The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-01

United States army, is not working Tor private remuneration. after mak- ing an examination of the conditions there and finding no pollution of suffi- cIent degree to be a menace to the health of the city, has this to say
 regarding precisely the same system of sewers that are in use in this city: When the importance of the subject and the vast amount of capital in- volved in the proper solution of the question are considered, it would ap- pear self-evident that ordinary busi-
 ness sense would require careful inves- t1gat1on into existing conditions, into
 the necessity for a change, and into the most economical method of attain ing the desired results
 CReport of Colonel Black, page 193.)
 A Healthy City.
 MT. Peck continues: "It would seem, however, that it would not be neces- sary for sanitary engineer to make this statement. It is one that every sens1 ole man can appreciate to it's full- est extent And yet, without any bac. teriological investigation, without any
 known reason, except reports as to bad smalls variously laid to garbage plants and sewers, it is seriously pro-
 posed that we here in Bridgeport almost the healthiest city in the United States-shalI commit ourselves to the beginning of a sewage disposal system, not only involving a vast ulti-
 mate expense to the public at large, but entailing upon every person the pense of changing all present sewer
 connections. And this beginning is made, to render the absurdity still more apparent, in outlying districts of present sparse population, necessarily
 residential, and thorough we'll provid- ed with the largest trunk sewers of all our many miles, well built and
 doing efficient service" As is further said by Colonel Black in his report on New York bay, If at one point
 there appears to be sufficient pollution to render the same either harmful or
 unpleasant, that particular spot, cov- er1ng a congeSted district, can and ] should be separately considered, and one of the many ways of remedy that particular spot should be adopted, but that does not involve the adoption of an entire new system, or the change from the present. His conclusion be- ing that, where fish exist, no danger exists, so while our very worst places teem with fish, still if it be conside cred
 desirable to relieve any one spot from
 any odors, or other causes of offense,
 I will not in the least object.".
 Our sewers discharge 'dispersedIy' into the sound our waters swarm with
 fish of all kinds, even in the said-to- be
 worst places. Competent engineers
 of the-most approved standing, who
 have made exhaustive examinations of
 the waters of New York bay, furnish
 conclusive data for our guide as to rel
 ative pollution, its existence and it's
 amount. It must be borne in mind
 that, without entering into any dis
 cussion as to any properties of salt
 water being especially effective as an
 antiseptic, that it is stated by all that,
 owing to the presence of oxygen in all
 waters. immediate action taxes place
 toward rendering sewage harmless, or
 asceptic; this oxygen is used up in
 this effort if the pollution is too great,
 but it is also renewed by and from
 the atmosphere, and especially by the
 action of currents and winds, so that
 the pollution must be constant to over
 come this renewal, for tn renewal is
 as constant as the exhaustion. It,
 therefore, follows that unless se wage
 is deposited constantly in such quan-
 titles, in such limited body of water,
 that it exceeds safe capacity of dilu-
 ton, or otherwise oxygen use, that
 nature has provided for the remedy
 of pollution, and that no use of spe-
 cial means are necessary or advis-
 able AS I have before stated, in our
 Is miles of water front we have such
 a body of water that, estimating from
 the data obtained from the most re- noWned sanitary engineers. if the