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ORDINANCE NO. 5298 <br />AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF <br />ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SEWAGE <br />WORKS OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE CITY OF <br />SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, THE ISSUANCE OF ADDITIONAL <br />REVENUE BONDS TO PROVIDE THE COST THEREOF, <br />THE COLLECTION, SEGREGATION AND DISTRIBUTION <br />OF THE REVENUES OF SAID WORKS, THE SAFEGUARDING <br />OF THE INTERESTS OF THE HOLDERS OF SAID BONDS, <br />AND OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH <br />WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, Indiana, has heretofore <br />established and now owns and operates a sewage works pursuant to Chapter <br />5, Article 2, Title 19, of The Indiana Code of 1971; and <br />WHEREAS, the Stream Pollution Control Board of the State of <br />Indiana, acting pursuant to Chapter 214 of the Acts of the General Assembly <br />for the year 1943 on October 23, 1964, issued a final order to the City of <br />South Bend ordering said City to cease and desist from causing and con- <br />tributing to the pollution of the St. Joseph River downstream from the point <br />of entry of sewage treatment plant effluent into said water; and said Board <br />has ordered the City to construct facilities for adequate disinfection of the <br />City's sewage treatment plant effluent; and <br />WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend <br />has represented to the Common Council and the Council now finds that said <br />sewage works is in need of certain additions and improvements in order to <br />comply with said final order; and that plans, specifications and estimates <br />have been prepared and filed by the engineers employed by the City for the <br />necessary additions and improvements to the sewage works owned and opera- <br />ted by said City, which plans and specifications have been approved by the <br />Board of Public Works of said City and by all governmental authorities having <br />jurisdiction, particularly the Stream Pollution Control Board of the State of <br />Indiana, and the State Board of Health; and <br />WHEREAS, the Council further finds that the Board of Public <br />Works has advertised for and received bids for the construction of said <br />additions and improvements to the sewage works of said City, and on the <br />