Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-30
A PROTEST
Against Empty1ng Sewers Into w

Against Emptytng Sewers Into West
 River. To the Honorable Board of Aldermen and
 Counci1men:
 We, as citizens, property owners and tax payers of the city of New Haven, ask that you consider well the matter of emptying the Davenport avenue or any other sewer into the little narrow stream that so closely cir c1es the whole western part of our city. Be fore taking any steps that you may hereafter have cause to regret, please to give it your most careful consideration. Remember that people living in one locality have not the right to cart over conduct under the ground and deposit at other localities any garbage or sewerage matters that would cause bad odors or be liable to create disease which the Davenport avenue sewer surely would. People owning homes and living in the west ern part of the city, and there are a great many of them, are entitled to pure air as well as those living a little farther east. Now, we say that if these people cannot en- dure the smell of their own filth, surely we cannot Then let the city at once commence 8 trunk sewer not emptying into little narrow stream of sluggish water that is run ming up six hours out of twelve and centering about the dood-gates, but let them build sewer that will empty into the harbor where 
 all deposits
 l CITIZENS AND TAXPAYERS OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE CITY.
 l To the Citizens of New Haven:
 Is it possible that we have Board of Health in our city that would suggest or favor having a sewer empty into the West river, it being nothing more than small sluggish stream or creek as we all know! People living on Howard avenue and in all l that section of the city west of Howard ave- nue to the West river, are you aware of the terrible nuisance that some or our citizens ! are trying to put upon you? You have wives and dear children. Then for their sake-if not for your own-try to do something to check this death-angel that will surely appear if not immediately stopped. l There is great danger at the present time of
 the almshouse sewer and other deposits in
 the river causing contagious diseases; The
 stench at every low tide is already bad
 enough. What would it be should
 tbs tba dsR sR" that Rn0Fty 96 sGps 3 for t5s
 Davenport avenue sewer to emp
 ty it's filth into our midst.
 If they are afraid of odors arising from the
 sewerage and cesspool matters certainly they
 know that we must be afraid to have them
 conduct it in or near yards. One man
 said that, sewerage deposits would pass out
 with the tide. We claim that to be all wrong 1 and impossible, and that he has had little il
 any experience with the natural drifts of the 1 West river tide. Talk about the diseased
 matter going out at every tide. tell you
 citizens, to the contrary. The filth from il
 would stay about the mouth of the sewer fol days, some of it drifting down a little way
 and then return only to mix with the out
 going stream of destruction from the sewers mouth Take, for instance, from one to tel , thousand small particles of driftwood or as sorted particles of anything, dump them, i you please, where the would-b' sewer would empty, watch then
 through the hot summer months and see hoy many of them would find their way out O
 the river You would find that large mum
 Der of them would be found on either side o the river, carried as they would be by ever. perigee tide, some landed among the meadow grass and some along the edges of the up lands. Supposing these to be 8 fractiona T part of the deposits from large sewer fo
 one day, one could easily see the immens :, quantity that must necessarily collect in f short time. Any person with any judgmen D can plainly see that such deposits should an' F l must empty into the harbor or Sound.
 FROM THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THE NATUR
 OF TIDE WATERS IN HARBoRs AND RIVERS