Based on available information, the following is an approximate summary of the PVWC distribution system:
Pipe Sizes and Lengths
- Total length: 426 miles
- Size distribution (percent of total length):
- 6-inch diameter – 42 percent
- 8-and 10-inch diameter – 28 percent
- 12-inch diameter – 12 percent
- 16 to 51 inch diameter – 18 percent
Pipe Materials
- Cast Iron (with cement lining) – 40 percent
- Cast Iron (without cement lining) – 17 percent
- Ductile Iron (with cement lining) – 31 percent
- Ductile Iron (without cement lining) – 8 percent
- Concrete – 2 percent
- Steel – 1.3 percent
- Transite – 0.7 percent
Distribution System Gradients
- Clifton High Service Area – 427 feet (Great Notch Reservoir)
- Borough of Prospect Park – 412 feet (Prospect Park Booster Station)
- Part of Clifton and Passaic – 325 feet (Main Pumping Station)
- Paterson, part of Clifton and Passaic – 300 feet (New Street Reservoir)
Reservoirs
- Great Notch Acres 427 feet 178.5 Million Gallons 30.24 acres
- New Street 303 feet 52.4 Million Gallons 12.75 acres
- Levine 180 feet 19.2 Million Gallons 5.2 acres
- Point View 400 feet 3 Billion Gallons 433 acres
Pumping Stations
Little Falls (Main Pumping Station at Little Falls Treatment Plant)
High Pressure (Wanaque)
- 1 pump at 18 Million Gallons Per Day
- 2 pumps at 28 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 48 Million Gallons Per Day
Low Pressure (Industrial)
- 2 pumps at 28 Million Gallons Per Day
- 2 pumps at 18 Million Gallons Per
- 1 pump at 30 Million Gallons Per Day
Transfer
- 2 pumps at 15 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 12 Million Gallons Per Day
Verona
- 1 pump at 12 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 10 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 2 Million Gallons Per Day
Totowa 4 pumps at 1 Million Gallons Per Day
Morris County 3 pumps at 8.3 Million Gallons Per Day
Great Notch 2 pumps at 6 Million Gallons Per Day
Great Falls
- 1 pump at 2.5 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 4.5 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 5 Million Gallons Per Day
East Side 2 pumps at 6.5 Million Gallons Per Day
Botany
- 2 pumps at 6 Million Gallons Per Day
- 2 pumps at 2 Million Gallons Per Day
Prospect Park 2 pumps at 0.7 Million Gallons Per Day
New Street 2 pumps at 0.9 Million Gallons Per Day
High Crest 2 pumps at 0.4 Million Gallons Per Day
Post Brook 2 pumps at 0.15 Million Gallons Per Day
Bloomingdale
- 2 pumps at 1.2 Million Gallons Per Day
- 2 pumps at 0.3 Million Gallons Per Day
Lincoln Park
- 1 pump at 1.0 Million Gallons Per Day
- 1 pump at 1.4 Million Gallons Per Day