Public works . nt, of thoseof the publicly owned plants. In order to show the effect of meters, Mr. Hazenhas divided the systems into two classes, one inwhich 90 per cent, or more of the services are me-tered and the other in which less than 90 per cent,are metered, and finds that in the case of the formerthe average consumption is 89 gallons per capita andof the latter 154 gallons. PRACTICABLE SOVRCES OF SUPPLY Passaic Great Rescrzoir:—A large part of thepresent supply for the district is drawn from thePassaic river and its tributaries, the largest beingNewarks supply from the Pequannock, a t
Public works . nt, of thoseof the publicly owned plants. In order to show the effect of meters, Mr. Hazenhas divided the systems into two classes, one inwhich 90 per cent, or more of the services are me-tered and the other in which less than 90 per cent,are metered, and finds that in the case of the formerthe average consumption is 89 gallons per capita andof the latter 154 gallons. PRACTICABLE SOVRCES OF SUPPLY Passaic Great Rescrzoir:—A large part of thepresent supply for the district is drawn from thePassaic river and its tributaries, the largest beingNewarks supply from the Pequannock, a tributaryof the Passaic in the northern part of the of the two sources of supply for the district?which are considered most favorably by ]\Ir. Hazen•comprises the Passaic and all its tributaries aboveLittle Falls. A dam would be built a short distanceabove Little Falls, which would create a reservoircalled Passaic Great Reservoir, which would ex-tend 18 miles from north to south and would have. PASSAIC GREAT RESERVOIR. an area of 61 square miles. One of the great ad-vantages of this development would be that thisreservoir would serve as an equalizing reservoir toprevent floods, such as the disastrous one of chief disadvantage is tlie very large amount ofland which must be purchased. It is not practicableto make the reservoir any smaller by constructing alower dam, since a large part of the area to beflooded is practically level and any less height ofdam would produce on thousands of acres shallowerwater than is considered desirable for a water worksreservoir. It is estimated that the purchase of sitesand payment of damages for this developmentwould cost $39,000,000 out of the total estimatedcost of $93,000,000. This reservoir would lienorthwest of Newark, Jersey City and the othermost thickly settled parts of the Metropolitan dis-trict, and could utilize the pipes and conduits nowused for bringing supplies from this watershed,although these, of course, wo
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