The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
GOOOSEu OPPOSES LEAP INTO COSTLY HERRING
 PLAN FOR SEWERING
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 sity limits, on the northern boundar- ies of our city. Does any one believe that a ten inch sewer extending from Seaside Park and running northerly ; on Park Avenue for two and a half to three miles with all lateral sewer connections from side streets crossing Park Avenue, would accommodate all the householders bordering on this ply equally to all residential streets running north and south the same as it would have to apply to the outlying districts of the city of Bridgeport in years to come.
 The plans for the modified Herring Monday. February 27th, delivered to the Sewer Committee of the Board of Apporticnment and passed by them on Tuesday. February 2sth. On |. voted to adopt this modified sewer system of Herring. Did the members of the Board of Apportionment thor oughly investigate this new sewer system? Did the Honorable Sewer Committee of the Common Council was the best system that could be planned for greater Bridgeport? If none of these committees personally investigated this new modified sewer
 
 in combination through the influence of committed parties, took MT. Her ing's plans without giving them any consideration whatever, except MT. Hering's word.
 Would Offer Premium.
 If such parties. interested in the, continued destruction of our present sewer system, would consider how much wiser it would be to offer a premium to expert engineers, who hax la a ctr of Sn rvn 1o1 ocs to submit different plans for sewering the City of Bridgeport, then they would not be blamed so severely in the future for taking the word of the engineer. when there are numbers>of equally as good or better engineers who have had experience in all kinds of sewer problems in every section of the -country.
 Bridgeport cannot afford to be she first in the field to carry the burdens of every new engineers plans If a costly blunder on so large an out lay should be made, the parties in- terested in this plan would only be assessed a small part of the outlay, would have to bear the larger part of the assessment for all time with out any redress.
 Means Sacrifice.
 It would mean to each small tax payer every year. a sacrifice of need
 
 It hardly seems that men of trained business experience, would for a min ute, advocate the spending of even One Hundred Thousand Dollars, s1oo,ooo) in their different business enterprises. without giving the prob lem much more thought than they have given to this sewer question which involves an outlay of from three to five millions of dollars, of other peoples money. The people nn fn in hn fno
 Past and present Boards of Alder men are responsible for the deliberate destruction of trunk sewers formerly planned and laid for the future growth Of Bridgeport The records of the Common Council show that the Hon. orable Sewer Committee unanimous ly admitted this condition, in recom- mending the retaining or placing back of the trunk sewer system as it originally existed. They honestly ar rived at the above conclusions, with cut any outside influence being brought to bear upon them, except their own honest convictions in the matter. They carefully looked over the ground in person, and cannot con sistently avoid the blame that will be laid to their door by claiming it was the City Engineers fault.
 Practical Consent.
 The City Engineer has practically given consent to every change recom- mended by the Sewer Committee. He was we'll aware and had knowledge of the present and past trunk sewer conditions when he consented, that small sized sewers should be tapped into these trunk sewers, simply for the accommodation of a few persons private interests.
 If the Board of Aldermen think by adopting the Herring system they are going to cover up any past ineficien- cy, after partially destroying the sew CT system as originally planned, they are making a great mistake. l doubt II It will ever be forgotten or forgiv en, unless rectified now, as their hon. est convictions demanded at the start. It is pretty expensive proposition to blind the taxpayers to an expendi- ture of from three to five millions of dollars to cover up errors and mis- takes which a few thousand dollars would rectify.
 Gradually Rebuilding.
 Bridgeport is gradually being re- built, roads are widened, at an enor- nous expense, curbs and new side walks continually relaid, sewer wells and connections eenlarged, rebuild ing new and old streets with macadam and paving. the continuous digging up of the same for new water mains | hydrants and connections, larger gas mains, besides old bridges being torn dious ones being built, because the ! growth of population and traffic of | the City demands it, and in no par ticular case has the present sewer i system failed. It is the one system 1 that up to the present time, has with i stoood all demands made upon it, l without the necessity of continually i digging up and rebuilding in com ! parison to all other existing condi- | tions. Our forefathers never took in- l to consideration what a larger city 1 Bridgeport would eventually grow to ] be. With such conditions and ex- . periences, staring us in the face, can- !, not the present generation improve upon the old methods and plan and build at the present time for a still 1, greater Bridgeport? It is perfectly natural for those manufacturing material, and for con- | tractors supply men, engineers, corn- ,