HomeMy Public PortalAbout00075 O R D I N A N C E NO. 75
AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the
acquisition of an easement for flow of sewage within certain
existing private sewers within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District and authorizing the institution of condemnation
proceedings in connection therewith, with an emergency clause:
WHEREAS, there exists within the boundaries of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District an area known and described
as Richford Gardens, a Subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri,
and
WHEREAS, the sewage gathered from such area has no
satisfactory means of disposition, and constitutes a menace to the
health and welfare of the general public and the residents of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and design of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to protect the public health
by relieving and alleviating these conditions;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. That in order to protect the public
health and relieve the aforesaid insanitary and dangerous
conditions, or to carry out and effectuate any one of the above
mentioned operations, it is necessary to appropriate and acquire
by the exercise of eminent domain or otherwise, an easement for
the flow of sewage, including a connection therewith, within the
following described sewer system of Town Service, Inc., a Missouri
Corporation:
Beginning at or near the northern line of Laclede Meadows, a
subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri; thence
across property now or formerly of Frank Sander and
wife, to Valcour Hills, a subdivision of St. Louis
County, Missouri, and beginning at General Sherman
Court in said Valcour Hills, and thence, joining
aforedescribed sewer line, across the Kenneth MacKenzie
Subdivision, a Subdivision of St. Louis County,
Missouri, to Heege Road; thence along Heege Road and
proceeding northeastwardly across property now or
formerly of Hydraulic Press Brick Co.; thence across
said property and across Resurrection Cemetery to
MacKenzie Road; thence across MacKenzie Road and
proceeding eastwardly to a connection with the River
Des Peres foul water system in the City of St. Louis.
Section Two. That Counsel for The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District be and is hereby authorized to institute and
prosecute an action in condemnation pursuant to the provisions of
the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and the laws
of the State of Missouri for the appropriation of private property
as hereinbefore set out.
Section Three. By reason of the existing insanitary
condition which is a menace to the health of the residents of the
District, an emergency exists within the meaning of the Plan of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and this Ordinance shall
take effect immediately upon its enactment.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 21, 1956.