The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-03

c ASSOCldClOn COIQpldlQS. STATEMENT BY ASSOCIATION.
 Because of the various opinions con- corning the grievances of the East Side Improvement Association and the improvements which they desire, the directors issue the following state ment:
 The immediate object of the Asso- citation and property owners and vOt- CTS in parts of the Eighth and Tenth districts who are vitally interested is to obtain sanitary conditions in the locality in which they live. There are three grievances: Overland odOrs from the garbage plant; odors from the. river and mud flats below Berk- shire dam; odors from the mud flats in Berkshire pond.
 Berkshire pond is beautiful sheet of water in the center of a residential district When the pond is full there is absolutely no trouble. The Asso- citation desires to keep the pond as it is.
 The trouble at the pond Is the con- stant use of the water for power pur- poses and the opening of fthe gates at the pleasure of the Berkshire mill people leaving the mud flats bare. The Association desire the city to ob- tain the power rights, repair the dam. and take out the small, private sew CTS running into the pond The fresh water from the streams running into the pond will keep the pond full 8 great part of the time During the summer months the tide gates would automatically keep the surface of the pond at high tide level
 The river below Berkshire dam has been found to be polluted far beyond the point that is considered safe by experts. This pollution is caused by | I, A 1,o special sewer from the By-Product plant emptying into the river. During the summer months there is no water running. into the river ex- cept that which comes from the Sound. The channel is long and marrow which causes the polluted water to be rush. ed back and forth much like a weav- er's shuttle. Into this polluted river, just below Berkshire dam, commence ling some time during the month of April, the By-Product Company turn ed in the liquor obtained from the re- duction, of from fifty to sixty tons of garbage daily. A few weeks later there arose from the river and mud flats large quantities of gases so ob- noxious that they awoke citizens from their sleep and made their life miser able. During this time the water in the river was analysed and found to be one-fourth sewerage; one-twent1eth sewerage is the amount that is con- sidered safe.
 Later in the season the reduction plant was disabled by fire; one week after the reduction plant shut down the odors disappeared. A few weeks later the water was analysed and found to be greatly improved but the pollution was far beyond the limit of safety. It is the opinion of the As sociation .that the time has arrived when the city government must take care of the sewerage in the Pequon mock river. The sewers should be taken out of the river and discharged at or near it's mouth in such a, man. ner that the sewerage would be held back when the tide was coming in and discharged on the outgoing tide.
 The mud flats should also be remov- ed from the river.
 Overland odors from the plant have been as obnoxious to some of our citi- zens as the river odors have been to others, while a few who are located between the plant and river have suf- fered from both.
 The By-Product plant is located as near the center of the city as St. Vim cents hospital in Main street, the Burroughs Home in Fairfield avenue. or the entrance to St. MichaeIs ceme- tery in Stratford avenue. and it is nearer the center of the city than the entrance to Beardsley Park. It should be evident to every right thinking man that the city has grown too fast and property is too valuable to allow By-Product plant so near the center of the city unless it is strictly odor- less.
 The demand of the Association is that the city government shall com pei the By-Product Company to keep it's contract with the city. If the city government find that it is impossible for the By-Product Company to re- duce the garbage without odors, the plant shall be moved to a location where it will not cause trouble Or the contract shall be cancelled.