The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-01
C0ODSELL SHOWS EVILS OF
 HEAVY BONDING AND STATES
 CASE FOR SMALL TAXPAYERS

size to pump away Natures bountiful | supply of water as fast as Nature sup piled the same. Don't you think it would be good policy to take what the ! good Lord gives us to enjoy and be 1 thankful, because rain is certainly a i blessing we often pray for.
 | Do you approve of the order of the court for pumping station at Berk- shire Bridge?
 ''The cause of all the sench at Berkshire bridge in my Judgment has been removed. The liquid essence from
 fifty tons of garbage is not being emp tied any longer into the Pequonnock River at the head of navigation. There will be no need of pumping water l borne sewage from the west side of the Pequonnock River to the east side of the same. In fact, there nev- l CT was any need of such an order of Wastefu1 extravaganza. You or I or any one can go up to the outlet of 1 the Lindley Street sewer, which is ex- 1 posed at low tide and stand over the outlet of the sewer without any in convenience from strong sewer odors. This Lindley Street sewer takes care | of household sewage and being water | borne, by the time it reaches the
 mouth of the sewer, the odor is prae- t1cal1y not noticeable, and the sew 1 age itself looks almost like clear wa i ter. This seems like one of the traps 1 that are continually being planned by l l4AIGTSJed parties 10 force upon edQ un- i willing majority of the people this modified Herring sewer system, when our citizens by a three to one vote expressed their positive objection to the whole business.
 E"The unenptied garbage cans lying for many days at time in my yard l and in hundreds of other peoples yards is ten times more objectionable to our ne1ghbors than sewage matter that is purified twice in twenty-four | hours by antiseptic salt water. Just ! think of the number of criticisms you spoke of that are being made about our present sewer system, when these same interested parties have at 1 a great cost to the tax payers, built an entire new IS inch sanitary sewer i through Bishop avenue in the east end, and an additional sewer for sur face water, size 10 by IS in the same avenue; the inches in area of the IS l by IS sanitary sewer amounts to 324 1 inches; the 10 by 15 water surface sewer amounts to 150 inches and ad- ded together amounts to 474 inches | in area.
 ffOn the other hand the WiImot ave nue trunk sewer size 54 by 38 amounts | to 2,052 inches in area, a difference in favor of the Wi1naot Avenue trunk sewer of 1,578 inches in area. This was the Scofe1d trunk sewer former ly built to cover the same section of
 
 modified Herring sewer system. How does this picture suit our tax payers? Isn't it a, delightful prospect? These interested parties under this plan pro vide almost four-fifths less area of inches in space for future heavy rain falls, in the meantime, the WiIrno Avenue trunk sewer is headed up and the thousands of dollars it cost, to- tally wasted.
 "Our Board of Aldermen passed the resolution adopting the modified Her i ing system for the future sewage of l Bridgeport. Through the influence of these interested parties, and under this system, they will eventually have laid in our outlying streets many
 miles of 10 inch sanitary sewer pipes and A miles of inch sanitary sew CT pipe in adjacent streets to connect with these 10 inch mains, which in my l judgment is a farce, as I do not be- l 1ieve that the people of Trumbul1, or | Stepney, or Easton, or Monroe, would ever allow such small sanitary sewer pipes to be laid in the streets of their ! towns, but the order has been passed ! by our Board of Aldermen to go