The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-02
MR.. VINCENT
FAVlORS Herring
SEWER PLAN
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tial part of our present sewer system
we can provide ourselves with a mod
ern, up-to-date system at cost Of
about $3.50 per capita for city OF
one hundred thousand inhabitants
where the minimum in other cities has
been $25 per capita. Now, if we want
cheapness only in disposing of sewage
without doubt, as has been suggested
our grandfathers' way was the cheap
est
The Eext commonly applied method
is our present plan of pouring it into
the slow moving waters of our creeks
and rivers. where as the tides recede
it is Strewn along the shores and ieft
TO tester in the summer sun and Of
fend our senses, if it does not disease
our bodies.
The NaugatuCk river following the
valley down from Waterbury to its
junction with the Iousatonic furnishes
a striking and offensive example of
waters overcharged with sewage.
Doctor J. H. Townsend of the State
Board Of Health, tells me the same
condition is becoming acute In New
Haven, where he resides, and that the
people have demanded remedy. DR..
Townsend gave me permission to
quote him in this connection. 1t
seems to me no well-informed person
can believe but that the health au-
thorities of the State will very soon
order this practice stopped. In fact,
a bill is now pending looking to that
end. When that time comes. believe
we shall realize the costliness of our
failure or refusal to recognize the in
evitable if we do not allow ourselves
to be forewarned.
The committee appointed to procure
some practical and scientific plan for
disposing of our sewage recommended
to the Common Council in their report
of Sept. IL, 1862 that the city adopt
the entire Herring system as fast as
practicable and consistent in consid-
Grafton of our finances. If we We're
obliged to adopt the entire Herring
plan at once, it would require an in
vestment of one million seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. To adopt
the entire system in two or three years
would probably be unwise.
The Board of Apportionment in con-
sidering the requisition for sewer con-
structjon this year felt that it would
also be extremely unwise to continue
to build sewers without regard for a
future day when our sewage will be
ordered out of our creeks and rivers
by The State Board of Health or our
Legislature. or we shall, in Bridgeport,
want to take it out on account of it's
offcnsiveness and danger to health.
The Board of Apportionment and 9TH
er city officers thought that the pump
ing stations, provided for in the Her
ing plans. and costing 100000. could
be dispensed with for the present,
even though we did construct sewers
looking to their final outlet through
those pumping stations, if so desir-
ed Mr. Herring was called into con-
sultation and confirmed the opinion,
and under date of Feb. 81 1911, in
detailed outline to Mayor Buckingham
of what should be done in sewer con-
struction in the future to prepare our
selves for the final adoption of the
Herring plan, it is shown that by the
of not to exceed $3.50, 900
we can construct sewers to meet our
future need for years and we can so
construct them that, if we ever want
to build pumping stations, these sew
ers will still be more effective and
economical than our present system
After careful consideration of the
modified plans presented by Mr.. Her
ing, eleven members of the Board of
believed that it would
be ~wise to adopt them and recon-
mended an issue OF bonds to COM
mence the work. The Herring plan