07/02/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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20'130 TRUNK SEWER IMPROVEMeITT RESLUTION NO. 580. _ o RESOLVED by the Board.of Public Works of the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, State of Indiana; That it ie desired and deemed necessary to construct a'Trunk sewer in Wilbur Street and'Thempeoa Street from Portage Avenue to Brookfield Street and lateral sewers in Stocker Place from the center line of Portage Avenue to the westerly line of Portage Avenue, Wilbur Street from Thompson Street t- Heller Street and College Street from Hamilton Street to Keller. Street, known as the Marquette Park Trunk Sewer System all in said City, which, from it size and cuaracter, is net only intended and adapted for use by property owners whose property abuts along the line of said sewer, but is also intended and adapted for receiving seweage from collateral drains already constructed or which may be hereafter constructed, and the same is hereby ordered constructed in and along the following line in said City,tow-it Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Portage Avenue and Wilber Street; thence south westerly and south along the center line of said Wilber Street to the. center line of Thompson Street -with a 30 inch vitrified pipe sewer; thence west along the center line of Thompson Street to the center line of College Street with a 30 inch vitrified pipe sewer; thence still west along the center line of Thompson Street to the center line of Brookfield Street with a 24 inch vitrified pipe sewer. Also begin at the intersection of the center line of Thompson Street and College, Street; thence north along the center line of College' Street to the south line of Hamilton Axaanxe Street with a 10 inch vitrified pipe sewer. A13o begin at the intersection of the center line of Thompson Street and College Street; thence south along the center line of College Street to the center line Of Keller Street with a 10 inch vitrified pipesewer. Also begin at the intersection of the center line of. Thompson Street and. Wilber Street; thence south along the center lineof Wilber Street to the center line of Keller Street with a 10 inch vitrified pipe sewer. Also begin at the intersection Of the center line of Portage Avenue and Stocker Place; thence westerly along the center line of Stocker Place to the westerly line of Portage Avenue with a 10 inch vitrified pipe sewer. Together with the necessary manholes, storm water inlets:, conduits, flush tanks and'house connections to the curb line along the line of said improvement, all as is more particularly shown, and all in accordance with the pro-,- files, plans, detail drawings and specifications on file in the office of the Depart - meat of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana,, And to be built in accordance with the profiles, specifications, detail plans, maps and estimates now on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of s id City, which includes an estimate of the propost ion th t the cost of an adgquate local sewer, built along th above -line, bears to the cost of the -main sewer, to be built as follows:- The cost of an adWquadeelocal sewer, built along the line described, is hereby estimated and fixed to be I of the cost of the main sewer to be built along said line as above set forth, which proportion as 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 d iv ided as follows:- L. So much of such cost as shill be equivalent to the construction of an Adequate local sewer not adopted to receive sewage from collateral drains or'sewers ,if built along.the proposed lines as hereinabove set forthm shall be paid'by the abut ting property holden and the City of South Bend, ` if it be determined that said City Is benefitted by said sewer in the same manner and to the same ipxtend as local sewers, are paid for by them under the Statutues do such cases made and provided. 2. The excess of cost and abov a what would be equivalent to the cost of a local sewer, if built along said Line, shall be assessed against each pieve of property in the district it 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 affected lies within the -following described territory in the City of Soub Bend, County of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, to -wit:-