The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-01
PROPOSED PLAN FOR SEWERS MAY
 INCREASE SMELLS
Further Consideration of the Blunder of the Herring Double system Sewer Extraya-
tBY HON. zALMoN GooDsEaI-

MT. Herring, the experimentor of, sewer problems printed blue pa per, has not sewer system installed in any city of size for reference as far as heard from Why should our. people spend millions of dollars on: experimental blue print sewer plans, without a, single sample sewer system of some kind to investigate, which sewer system has been proved per- feet sewer system by continued ser vice.
 What's the immediate necessity or anxiety for making experiments from theoretical blue print plans of sew age disposal, at an enormous extra cost to the taxpayers when the health Of our people is so well provided for by the present sewer system.
 The pollution of the sPequonnock river might have been remedfed if our City Attorney had advocated the building of incinerating plants for the. disposal of garbage as recommended by the Board of Health and thereby removed the discharging of the rank liquid essence remaining of 50 tons of garbage into the PeQuonnock rRfv- CT avery day. Said rank liquid es- sence being of an oily nature isaheav-. fer than soluble house sewage and naturally floats on the surface of the water making public nuisance with its foul odors. These incinerating plants could have been built at a me-A dium cost of money in proportion to the $S00.0o0 borrowed money asked for to start building one small section of the Herring blue print inland city doubIe sewer system
 The City Attorney also ignored fur ther recommendation from the
 Health officers Of our city who urged the sof the bulkhe cad along
 both sides of the Pequonnock river
 which bulkheads would be the means Of reclaiming a large acreage of use fuI land and give our manufacturers and merchants the use of hundreds Of feet Of additional dockage.
 These bulkheads would make for swifter running water with a. deeper |channel for the soluble house sew
 age (after removing the rank garbage sewage from the Pequonnock river by
 incineFation9 which would be carried out into the Sound at each tide. The city attorney ignored these modern methods of the disposal of garbage by 1incineratfon, and the buIlheading of our flats. His principal efforts seem to have been to help promote. and continue the building of the so-called obsolete Herring blae print double sewer system. which blue print plan calls for four pumping stations. at different points of our city. one Of which pumping stations is included in the present proposed sewer plans The people know that if this gar bage polluting of the Pequonnock river was removed, no nuisance would be apparent from soluble house sew age after first being water borne in the sewers for long distances, and af- forwards being purified by discharg- ing this soluble house sewage into large quantities Of saline or antisep- tic water below low tide.
 The people do not know why it was recommended to the Judge of the garbage and removing the cause Of complaint, pumping station should be ordered placed at the outlet of the Lind1ey street sewer and pump soIu- ble water borne house sewage, which has caused no nuisance whatever. lsacross the Pequonnock river into the Knowlton street sewer and carry said
 sewage with the polluted sewage from l the garbage plant through the pro