The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
MR. PECK HITS
 NAIL ON HEAD
Intelligent and Convincing Ex- pose of $1,2O0,O0O Sewer
 Bond Scheme of Republican
 Administration

Editor of Bridgeport Evening Farmer Gentlemen; By the pamphlet issued by His Honor, he--Mayor. received by me yesterday, the argument used by him in favor of bonding our city for the sum of one million. two hun dred thousand dollars, in order to be- gin the construction of sewers. under the so-called Herring spIan,' is based upon nis-statenent> of facts-('1 I will not use the shorter and uglier word.-T.R,l. His Honor says: .sRu- eolpn Gll er5ain prgsGnee ete1sag provements which if adopted would rid the city from foul conditions aboundlng in many sections THIS Is NOT TRUE. Mr. Herring made no such recon mendations he is altogether too intelligent an engineer. Let me quote what HE DID RECOMMEND. '' Our recommends ton regarding the disposal of the sewage of the City of Bridgeport today, is to discharge it in a proper manner and by proper method of dispersion, into the Sound" ," Report Sewage Committee, page 12 At no place, and in no manner does MT. Herring ever state that the pre- dispersal. is either unsanitary or un- wise-fle carefully refrainS from so doing-and any intelligent man is practically as capable MT. Herring of ascertainir1g and passing upon that question. Filth is scientifically defined to be matter out of place Oxygen Herring (page ID with the aid of bacteria is gradually purified, so that the sewage dlth) as such has com p1etely disappeared" Water is com part oxygen, as expressed by it's for naula H2-O, hence Long Island Sound is one third oxygen, enough to "puri- fy'' all the sewage of the entire New England States-this is unquestioned.
 Bridgeport has some fifteen miles of water front. and if all the sewage of New England was distributed through this area, the Sound would take care of it all, and purify it,, without the slightest injury to our city. Further more, the laboratory of nature con stantly reneWs it's creations, if any oxy gen is absorbed by the purificat ton of sewage, every breeze that blows, every current that flows. every stream that enters the sound, and every rain drop that patterS upon it, is constantly at work keeping the constituent parts of the Sound up to Gods great mark, so if the sewage of one moment has any tendency to reduce the natural ratio of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, every element in nature is instantly at work to readJust the tquation, and does readjust it. This 1 is Natures great law; without it, we would all perish; it is infallib1e.
 ing that 'swhen such disposal is prop er (discharge into large mass Of water) when the sewage is immediate ly diluted there is not and can De no nuisance" Great stress has been laid upon the fact that MT. Herring is. a great sanitary engineer, that is freely granted but it is overlooked, or worse, that MT. Herring has never his plans to Bridgeport. His plans are confessed1y for inland cities, where no large mass of water not used for domestic purposes, is available. He has, in so many words md deeds said I have certain plans 'or sewage disposal; it will cost you several millions to install them; if paid for I will furnish them to you, put no where, nor at any time has heI ever stated that they are as good or better than the plan now in use.
 It seems incredible that after the efforts of MT. ZaImon Good ell to educate our people upon this subject. that our chief Magistratel should indica te so profound an ignor- Lnce upon the subject. [ cannot un- Ierstand how any intelligent man can ail to grasp all the details of it, with he least examination and I trust hat the other recommendations to ,ond our City are not based upon as light information mis-inforrnat tion
 Very truly yours,