The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-14
WORK BOONTON
Expert Alfred Boiler In
spects the Foundations
for the New Dam.
SAYS EVERY PRECAUTIOH TAKEN
Danger of Seepage Prevented
by the Core Wall-Pipe
Line Across the Meadows
SAYS EVERY PRECAUTIOH TAKEN

A very satisfactory report on the pre-
hninary construction work of the new
dam to be built at Boouton, has just been
received 1t comes from Mr. Alfred p
Boiler, one of the oldest civil engineers
sin the county and one who has the high-
est reputation ON what is known as
foundation work for undertakings similar
to that in progress on Jersey City's new
water supply.
Mr.. Edward w. Harrison, the resident
engineer, thought it advisable to ask Mr..
Boilers opinion as to the foundation con-
struction so far completed. Mr.. Boiler
consented and in company with Mr.. Har-
rison went carefully over the ground at
Boonton few days ago and after the
Inspection the expert was unstinting in
his praise. He said that the engineers
mad shown every precaution in the con-
struetion of the foundation for the dam
ana the work done was of the highest
order.
You have" he said to aIr. Harrison.
shown conservative precaution In your
excavation for the core wall and from
my inspection there is an excellent bot
tom for the DAM"
10 you think it necessary for us to GO
down deeper?" asked Mr.. Harrison.
No." was the prompt reply. ..I cor.
tainly do not. 1t would be a wasta ~
tlne and of money and wouldn,t ,oasrs
your foundation any stronger. The cors
wall is splendid and will prevent anv ,os.
siole seepage working under the foot ~
the dam" Aoos VI
Some criticism having been made as n
the irregular alignment of the core wall
Mr. Boiler replied that it didn't matter .
particle whether the alignment was ra-
guiar or irregular. The main thing wa,
the soiidity of the wall and that was an.
parent beyond the peradventure of
doubt
hou nave In my opinion said the ex-
pert at the close of the inspection taken
all human precaution to make that dan,
safe.'' s's'aa
some attention was then paid to ths
pipe me and the work already in pro-
gfess at the east and west end of tbs
Watcnung Mountains through which the
tunnels Will pass. They are now ouenins
up the tunnel and rushing the pipe al
that point known as Horse Neck Head.
with this portion of the work Mr.. Bollev
was pleased and compltmented the on.
glneer on the progress of the work and its
character He was shown the proflaes fo.
the pipe line which have just been COM
pleted from Kingsland to the High Ser.
vice reservoir
The pipe line across the meadows from
kingsland back of the railroad shops and
roadhouse OF the Delaware and Lackas
Wana X. II. Is an almost straight line.
IL runs across the meadows parallel with
the u. l.. &c w. r. r., and crosses the
Hackensack river 500 feet north of ths
bridge of the Boonton Branch of the D.
L. & w. r. r. Fronr+ thence 1t passes
across the lands%of Mr.. PhoebesWatson
and Henry TTaphagen, to the uplands In
Secaucus belonging to Abel I. Lynch and
then on east.to the reservoir on the Hill.
The steel for this big water pipe is be-
ing made by the Gillespie Company and
is being rapidly delivered at the mills al
Paterson, wher the pipe is being made.
Already more than one thousand tons OF
pipe have been delivered, the men hav4
ing orders to forward it as fast as posx
sible. By the end of this month. it "a
expected that the work of laying the pipa
will have been begun.
Now that the work on the Foundations
has been finished the superstructure win
de begun at once. From the quarries
the stone has already been conveyed to thu
dam site. where it will be handled b3
large derricks travelling across the ravfns
and will be delivered on both sides ar
once.
In leaving Boonton Mr.. Boiler said that
when the work was finished, Jersey City
would have one of the strongest resert
voirs in the country, and water Supply