03/28/1913 Board of Public Works Minutes

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75.8 TRUNK SEWER IMPROVEKENT RESOLUTION N0. 245. ✓ Resolved'by the Board of Public works of the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, State o.f Indiana; That it is desired and deemed necessary to construct a sewer IN MISHAWAKA AVENUE AND BETWEEN THE WESTERbY FND OF" SAID MISHAWAKA AVENUE AND THE ST. JOSEPH RIVER, all in slid City , which, from its sire and char- acter, is not only intended and adaptedfo use"_by property owners whose property abuts along the line of said sewer, but is also intended and adapted for receiving sewage from collateral drains already constructed or which may be hereafter con- structed, and the same is hereby ordered constructed in and along the following line in said City.to-wit:- Beginning on the easterly bank of the St. Joseph River at a point in; line with the center line of Mishawaka Avenue if produced, thence running south easterly in line with the center of said Mishawaka Avenue with a sewer fifty-four (54) inches in diameter to the ce ter line of Eddy Street; thence still south east- erly following the center line of said Mishawaka Avenue to a point One Hundred (100) feet east of the center line of Ermerson Avenue with a forty-eight (48) inch sewer, thence easterly along the center of Mishawaka Avenue to the center line of Greenlawn Avenue with a twenty-four (24) inch vitrified pipe sewer; thence east along the center line of said Mishawaka Avenue to the center of Ninth Street. with a twenty (20) inch vitrified pipe sewer; thence still east along the center of Mishawaka Avenue to the center of Twelfth Street with an eighteenth (1E) inch vitrified pipe sewer;- thence still east along the center of Mishawaka Avenue to the center of Sixteenth Street with a fifteen (15) inch vitrified pipe sewer, together with the house connections to the curb line along the line of said improvement, And to be built in accordance with the profiles, specifications, detai detail plans; maps and estimates now on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of said City, which includes an estimateof 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 adequate local sewer, built along the line above described, is hereby estimated and fixed to be Forty Three (43%) per cent of the cost of the main sewer to be built along said line as aboee set -forth, which proportion, as herein estimated and fixed, shall be taken and adapted in all computa- tions 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 hereinabove set- forth, shall be paid by the abut- ting property holders and the City of South Bend, if it be determined that said City s 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 provided. li 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 property in the district or area to be drained and against the City, if it be deter- mined that the said City if benefited by t e said sewer' according to the manner and method preseibed by law, all of which said property beneficially affected 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 intersection of the northerly bank of the St. Joseph River and the center line of the first north and south alley west of Frances Street, in said City; thence running north along the center line of said alley to the center of Division Street; thence east along the center of Division Street to the center line of the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company's Righty of Way:- thence easterly along the center line of said Railway Company's right of way to the center 6 of Greenlawn Avenue; thence north along the center of said Greenlawn Avenue t- the center of the road along the north line of Section 7, Township 37 North, Range 3 East; thence east along the center of said road to the center of Nineteenth' Street thence south along the center of Nineteenth Street to a point one hundred fifty (150) feet south of the south lino of Mishawaka Avenue thence west parallel with and one hundred fifty (150) f- et south of the south line of said Mishawaka Avenue and Mishawaka Avenue produced to the easterly bank of the St. Joseph River; thence north westerly following the easterly bank of said river to a point in line with the center line of the first north and south alley west of Frances Street which point is 6 the place of beginning.