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Originally published in 1907
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PRIOR to 1882 Hoboken got its water supply from the Jersey
City system. The first mains were, laid in Hoboken in
1857. All the mains are owned by the city; the water supply
obtained being obtained under contract from the Hackensack
Water Company.
Hoboken is not unlike many of our western cities, in the
respect that it is situated upon a practically flat area, and
as its water supply is drawn direct from two reservoirs, the elevations
of which are 180 and 194 feet above tide, it means with
stains of such diameters as would best insure low velocities and
low friction losses that there should he no material variation in
the water pressure throughout the entire city. The mains which
connect with the reservoirs and which enter the city through
Willow Avenue and Park Avenue, consist of a 12-inch, a 16-inch
and a 24-inch, the combined capacity of which to the north line
of the city is 12,000,000 gallons per day. The combined capacity
of the reservoirs located in Weehawken is 85,000,000 gallons and
the daily consumption of the city at the present time is 7,250,000
gallons. The water supply to the city is still further guarded by
the fact that three separate lines of mains, a 20-inch, a 24-inch
and a 36-inch connect directly the Water Company's main pumping
station at New Milford with their reservoirs at Weehawken,
and as the mains are laid over different routes it is quite unlikely
that anything would happen that would simultaneously affect
the three mains, or cause them all to be temporarily out of commission
at the same time. The supply is drawn from the Hackensack
River at New Milford, the daily flowage of which for several
years leas exceeded 100,000,000 gallons. The Hackensack
River rises in the high grounds west of Haverstraw, flows south
through an unpopulated country, and its volume is constantly being
added to by numerous natural springs and brooks. Rockland
Lake is an important feeder and the Pascack Brook is the
principal tributary of the main river. On the Pascack Brook the
Hackensack Water Company has recently completed, and has
now in use, an empounding reservoir, which has a capacity of
835,000,000 gallons, the object being to store a sufficient supply
to provide for a long period of dry weather. This reservoir is
one and a half miles long, practically one-half mile wide, and
water at the dam, which is some 1,500 feet in length, is 30 feet
deep. The water shed of the Hackensack River covers a drainage
area of 114 square miles, all of which is under regular and
systematic inspection for pollution of any and all classes. In
cases of pollution where it has been found impossible to secure
abatements by the company, or through the local health boards,
such cases have been referred to the State Board of Health,
whose practice is to immediately notify the offending parties, fixing
a limited time in which the pollution must be permanently
abatedd to their satisfaction, a refusal of which is followed by a
necessary participation in legal proceedings. The foregoing
brief statement' in relation to Hoboken's water supply, together
with the adequate provisions and facilities employed by the
Hackensack Water Company to furnish and maintain it coupled
with the fact that all water furnished to the city is now filtered,
rendering the duality practically pure and colorless, show that
for duality, abundance and possibility of service, the citizens of
Hoboken can conscientiously claim that its water supply is second
to none in the State.
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