The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-07

age IS immediately diluted and the foa ting matter retained so as not to appear on the surface of the water, THERE IS NOT AND CAN BE NO NUISANCE.'
 Report of sewer commission, page 1O)
 MT. Herring further says:
 Our recommendation regarding the disposal of the City of Bridgeport, to- day is. to discharge it in PROPER ops OF DISPERSION INTO THE SOUND"
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 . Discharge Into Sound.
 MT. Hering's whole study therefore, is, the question of sewage disposal, but stating that if discharged into suffi- ciently large body of water, it cannot be nuisance, he purposes to do just IS we are now doing and discharge it into the sound. Now it will at once be apparent, that if the question of sewage disposal is abandoned, the whole superstructure of MT. Herings plan falls at sonce to the ground, and excepting asa constituting a provision for an unknown bug-a-boo of their own creation, the committee seem def initely to have abandoned, in the modified plans the whole subject of sewage disposal Now let us .consid- CT the uldIL0f or sewage disposal. w e all know the healthfulness of Bridge port. MT. Hering's statement that he found it third in all the cities of the Union, in respect to freedom from typhoid, did not surprise us, that fact, and others similar, were a6ready in our possession. We have celebrated our centenary, and our congested dis tricts are as they have been for many years. And in them MT. Herring finds many miles of sewers, mostly well built, and doing efficient york; and our health good
 NatuEe's Remedy.
 Our sewers discharge "dispersedly' with fish of all kinds, even in the said to be. worst places.<' Competent en- gineers of the most approved standing, who have made. exhaustive examina- tions of the waters of New York bay furnish conclusive data for our guide as to relative pollution, it's existence and its amount. It must be borne in mind, that without entering into any discussion as to any properties of salt water being especially. effective as an antisceptic, that it is stated by all, that owing to the poeeence of Oxygen in all waters, immediate action takes place towards rendering sewage harm less, 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 espec- ially by the action of currents and winds So that the pollution must be constant to overcome this renewal, for the renewal is as constant as the ex- haustion. It therefore follows that unless sewage is deposited constantly in such quantities, in such a limited body of water, that it exceeds a safe capacity of dilution. or otherwise oxygen use, that nature has provided for the remedy of pollution, and that no use of especial means are necessary or advisable. As I have before stat ed, in our fifteen miles of water front, we have such a body of water, that estimating from the data obtained from the most renowned sanitary en- gineers if the whole state was to dis charge it's sewage into this water front, it would not imperil in the least the health or welfare of our inhabi- tants Army Officers Deductions. Col. Wm. M. Black. U. s: A.. a, most eering, who was appointed to investi- gate the pollution of New York bay, and who being an officer of the U. S.. Army is not working for private re- muneration, after making an exhaus- tive examination of the conditions cient degree to be menace to the health of the City, has this to say re- garding precisely the same system of sewers that are in use in this City:
 When the importance of the sub- ject and the vast amount of capital involved in the proper solution of the question are considered, it would ap- pear self-evident that ordinary busi- ness sense would require careful in- vestigation into existing conditions, INTO THE NECESSITY FOR A CHANGE. and into the most econom- ical method of attaining the desired results.'
 (Report of Col. Black, page 193.) It would seem, however, that it would not be necessary for a Sanitary Engineer to make this statement It is one that every sensible man cain appreciate to its fullest extent. And yet, without any bacteriological in- ~z~S- sxz.sa1. ..as.s.ss ezxxa -1