about -
Not more than 25 per cent. of the area
at full water level will be less than eight
feet deep.
The total storage as above contem-
plated, without exceeding the limitation
of IT'S million per square miles of tribu-
~ - Million
gallons.
Longwood Valley .....-....."... 1870
Beach Glenn ..........r 4.S5gV'
! Rockaway Valley ............... 1.25O
Total ........... ............... lo-0S4
CONDUIT LINE.
An intake reservoir or basin with an
area of about ten acres at full water lev
ell, and with surface at about 612 eleVa-
ton, and draught line at sos feet eleva-
ton and a capacity of about 80 Inlllon
gallons, will be built at the confluence OF,
the Rockaway River and Green Pond or
Burnt Meadow Brook, about one-naii
mile below Port Dram. and equipped with
gates, gate houses and all appurtenances.
Tributary to this intake will be the up
per RockaWay Valley. area. 29.9 SQUARE
miles. with Longwood storage of $500
million gallons, and "a square miles OF
low Denmark-Pond. From this intake a
conduit with capacity of 80 million gallons
per day will be carried eastward. This
livery to be drawn from this territory.
This conduit will consist Off
About 1888 feet of "a inch steel pipe
with an hydraulic grade of 5.54 feet per
About 1,756 feet of brick or cement lined
circular tunnel 81 inches in diameter, with
hydraulic grade of 5.3 feet per mile ana
capable of conveying 80 million gallons
per day below a line one foot below the
inside of the crown of the arch.
About 7.I62 feet of 45-inch steel pipe,
with an hydraulic grade of 1886 feet per
About 1o.9ao feet of sS-inch steel pipe,
with an hydraulic grade of 3l.64 per mile,
to outlet of Beach Glen Reservoir.
At this point, a connection made up OF
4S-inch steel pipe, will connect the gates
at Beach Glen dam with the main. Pip
line adding a tributary 1ta y ,1 feoritopXl on o. s5 SGl
age, and from this junction The CONDUIT
will have a capacity of 80 million gallons
ton to the head Of Boonton Falls, will
have a diameter of 60 inches, ana run on
an hydraulic grade Of 10 feet per mile.
At Powerville this isl pipe s,n VIII be 19 f1om
Rockaway Valley Reservoir, and contrlo
buting the water from the area of l2.13
square miles, with 1857 million gallons
From the head of Boonton Falls a line
of 60-inch riveted steel pipe, with an ny,
draulic gradient of 7.24 feet per mile, Will
extend to the western side of Watching
Mountain at an elevation of 396 feet. INT
water will be carried through the noun
tain in a tunnel, brick or cement lined.
for a distance of about 1.750 feet. The
tunnel will nave a slope of ZIP feet per
mile, or a total fall OF 40 feet, and will
nave an area of section below a line one
fn1+ hh1nur fhn arnuyp nf tho a ron OF
7,42S square feet.
From the eastern mouth of the tunnel,
a 53-inch riveted steel pipe, with an ny
draulic gradient of 1902 feet per mile, will
carry the water to the. delivery at Der
gen reservoirs. All the pipes will have
the requisite thickness and in all other
respects will conform to the standard set
by your specifications.
The water offered inthis proposition is
now pure and wholesome. for drinking
and domestic purposes. The Rockaway
and Hudson Company propose to elimi-
nate any sources of possible pollution.
either by purchase, condemnation or the
exercise of the restrictive features of the
act of March "a, 1897, to prevent pollution
of the Passaic River and it's tributaries
above the falls at Paterson or any other
avs of the State, and are prepared to
carry out at any time during the life of
the contract, all requirements of the
specifications or any additional means to
the end that the water furnished shall
be preserved in a pure and wholesome
condition.
The Rockaway and Hudson Company
proposes, in the event of the acceptance
of the option to purchase herein given,
to vest in Jersey City, in addition to the
other easements and water rights re-
quired for the supply of 50smillion gallons
per day, the fee simple of so much of the
lands of the Couper-Lord estate, situated
at Boonton, as will cover and include
both banks and the bed of the Rockaway
River for about one mile, measured along
the stream between Powerville and the
crossing Of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad at Boonton, with
all the easements and water rights appur-
tenant thereto.
We annex to these proposals the follow
ing plans and maps. showing. generally
the design and character OF the scheme
proposed
First-Map of Rockaway water shed
above Boonton. showing water sheds pro.
posed to be utilized, area and position of
proposed storage reservoirs and dams,
boundaries and extent of tributary wa
ter sheds. general alignment of conduits
from reservoirs to Boonton.
Of Se eonduit from Boonfon C High Service
Reservoir, Jersey City.
Third-Profile on approximate line Of
conduits showing hydraulic grades and
sizes of pipe proposed and sections OF tun-
nels.
away and Hudson Company hath caused
it's corporate seal to be affixed hereto,
and this bid signed for it by its president
and attested by its secretafy, PIP author
llA % L L DOftt u u % IN L ~ NAAtJ ~
first day Of February. a.. D. eighteen un-
dred and nin~ety-eight.
THE ROCKAWAY M HUDSON COM
By W. P. STEVENSON.
(SEAL) President.
Attest
Secretary.
Postofice address, / Montgomery street.,
Jersey City, N. j..
State of New sJersey,)
Hudson county, )s.s.
BE it remembered that on this twenty
first day of February, AID, eighteen hum
bred and ~ninety-eight, before ne the sub
scriber appeared. George Holmes, WIZ
makes proof TO my satisfaction that he
well knows the corporate seal of the
Rocka way and Hudson Company, the
party named in and making the forego-
ing bid or proposals for furnishing q new
supply of water for the city of Jersey
is the proper corporate seal Of SAID COM
PAM that the same was affixe thereto.
and the said bid or proposals signed anG
delivered by w. Fl. Stevenson, who was
at the date and execution thereof the
President of said company. by authority
of the Board of Directors thereof, IN the
presence of said deponent. who Is and then
was the Secretary of said company, as
the voluntary act and deed of said COM
pany,, and deponent thereupOn signed the
name as subscribing witness and attested
the same as the Secretary Of said com~
parry.
sworn and subscribed to before the
undersigned the day ard year
above written.
VIM. g. e. See,
Master In Ehancery Of