Ordinance of the City of South Bend Concerning the Financing and Construction of Sewage Treatment Works

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may be necessary or useful and convenient for the collection and treatment, purification and disposal in a sanitary manner of the liquid and solid waste, sewage, night soil and industrial wastes of said City, and to acquire all necessary lands, rights of way, or other property therefor within or without the cor- porate limits of the City, under and pursuant to Chapter 61 of the Indiana General Assembly for the year 1932, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto (hereinafter some- times referred to as the "Act "). The term "sewage treatment works ", "works" and other like terms used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean and include all facilities and property for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sewage. Section 2. Said sewage treatment works, consisting of lands, easements, rights of way, buildings, grit chambers, pre - aeration tanks, primary settling tanks, aeration tanks, secondary settling tanks, chlorination tanks, sludge digesters, sludge beds, pumping stations, sewage lift stations, intercepting sewers, river crossing syphons and chambers, connecting sewers, diversion sewers, lateral sewers and lateral connections, and other equipment, accessories and appurtenances, shall be ac- quired and constructed in accordance with the plans, specifi- cations and estimates heretofore prepared by Consoer, Townsend & Associates, Consulting Engineers of Chicago, Illinois, which are now on file in the office of the Board of Public Works and Safety and are hereby adopted and approved, and by reference made a part of this ordinance as fully as if the same were at- tached hereto or incorporated herein, the cost of said sewage works as estimated by said Engineers being in the amount of Nine Million Three Hundred and Twenty -five Thousand Dollars ($9,325,010.00). Section 3. The funds required for the payment of the cost of construction of said sewage treatment works shall be