Annual Report of Chief Engineer1872 - Public works |
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36 inch amount April Area of Plunger ASTOR Average banking fires Bayonne Belleville Bergen avenue Board of Public boilers brick sewer BUREAU OF ENGINEERING cast iron cast iron water Central avenue CHIEF ENGINEER Clinkers conduit connection CONTRACTS AWARDED Cornish Engine cubic feet December 31 DECEMBER 31st diameter Displacement per Stroke Duplex Engine DUTY ending December engines at Belleville extension February Furnishing and delivering Gates grades Grand street Hackensack River High Service Hoboken avenue Hudson City Hutton street hydrants improvement iron water pipe January Jersey avenue JERSEY CITY WATER July June Length of Stroke LENOX AND TILDEN lineal feet Load on Engine meter Montgomery street MONTH Morris Canal Newark avenue November Ocean Ave Old Bergen Palisade avenue Passaic Passaic River paving Pounds of Coal pumping engines repairs Reservoir river sewer Sherman avenue South Street stand pipe Summit avenue supply TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tons Total number valve waste Worthington
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Page 51 - I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this Department for the year...
Page 19 - ... water to the Cherokee mines. A ditch had been constructed from Concore Creek to Yankee Hill, and from this place the water had to be carried across the ravine of the west branch to the opposite mountain, whence it was conducted in a canal to the mines of Cherokee Flat. The inlet to the pipe is 150 feet above the outlet, with a vertical height from the lowest point to grade line of 900 feet. The pipe is thirty inches in diameter, and is intended to carry 1,900 miner's inches of water. The water...
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Page 18 - Resolved, — That the Chief Engineer, be and he is hereby directed, to...
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Page 2 - As instances of the saving of water effected by meters, I will cite two cases. One large hotel which, on the first application of a meter, was found to be consuming, or, rather, wasting, 115,000 gallons of water daily, is now reduced to 45,000 gallons, and another has fallen from 80,000 gallons to 24,000 gallons daily.
Page 7 - ... preventing waste. It has been urged that payment for water by measurement might lead, in some cases, to uncleanly, penurious, and unhealthy economy. To prevent this a law providing a liberal quantity of water for dwellings, according to their size, can rate the water-tax by the present system. But beyond this allowance for legitimate use, full charge should be made per cubic foot. Having to pay regularly for sufficient quantity, whether used or not, no advantage would be gained from mean economy,...
Page 30 - Board of Inspection of the Pollution of the Passaic River and its Tributaries.