The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-10
HERRING PLAN FOR
 MILLIONS OFy SEWER
 EXPENDITURE BEATEN of Members Sewer Commission Which Recommended
 Immediate Expenditure of $l,75OOOO and Early Ex penditure of $1 900 More Abandon Y Earlier Views >ien a e,ent That S45OOOO Will do Very Good Job, and M That Ar7 ua Cost of Building Sewers Should Not be ss Greater in the Future Than it Has Been in the Past-GoodseH and Herring System Op- ponents Score Sweeping Victory F

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 in opening the arguments of the op- oonents last evening Attorney Eugene rB. Peek reminded the common coun- !. ell that Horace G. schoield, former city engineer. devised the present sew are plan years ago with view to taline care of the needs of the grow- inc city. The question of sewage con { ditions in Bridgeport is net so much fhat of the center as of >the outlying uist17St4 he said z. The Wilmot avenue and the Dewey street trunk sewers, big tubes .S6 byH 30 and 60 by 40 have been built to- handle the sewage, All the city needs to meet the conditions for which the Herring system so-called IS deeigned is the further carrying out or MT. Schofe1d6 plans. But the city 61lould discharge it's sewers properly, 1atd Attorney Peck He reminded his 2 audftorsS that 10 years ago MT. Scho- k neld urged the carrying out of sew CTS to low tide and the building of Aood1 1p6ta the point 6f discharge He \ 6e3fg6d asI4enry fzetr6ef basin, which oaid Mes speaker was not cleaned out but once in s years-a year ago-and 2. IT in such condition now that there IS no reasonable ground for complaint
 Yet 1t must be borne in mind that sotorna1 vigilance is the price of an
 
 what sort of a system is used, he com zf1nued The sewers must be watched. Box. that reason Mir. Schofield devised n6uho1eS to be placed at regular in- }ervAls for the clearing of the sewers. Inc chief trouble with the sewers Is 3o be found at the foot Of the hills Gf H1gh street, Arch street, Frqnklin jnfpoef and the like. The wash down z1he hill side fills the sewers.
 i- He said he couldn't see why small ~ fr>AA kr1v 0wage. frequently flushed with water [haf. 1o,,p4ta HH Nhad any sadvantage feer . 1arEe sewer with enough flow - carry off all sprts Of sewage with Cut f1ushing. He said he cared not to 1UGute any argument as to the great 0Dao of Unginesr Herring, but if the 01vocAtee of the system could bring 1Drth any more arguments he would Gko an opportunity to answer them,
 Ionn w. Wilson told the council n6D chief objections to the adoption of 11e Herring plan were based upon the KDelf. ! He noted the lack of an ap- { 0nrently sincere desire to inform the 6ouucH as to the entire plan with cost 1nd methods Of operation. The report - presented by gentlemen whose sim GDr1ty he would not question, hence So was obligsd to conclude that they I'll ben guilty of great carelessness, GDpeclally In the most important mat of cost A # U
 After tho commission congratulates lAe city on the cheapness with which Inc plan may be carried out, 8, ,750, 900, or $1zs0 per capita. and says that to carry out the plan they would be jus tined in seeking to expend $25 per capita tho commission goes on to say that it will be necessary to spend in the near future $2.ss5. 900 or nearly $so per capita.
 Then he pointed out that the com mission has abandoned it's engineer and no longer has it's system. For the commission now seeks to go ahead independent of Hering's recommenda- tions-
 Continuing in the matter of expense, MT. Wilson said that $3,O00,000 isn't even enough for fair estimate, for besides the actual system construction, there Is an expenditure of half a million to be made for connections with storm sewers by individuals. and af conservative estimate half a mill lion more for the purchase of the oys- ter grounds upon which 1t is planned to pump the sewage when it is carried out to the sound. And the proponents of the present scheme have forgotten that the Herring system is devised for the purpose of using pumping stations to carry the sewage into the sound, not for carrying sewage to a tidal stream.
 Turning to the report of the commits sion made years ago he showed that the recommendations stated that it was imperative that the city at once 10 into the Herring system After 3 years have elapsed he said the city haen.t suffered and nothing has been done stowards adopting this simpera-
 without this ezpeus4ye and .am-