The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-27
DAM And dixie.
How the Work on the New
Water Supply is Pro-
crossing.
ENGINEER FERRIS'S REPORT
Contract Exclusive of Water
Rights is About Thirty
Per Cent. Per-
formed.


In accordance with a request of the
Street and Water Board at its last meet
ing Mr.. Garwood Ferris, engineer in
charge of the construction of the new
water plan, submitted at this afternoons
meeting of the Board the following re-
port concerning the dates upon whisA
work on the various sections were COM
menced and the progress by sections thus
far made:-
Jersey City, August "a, 1901.
Hon. Board of Street and Water Commis-
sionerS.
Gentlemen-In response to the resolution
passed at your meeting held August 20.
which resolution was received by me on
the 23d of August, 1 desire to present ths
following
1st. As to when work was commenced
by the contractor for the new water sup
ply.
1t will be borne in mind that the con-
tract executed February 2S, 1S99 provided
that the works should be completed by
August 81, 1901, allowance, however, for
time lost by certiorari proceedings throws
completion date forward to February Is.
1902. Preparatory work was started early
in the spring of 1899.
As a result the contractor asked for
permission to change the location of his
dam, which request was granted Novem-
Der Is, 1899, and from that date until
proceeded with more or less activity. By
the 1st of May, 1900, the quarry at Hog
Mountain has been opened up, the rock
crusher installed and the railroad con-
structed from quarry to dam. The first
actual construction work, however, dates
as August IA, 1900, when pipe laying
commenced. On August p, 1900, the first
shot was fired for Hook Mountain Tun-
nell
The status of the work by sections. az
of August /, 1900, is as follows:-
Reservoir Basin:-
Contract requirement-About 500 acres
of land to be prepared tor reception OF
water
Work performed-Forty per cent. OF land
secured; one hundred and ten acres OF
timber cut out of a total of 235 acres; also
some grubbing and charring.
1 estimate that from 20 to 25 per cent
of the work necessary to prepare for los
cation for reception of water has been
performed.
Dam and dixie
Earth and loose rock excavation, fifty
to sixty per cent. of work performedi
stone out of quarry, one hundred per
cent of ashlar; thirty-three per cent. OF
rubble; masonry in place. none, dixie
Counting in work at quarry. railroad.
excavation as above, trestles, machinery
and other preparatory items l shoulQ
consider it all as about equivalent TO 81
percent. of the requirements for this Sec
ton.
Tunnels-Length required, 1oOs4 feet
work performed, excavated 6,096 feet. y
per cent; masonry lining, per cent
Progress on this section estimated at SO IL
per cent.
waited, s. 236 feet; 80 per cent. Progress il
this section estimated al 10 per cent.
Steel Pipe-9l,5 81 feet; pipe laid, Sl,2A
feet Progress on this section estimated
at SO per cent.
Sewerage and other anti-pollution work
Nothing as yet done on this section.
The contract taken as a whole, but
exclusive of water rights, | should esti-
mate as about thirty per cent. performed.
AS to the water rights l am informed that
say ninety seven per cent. of the whole
have been secured.
Respectfully submitted.
GARWOOD FERRIS,
Engineer in Charge.