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Report Regarding Wanaque Project by F Herbert Snow North Jersey Dist 1927 Aug
Report Regarding the Wanaque Project by F Herbert Snow to the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission 1927 August
Soft Cover
93 pages
CONTENTS OF REPORT
PAGE
Letter of Transmittal III
PART I
GENERAL CONDITIONS AND PERTINENT FACTS
Sect. 1. The Commission's Comprehensive Water Policy
Sect. 2. The Critical Situation in 1927 6
Sect. 3. The Wanaque Project As First Conceived 8
Sect. 4. The Grants of 1916 and 1924 8
Sect. 5. Commission-Newark Contract of 1924 10
Sect. 6. The Contracts of 1925 11
Sect. 7. Steel Pipe Lines in the District 12
PART II
WATERSHED CONTROVERSY
Sect. 1. The Issue 13
Sect. 2. Stream Flows 13
Sect. 3. Wanaque Reservoir 14
Sect. 4. Wanaque Watershed Yield 16
Sect. 5. Conclusion 20
PART III
AERATION CONTROVERSY
Sect. 1. The Issue 21
Sect. 2. Quality of Wanaque Reservoir Water 22
Sect. 3. Facilities for Drawing off the Water 24
Sect. 4. Upper half of Reservoir Depth Will Furnish the
Supply 26
Sect. 5. The Aerator 27
Sect. 6. Landscape Treatment 28
Sect. 7. Clearing, Grubbing, Forestation and Comments 28
Sect. 8. Control of Microscopic Growths 29
Sect. 9. The Value of Aeration 30
Sect. 10 Conclusions and Comments 30
PART IV
HYDRAULIC STUDIES
Sect. 1. Quotations from Johnson Report 33
Sect. 2. Quotations from Pratt-Sherrerd Report 36
Sect. 3. Quotations from John R. Freeman's Report 43
a. Basis for Estimates of Water-Carrying Capacity
of Steel Conduits 43
b. Value of "C" Adopted in Basis for Estimates 44
c. Impairment of Conduit Capacity 45
Sect. 4. Robert E. Horton's Report 46
Sect. 5. Conclii,ions 62
PART V
AQUEDUCT CONTROVERSY
Sect. 1. The Main Issue 65
Sect. 2. Available Head an Asset 65
Sect. 3. Grade Aqueduct 66
a. Original Wanaque Project 66
b. Intermediate Projects 67
c. Alternative Locations 68
d. Great Notch Tunnel and Adjacent Grade Aque-
duct 68
e. Grade Aqueduct Present Project 69
(1) Wanaque Tunnel 70
(2) Special Structures 70
f. Comments 71
Sect. 4. Grade Aqueduct vs. Pressure Aqueduct 73
a. Quotations from Johnson Report 73
(1) General 73
(2) Relative Strength of Riveted Steel and Smooth-Bore Pipe 75
(3) Life of Concrete Aqueduct and Steel Lines 76
b. John R. Freeman's Classic Report of 1900 79
Sect. 5. Pressure Aqueduct Proposed by Col. Johnson 82
Sect. 6. Local Water Works 85
a. Passaic Consolidated Water Co. 85
b. Newark, Kearny and Bloomfield 86
Sect. Discussion and Conclusions 86
PART VI
ESTIMATED COSTS 91
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