The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-10
GOODSELL REPLIES TO
 ATTORNEY HUDSON
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I0pOTL lO In0 dOnOTaDl6 Common Council and the citizens of the City of Bridgeport, of which wish our citi- zens interested in this subject would secure a copy and read over again, quoted the following from Col. Wm. H. Black, U. s. A., a most eminent au- thority on sanitary engineering, who was appointed to investigate the pol lution of New York. Bay, and who be- ing an officer of the U. S. Army not working for private remuneration, af- ter making an exhaustive examination of the conditions there and finding no pollution of sufficient degree to be a. menace to the health of the City, has this to say regarding precisely the same system of sewers that are in use in New Haven, Hartford and our city:
 When the importance of the sub- ject and the vast amount of capital involved in the proper solution of the question are concerned, it would ap- pear self-evident that ordinary busi- ness sense would require careful in- vestigation into existing conditions. into the necessity for a change, and into the most economical method of attaining the desired resuIts.''
 (Report of Col. Black, page 193.9
 New York City has fifty times more population than any of our -Connecti- cut cities have.
 In Rudolph Hering's report, page >11:
 
 disposal of the sewage of Chicago, the mixing of the least amount of lake water with the sewage to render it in offensive.
 At the present time it is found that a flow of lake water equal to three people into the Chicago open sewer canal is sufficient to so dilute the sewage that it is not visible nor is there any odor, nor is there any in- jury done to the fishing interests.
 Chicago has twenty times more. population than any of our Connecti- cut cities have
 As the Connecticut Thames and Housatonic Rivers have a flow of wa ter approxim ate1y twenty times great CT than the f1owage of water passing through the Chicago canal, which fca- nal provides for the sewage of over two million of inhabitants,i the weak est intellect then could easily under stand that these rivers in our State are of natures providing, and are amply sufficient for the future sewer needs of the people of all the cities and towns bordering their shores for an indefinite number of years. These large bodies of water will also pro- vide better statistics of health for our people than would result from any sanitary sewer system ever invented by mortal man.
 In Rudolph Hering's report, page il:
 He says that the disposal of sewage into Long Lsland Sound at proper points and in a proper manner is en- Hrely feasible. It should give no nui- sance whatever; it would in fact be unn otfceable.
 In Rudolph Hering's report, Page IF:
 He. says a proper disposal of the sewage into the waters of the Sound will be much less expensive than a treatment Of the sewage by the cheapest of the successful methods of sewage. purification known to-day
 In Rudolph Hering's report. Page 15:
 He says at the present time, no necessity exists for purifying the sew age, other than by dilutton in the Sound.
 On. September 25, 1911, visited Reading where a. Herring Sewage Dis posal System had been installed, MT. Herring being the Chief Engineer.
 The chemist at the Reading sprink- ling plant informed me that if there was no organic matter in the water, the water should have full 100 per cent. of oxygen in it. Inasrnuch as there was only 65 per cent of oxygen left in the effluent after the sewage had passed through the septic tanks and the sprinkling filters, it follows that 35 per cent. of oxygen had been consumed by the organic matter in the sewage, and the effluent flowing back into the river was 35 per cent. impure. Further items, which might be of interest in regard to my visit to Reading, were communicated to the Honorable Sewer Committee, October T. 1911. At what degree the effluent from sewage was purified by sanitary sewer methods either at Boston, Wor- cester or Providence, I did not ascer- tain. Further items which might be of interest in regard to Boston, Wor- cester, Providence, Hartford and New Haven were included in my communi- cation to the Honorable Sewer Com naittee of the City of Bridgeport, June 5, 1911.
 Although Boston experts have dem onstrated by figures that the Boston sewage at 8 cost of $750.00O a year would produce by-product worth $1,- 900, 900 a year, will this paid Attor- ney of the oyster industries inform our Connecticut citizens whether this plan has been adopted or used up to the present time by the City of Bos- ton?
 Friends of mine, last winter, left at my home, oysters gathered on Fair field Beach, which I enjoyed eating very much. also enjoyed last ev- ening for supper some fine long clanQs which were dug on our shores and presented CO me ana l am peEIecIly willing to keep on enjoying these lux uries as long as my friends are will ing to provide them.
 Their paid Attorney admits that for a short season each year harbora blues are caught in our tidal waters, but further says that not fish is now sur viving in it's waters.
 In gEancing through the local items of the Bridgeport Morning Telegram May 1st, 1913, find an article from their Stratford correspondent (whose personality is unknown to me) who states that parties from Bridgeport and Derby are catching some fine strings of datf1sh in the Housatonic River.
 The oyster industry's paid Attorney claims that the filth and acid products of the manufactories Tn the Naugatuck Valley have destroyed every vestige