The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-26
SPECIFICATIONS FOR A SUPPLY OF FIJI
TERED wATER o JERSEY
CITY.

800
the Board of Street and Water Commissioners.
will receive proposals for a supply of filtered
water based on this specification, at the office
OF the Board, at the City Hall, Jersey City,
New Jersey, on the day
of 1898. at ten O'Clock A. M.
HOW
The water must be delivered into the pres
ent pumping intake of the Jersey City Water
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
off and entirely exclude from the pump wells
any u%nfiltered Passaic River water. Such gate
reduce the capacity of the present intake for
passing water to the pump wells, and when
elusive, control of the City. The contractor.
bulkhead in perfect order and condition.
OF R
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
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
month, but a variation of 20 per cent. from
that rate must be allowed for by the contractor
and the water must be delivered as needed
by the City within these limits.
CONDITIONS.
The City reserves the right to reject any, or
all bids made by virtue of this specification.
Proposals will not be received after the time
fixed by the advertisement,
Proposals must be made on blank forms to
be obtained at the office of the Chief Engineer,
ana haan m najied pe for 70 the cier Ipe Of t tbe Rnsrd an az
Street and Water Commissioners, in a sealed
envelope, to be endorsed Proposals for Filtered
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
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 CHEQUE TO ACCOMPANY BID.
AS an evidence of good faith each bidder viii
dercsit one hundred thousand dollars in one of
the National Banks of Jersey City, or the New
and attach to his proposal a certified cheque
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 af-
ter it is ready for execution on part of said con-
tractor. Said cheque shall be in lieu of free
holder security.
ne 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
is to be cancelled. Upon the acceptance of wa
ter under this contract, the contractor must
furnish a new DOM y v INJURED thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of the
contract throughout It's period, which bond is
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 OF CONTRACT.
The contract to carry INTO effect this speci-
fcation shall be prepared by the Corporation
Attorney, with the approval OF the Corporation
Counsel 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
fos. THE CITY AGREES TO TAKE.
The CITY Will agree to take at least twenty
900 million gallons Of water per day, and to
lraceoi oGALIT OF WATER.
The water to be furnished shall be pure and
wholesome for drinking and domestic purposes.
The number of bacteria per cubic centimeter
shall not exceed Ave hundred at any time, and
the average Of weekly determinations through
out the year shall not exceed one hundred and
AIRY ner cubic centimeter.
4 The pnaurided water shall not contain as a re-
suit of such purihcatt5n any chemical or com
pound Injurious to heaisn, b or which viii attack
FENDER the water unsuitable for the purposes
to which the . CITY w sns s IS appl5ed, ,mnur,t,ss
shall he removed. In case the water delivered
shall not be Of t the ana a. r sSa,l oo, by i these :
titjed to compensation at one-half the contract
prices so long as water deficient IN quality
restored to the quality required by these speci-
hcations within one week after no ~ l has been
tha quality is defective. then the City may re-
fuse to make any payments whatever for wa
ter delivered by the contractor thereafter I'M
4 III the water shall be restored to contract pur-
ity. In case the contractor shall at any time
he unable to deliver enough water to supply
The Cityss needs. chen the City may Immediately
and without notice obtain an additional sup.
tbroagh It's old intake, or from other sources.
samples Of water may be taken by the City
The Contractor delivers the water into the pres