The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-01
SIGNED.
Mayor HoOs at Last
Guarantees the
City Good
Water.
OFFICIALS ALL DELIGHTED
Contract With P. H. Flynn
Executed at 2::9O
O'Clock This
Afternoon.
ALL OBJECTIONS REMOVED
The Mayor Convinced the
Plans and Prices Are
the Best That Can
Be Secured.
FEATURES OF THE SYSTEM
Seventy Million Gallons a
Day Available--Pipe Line +.
For Fifty Millions
FEATURES OF THE SYSTEM
Seventy Million Gallons
Day Available--Pipe Line
For Fifty Millions
Purity Warranted.

The water contract has been approved.
Mayor Hoos attached his signature to
the Board of Finance concurrent resolu-
ton at half-past two o'clock this after
noon Mr.. P. H. Flynn, who secures the
contract was at once notified. His coun-
sci, William d. Edwards, was also in
formed of the favorable disposition of
the award.
The news spread like wildfire, and every
city official who has IN any way been
connected with the award, expressed
great pleasure at the Mayors action. Ii
nance Commissioner Simpson was particu-
iarly pleased.
1.-THE Mayor has done his duty he re-
marked, 81 will now hope to see our city
prosper"
1t was in the middle of last summer
that bids for a new supply of water
were invited by the Street and Water
Commissioners. On the day set for the
reception of bids only two bids were re-
ceived. Both came from Mr.. p H. Flynn,
the millionaire and famous con-
tractor of Brooklyn. The watershed Of
fered by Mr.. Flynn was inspected by the
city officials and members of the Board
of Trade
Experts had prepared the specifications
and experts examined the Flynn bids. In
no particular could anything be found
wanting Disinterested advice was sought
and no stone was left unturned to make
sure that the city was at last getting
what it required-a bountiful supply of
pure and wholesome water Finally, on
December g. after months of investigation
and consideration, the Street and Water
Commissioners, by a unanimous vote,
passed resolution awarding a contract
to Mr.. Flynn.
Of the two bids presented by Mr.. Flynn
that one known as Plan No. 1 was ac-
cepted. The vote for the plan was unani-
nous. Under that plan this is what Mr..
Flynn offered
This plan provides for the immediate
supply of fifty million gallons of pure and
wholesome water daily, with the lands,
reservoir sites, water rights and ease
ments necessary to enable the city to di-
vert and use seventy million gallons of
water daily.
1t is to be taken from the Rockaway
River watershed, with the main intake
located on the Rockaway River at Old
Boonton, as shown on maps Nos. and z,
accompanying the bid. This intake res
ervoir, which will also serve the purpose
of a storage reservoir, will have an area,
as improved, IOr the nILy mlllOn gallons
delivery, of nine hundred and forty-nine
(949) acres; maximum depth of one
hundred and two Q02) feet at the DAM
and more than seventy-five per cent.
(75TD of the area thereof will exceed
eight (S) feet in depth at the full water
level. 1t will have a capacity above the
effluent pipes. of 1852 million gallons, an
elevation at the flow line of two hundred
and ninety-two (292) feet above mean high
tide, and the elevation of the effluent
pipes will be 1865 feet. The dam win be
of masonry. one hundred and five Q05)
feet in height. exclusive of foundation,
and will be constructed and equipped as
required by the specifications. 1t is
marked Dam No. and shown on maps
Nos. and 2.
There will be tributary to this intake
and ctorage reservoir. the whole flow of
the kockaway River, having watershed
and gathering grounds of one hundred
and twenty-five and one-half Q221a)
square miles, including the waters of the
Longwood Valley, Green Pond. Denmark
Lake Beach Glen, Split Rock Lake, Dix
on's Pond, Shongum Lake and other tri-
butary streams.
The location, area and extent of the
gathering grounds are shown on maps
Under this plan for a supply of fifty
million gallons of water per day at the
outset no additional storage reservoirs
will be required.
From this intake at the Old Boonton
reservoir above described, the water will
be conveyed by gravity along the route
shown generally upon map No. ]. upon
the right of way as required by the spe.
cifications, by a single steel conduit of
Hook Mountain; thence through Hook
Mountain by tunnel brick lined, hay
ing an inside diameter equal to 6.S5 feet;
thence by single steel conduit Of seven
ty-six inches inside diameter to
Watching Mountain; thence through
Watching Mountain by a tunnel brick
lined having an inside diameter equal to
SIS feet; thence by single steel conduit
Of seventy-six G6) inches diameter into
Bergen reservoir, where the water to the
extent of fifty million gallons daily. if re-
nuired, will be delivered with pressure
equal to head of two hundred and ten
Clio feet above mean high tide. All OF
The above conduits and tunnels are shown
on man No / annexed. The profile and
hydraiilic gradients of said conduits and
tunels are shown on profile No. annexed.
The water proposed TO pc Iurnlsnea IS