114 | 6 | 85.5 | 600,000
Millington | 56 | 31 | 56 | 370,000
Total | 393 | | 317.75 | 3,870,000
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Great Piece | 773 | 4.5 | 435 | 2,625,000
Mountain View | 380 | 8 | 380 | 3,340,000
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The necessity to retard the flow of or provide storage for
approximately 380 square miles of highland drainage area has been
determined after careful study, and there has been deduced an
amount which may safely be expected to represent the maximum for
the highest floods. When the highland tributaries are sufficiently
checked the natural storage on Great Piece Meadow in its effect
upon flood control becomes more apparent. Our investigations show
that the holding back of the flood flow--that is, 8 inches run-off
on approximately 380 square miles of flashy drainage area above
Great Piece Meadow--is necessary to reduce the discharge in the
river through the city of Paterson to 14,000 cubic feet per second
for a flood similar to that of 1903.

From the foregoing table, in which different reservoir projects are
compared, it is seen that only the reservoirs designated as Great
Piece and Mountain View will fulfill the requirements within a
reasonable limit of cost. It is also shown that a combination of
any other available sites would involve the expenditure of more
money for their construction and the control of less tributary
drainage area than is fulfilled by the demands of the Passaic
drainage basin. We are therefore brought to the conclusion that
only two of the projects above set forth will be effective. First,
the construction of a regulating dam on the main stream above
Little Falls, which we have called the "Great Piece" Meadow
Reservoir, and second, the building of a dam at Mountain View
across Pompton River. The relative cost of these reservoirs,
constructed for flood control exclusively, is $2,625,000 for that
on Great Piece Meadow and $3,340,000 for the Mountain View site.
Details of these estimates are as follows:

_Estimate of cost of Great Piece Reservoir, dam at Little Falls._

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