The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-10

| vides againstA future contingencies
 and does it witK no present expense When the tme comes that cities are compelled to deposft their sewage in | places other than running streams Bridgeport will be able to pump ii
 beds if the Herring plan is followed in l the future building of sewers. Such provision for the future is agreed to Not Expensive.
 But against it and against the Her.
 the objection that it is very ex.
 pensive. This objection does not I hold. When one studies the facts and the figures, which have been available
 to any Interested person for long ] time, twill be seen that the Herring method is not any more expensive I than the heretofore> followed plan. On page 22 of the report of the lspecial sewer commission is given the
 estimated cost of the sewer which ii
 was at first proposed to establish ano
 build. These figures reached to a | total of $3,000,000 and much has l been made of them. There has been darge amount of talk and much dis l turbarce of mind because the Her ing plan was to cost millions." But figures.
 Of that total amount, $61O,6S2.71 was the estimated cost of the six in tercepting trunk sewers, $465,O50 was l the cost of the western pumping sta. tion and outfall sewer, $398, ,590 was ] the cost of the eastern pumping sta- ton and outfa11 sewer, $276, ,473.4t
 was the cost of the sewers and storn, drains in the Seaside park district, l $1.144.261.25 was the estimated cost
 of sewers. storm drains, and auxiliary
 pumping stations which might be l needed later.
 These figures give us an actual
 total of $2,8Sb,057.45 as the cost of the work which is needed at presen,
 and might be added in the future
 revision; in. fact they have been re- vised to a degree.
 Intercepting Sewers.
 From them can be cut out for the
 present the cost of all work except
 the intercepting sewers. These it is proposed to build and when built they will be able to do satisfactory work l incorporation in the complete Herring system-if it become necessary to ultimately carry out the entire system as planned. The pumping stations and the outfall sewers are not now needed. They will be imperative when legislation compels us to carry our sewage either into the sound or into | filtration beds. The Seside park dis | trict it is not proposed to touch at present. It is simply proposed to go ahead upon cohesive wel1-thoughl- out plan and build first the Dewey street intercepting sewer. Under the revised plan this sewer would stop for the time being at Fairfiel dave
 nue, and be carried by temporary outfan down Auburn street to Burr creek at an estimated cost of $67, ,760
 Also under this revised plan, the
 other five intercepting sewers would be built in different manner and their cost would be reduced from the original estimate of over $600,000 to $427,037. These figures are taker. from special report to his honor, the
 mayor, made under date of Feb. 27. 1911, by Herring and Fuller and are
 worthy of special note. They are the actual estimate of an engineer of rep
 utation and accomplishment and they represent what we believe will be the acutal expense of carrying out the so- called Herring plan for several years to
 come. When they have been carried
 out, we shall have made long step
 forward and shall be fairly under way
 in an intelligent adequate effort to
 give Bridgeport proper system of sewage.
 Will you make sure of these figures