01/28/1913 Board of Public Works Minutes

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N Tuesday .ran., ;t _ 191= Conti MI CHI GAN STREET TRUNK .SEWER.. - N® 216. RESOLVED, By the Board of -Public Wo rKs of the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to construct a sewer in Michigan Street and LaSalle Avenue, said City, which, From its side and -charaefer, is not only intended and adapted for use bjr property owners whose `property abuts along the line of said sewer-, but is also intended and adapted for receiving sewage from collateral drains already con- structed or 'which may be hereafter constructed., and the same is hereby ordered con- structed in and along Mi chi gan Street and LaSalle Avenue, beginning at a point in the center of LaSalle Avenue where the same intersects with the westerly bank of the St. Joseph River, in the said City of South Bend; thence running west along said LaSalle Avenue to Michigan Street with a sewer sixty (60) inches in diameter; thence south along Michigan Street to the center of Washington Avenue with a sewer sixty (60) inches in diameter thence still south along Michigan'Street to the center of Jefferson Blvd. with a sewer fifty four (54) inches in diameter; thence still south along Michigan Street to Monroe Street- with a surer forty-e;;gkt (48) inches in dia- meter, together with all the necessary house and store' connections to the curb line along the whole length of said improvement, andto be built in aceo'rdsnee vdth the profile, specifi.cations, detail plans, maps and estimates new on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of saaid. City, whiek ineludes all estimate of the proportion that the cost of an adequate local sewer, built along the above line, bears to the cost of the main sewer, to be built as follows: The cost of an adquate local sewer, built along the line above described, is hereby estimattee, and fixed to be of the cost of tke main sewer to be built along said line as above set Forth, which proportion, as herein estimated and fixed, shall be taken and adapted in all eomputations 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 c;onst rue- tion of said sewer shall be divided as follows: - 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 -sewer; - if built along the proposed line as hereinabove set forth, shall be paid by the abut- ting property holders and the said City of South Bend, if it -be determined that the said City is benefited by said sewer in :the same manner and to the same extent as local sewers, are paid for by them, under the Statutes in such cases made and pro- vided.. 2• The excess of cost over and above what would be equvivalent to the cost of a loal sewer, it built along said line, 'shall be assessed aged nat each piece of property in the di st ri et or area to be drained and against the City, if it be determined that the said City is benefited' by the said sewer, according to the manner and method prescribed by law, all of which said property benefi(d ally af- fected lies within the following- described territory in the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, and State of Ind1ana, t o-wit : - Beginning at the center of LaSalle Avenue and the Rrst alley west of Michigan Street, in the City of South Bend.; thence .south along the center line of said alley and said alley produced and ex- tended, to the center of Ewing Avenue; thence east along the center of Ewing Avenue to the first alley east of Mi chi gan Street; thence north along the first alley east of Michigan Street; to the first alley south of Calvert Street; thence east along said alley to the center of Witwer Avenue; thence north along the center of V/itwer Avenue to the first alley south of Dubail Avenue; thence east along said alley to the center of Carroll Street; thence north along the center of Carroll Street to the a ley South of Pennsylvania Avenue; thence west along said alley to the center of Witwer, Avenue; thence north along Witwer Avenue and through the alley between -lot s Eighty-three (83) and eighty-four (94) Elder Place Addition, to the first alley 11orth of Pennsylvania Avenue; thence east along said a ley to the first alley west of Carroll 5t reet ; thence north along the center of the First alley West of Carroll Strut to a point One •Hundred. Fifty (150) , feet south of true south line of Sample Street; thence we rt parallel a,nsl one Hundred Fifty (150) feet south of the south line of Sample Street to a point One Hundred sixty-five (165) feet east of the east lisle of Michigan Street; thence north parallel with -and one Hundred sixty-five (165) feet east of the east line of Michigan Street to a point One hundred fifty (150) feet south of the south line of Tutt Street; thence west parallel with and One Hundred fifty (150) feet south of the south line of said Tutt Street to the southerly line of the Lake Shore and Ili chi gan Southern Railway Comp any' e right of way; thence north aeross lot Twenty-nine (P9) Denniston's Fellows' Addition to the north and south alley between Columbia Street and Fellow Street; the still north following the continued.