Report to the Newark Aqueduct Board, Upon the Subject of a Supply of Water for the City of Newark |
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24 hours 36 inch pipe acres annual cost annual expense bank Belleville Bloomfield road Brooklyn Canal Company capacity cent city of Newark coal per horse conduit construction consumption Cornish engine cost of pumping Croton delivering the water distribution DOLLARS duty elevation embankment engine house estimated feet above tide furnish gallons daily gallons in 24 gallons per day Green Pond head high service reservoir horse power hundred and six hundred and twenty inches in diameter increased Jersey City Lake Lake Hopatcong low service reservoir lower manufactories miles Mill million gallons millions of gallons Morris Canal necessary NEWARK AQUEDUCT BOARD number of buildings obtained Passaic River Pipe Stops Pipe population power per hour proposed Pump Main Pumping Engines purpose quantity of water Rahway River raised 1 foot receiving reservoir Rockaway River Second River Settling Reservoir steam Stops Pipe Stops supply of water take the water twenty feet
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Page 13 - ... of England, to obtain a copious supply of the brine ; but in such case to expect that by simply boring down into the earth, a plentiful supply of water can be obtained for the domestic and manufacturing purposes of a populous town, is to expect what rarely or never can be accomplished.
Page 9 - ... see, with great certainty, the requirements of the future. During the summer months, for two years past, the whole flow of the Croton river has been turned through the aqueduct, and in 1851, " for many consecutive weeks, not a drop of water passed over the dam, and the lake formed by it was gradually drawn down two feet seven and a half inches." The daily delivery in the city for a large portion of these two years, has been about thirty millions of gallons a day — often in the past year at...
Page 51 - The result of our enquiries has convinced us that much disease and many of the inconveniences under which the poorer classes labour, may be alleviated by a plentiful supply of this great necessity of life. All medical men unite in opinion of the great advantages that a better supply of water will effect in the health of the working classes.
Page 12 - ... this fact ; were the springs of that inexhaustible nature some pretend, not a single mine or colliery in the universe could be worked to any moderate extent whatever. The second instance of failure in boring, which has happened in our own practice, we shall now proceed to relate.
Page 7 - The results of chemical analysis leave little doubt that stream- waters are by far the best for domestic consumption as a rule. In selecting gathering- grounds for the supply of a city, it is of the first importance that the geological and topographical conditions should be favorable to purity. If otherwise, it will be almost impossible to maintain this supply in a satisfactory condition. The very best waters of the State are those from the Archaean .Highlands. Not only is this true, but these streams...
Page 24 - Experiment has shown that when the upward current is applied under a pressure of twenty-six feet head, it does not remove one-tenth part of what has been deposited; it seems necessary to produce great agitation between all the particles before the impurities will detach themselves from the grains of sand.
Page 25 - The quality of the water is shown by anatysis to be equal to that of most rivers, and excelling many in good repute.