The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-30
By Establishment of Modern Pumping System Bridge port s Problem Can
 Be Solved,
A S1,75o,o0o BOND ISSUE
Report of Special Commission Submit tcd--Detalls of Plan Suggested Matter in Hands of Com
 mon Council.


 The much looked for report of the sewer commission relative to the pro- posed new sewer system made It's ap- pearance before the Bridgeport com mon council this week It calls for the bonding of the city for total of sl,- i5O,OOD during a period of five years or at the rate of S3j0,00 year. Once fln- ished It is claimed Bridgeport will have sewer system for all time to como and that the Si0000 or sb0,00O which the city Is spending annually for made qGuate sewers will be done away with. The report submitted to the alder men which was referred to the alder manic sewer committee Is in two sec tions and includes the reports of the engineers. Herring X Fuller and would ill fifty newspaper columns Even this is not all for there are maps and pa pers in the possession of the sewer commission which WereNnot submitted Chairman Clark said it was the luteu- tion of the sewer committee 10 hold hearings SO the public could come in and be heard relative to the system which he says. if adopted. will make 1t possible to once more dig clans in the Pequonnock river and improve the gem eral health of the city go there will never bc any danger of the state board os health coming to Bridgeport and forbldding the dumping of sewage Into the harhor or the river,
 In order that the public might know what the sewer commission has been doing 1t submitted Its report in a summarized form as follows:
 First; The report proper, docu- ment of forty typewriter pages with a supplementary report of fourteen pages showing estimated costs
 Second a folio of 95 typewriter pages containing proper forms of con tract and specifications for building the recommended sewers, drains. pumping stations and disposal works, with appurtenances.
 Third A portfolio of fifteen plans of all sewers and drains on a scale of 200 feet to the Inch
 Fourth: A set of six drawings of sewer construction details and appur- tehances
 Fifth: Two maps of the city on scale of 800 feet to the inch, showing present and proposed layout of all sewers drains. pumping stations and disposal works,
 "Consldering now the report in de tail we will refer, first to the sub ject of
 Sewer Disposal
 "Consdered as an abstract proposi- ton. the disposal of sewage should combine the clements of lack of nuis- ance, freedom from liability 10 dam age to persons and property and low cost of maintenance compatible with reasonable construction costs Con cretely. the deductions of the engineers in the Bridgeport problem, seem 10 your commission to be entirely logical and to combine not only the plans best suited to our unusual conditions, but the most economical methods of carry ing them out, inasmuch as they make use of practically all of our existing sewers which have been installed at a cost of over million dollars. In fur ther support of their recommendations the city has examples of the latest and most successful practice, In this country and abroad We are, therefore, in complete accord with the engineers plans for a system which will, carry all sewage well into the sound through two main outfalls.
 storm Water Disposal.
 "The problem of our storm water disposal becomes a simple matter when 1t is segregated from that of sewage, and resolves itself into a proper en- largement of street drains where necessary, and their discharge into the nearest natural watercourse.
 Pumping,
 "One of the worst difficulties which has confronted the city In the past, has been of draining large areas of low lying land bordering on the tide waters of the sound and rivers. The future development of the city will only aggravate conditions which have already become an intolerable nuisance, and 1t Is evident that pumping offers the only solution. We are pleased to note in this report, the evidence of the engineers, that with the improved ma ehinerw now available, a pumping sta ton is neither q nuisance nor bur den in the cost of maintenance.
 Collection of Sewage and storm
 Water.
 Possibly the most intricate problem which the engineers had to meet was of the collection of sewage and storm waters in territory whose conforma ton showed so many fluctuations by arms of the sound, In measure, this peculiarity of Bridgeport will afford a saving in the cost of construction of the proposed system, This condition further suggests the separation of sewage drains from those designed tc carry away storm water only virtually