06/23/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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288 Tuesday TRUNK SEWER IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 327. J Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, State of Indiana: That it desired and deemed necessary to 'construct a sewer on Division Street from Olive Street to Chicago Street, all in said City, which from its size and character, is not°>ronly intended and adapted for use by prope rty own— ers whose property abuts along the line of said sewer, but is also intended and adapted for receiving sewerage from collateral drains already constructed or which may be here— after constructed, and the same is hereby ordered constructed in and along the follow— ing lint: in said City to —wit : - beginning at the center of Meade Street and Division Street; thence vast along the center line of Division Street to the center of Olive Street with a 24 inch vitrified pipe sewer, Also beginning at the center of Meade Street and 'Division Street; thence west along the center line of Division Street to the center of Berlin Street with a 24 inch vitrified pipe sewer; thence still west along the center line of Division Street to the center of La Salle Street with a 20 inch vitrified pipe sewer; thence still west along the center of Division Street to the center of Kenmore Street with an 19 inch vitrified pipe _sewer; thence still west along the center line of Division Street to the center of Chicago Street with a 15 inch vitrified pipe sewer. Together with the nec— essary manholes, inlets conduits and house connections to the curb line along the line of said improvement. And to be built in accvrdnce with the profile, specifications, detail plans, maps and estimates now on file in the office of the Department of Public Works df said City, which includes an estimate of the proportion that the cost of an ade— quate local sewer, built along the above line, rears to the cost of the main sewer, to be built as follows:— The cost of an adequate local sewer, built along the line above described, is hereby estimated and fixed to be of the cost of the main sewer to be built along said line as above set forth, which proportion, as hr herein estimated and fixed, shall be taken and adopted in all computations requiring a knowledge of the cost of such local sewer if built along the line where -the main sewer is to be built. The cost of the construction of said sewer shall be divided as follows:- 1.So much of such cost as shall be equivalent to the construction of an adequate local sewer not adapted to receive sewage from collateral drains or sewers, if built along the proposed line as hereinab&ve set forth, shall be paid by the abutting property holders and the City of South Bend, if it be determined that said City is bene— fited by said sewer in the same manner and to the same extent as local sewers, are paid for by then,under to Statutes in such cases made and provided. 2. The excess of cost over and above what would be equivalent to the cost of a local sewer, if built along said line, shall be assessed against each piece of pro— perty in the district or area to be drained and against the City, if it be determined that the said City if benefited by the said sewer, according to the manner and method prescribed by law, all of which said property beneficially arfected lies within the. following described territory in the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph,and State of Indiana ,to —wit: — Beginning at the center of Jefferson Boulevard and Anthony Street, thence west along the center line of Jefferson Boulevard to the center of Chicago Street; thence south along the center of Chicago Street to a point 165 feet south of the south line of Division Street; thence east parallel with and 165 feet south of the south line of Division Street to a point 200 feet west of the east li a of Section 9 Twp. 37 N. R. 2 E. thence south parallel with and 200 feet west ff the east line of said Section 9 to the center line of Huron Street produced west; thence east on the center line of Huron Street produced west and Huron Street to the center of the Alley east of Kaley Street; thence north on the center line of the Alley east of Kaley Street; thence north on the center line of the Alley east of Kaley Street to the First Alley aouth of Division Street; thence east on the center line of the First Alley south of Division Street t the center of Olive Street; thence north on the center of Olive Street to a point 120 feet north of the north line of Division Street; thence ' west parallel with and 120 feet north of- the north line of Division Street to the First Alley west of Kaley Street; thence north on the center line of the First Alley west of Kaley Street to the center of Jefferson Boulevard; thence west on the center line of Jefferson Boulevard to the center of Anthony Streetwhich point is the place of bgginning.