HomeMy Public PortalAbout00588 O R D I N A N C E NO. 588
AN ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Executive
Director to grant to the State of Missouri, for the use of the
State Highway Commission of Missouri, the right to cross the River
des Peres Drainage Works in the City of St. Louis with a highway,
and to execute an instrument giving effect thereto upon the
conditions hereinafter set out.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Plan of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District and by Resolution No. 6 of the District,
adopted July 1, 1954 and recorded in Book 7407, page 596 of the
City of St. Louis Records, the District took title for its use and
possession to all public easements for sewer and drainage purposes
within its area, including those of the City of St. Louis; and
WHEREAS, the State Highway Commission of the State of
Missouri wishes to cross the River des Peres Drainage Works of
this District with a highway; and
WHEREAS, the State Highway Commission of the State of
Missouri has requested the District grant the right to so use such
Drainage Works, and the District is willing so to do;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
does hereby grant to the State of Missouri, for the use of the
State Highway Commission, the right to construct, reconstruct,
repair and maintain a highway across the River des Peres Drainage
Works in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, according to plans
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approved by District's Engineering Department and as hereinafter
set forth, subject, however, to the following terms and
reservations:
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District reserves the
right to the full access to and use of such Drainage Works for
sewer and drainage purposes, including the right to construct
new sewers and appurtenances therein and to use, maintain and
reconstruct the new and existing sewers and appurtenances therein.
The State Highway Commission will, if considered
reasonably necessary by District's engineers, protect the existing
Drainage Works, sewers and appurtenances at its cost, or, if
necessary to reconstruct, relocate or repair because of such
highway use, such work will be done at the cost of the State
Highway Commission. That portion of the River des Peres Drainage
Works which is involved in this grant is described as follows:
A parcel of land in the River des Peres Drainage Works
as established by Ordinance 32986 and in City Blocks 3292 and 3293
and
Out Lot 3 of the City of St. Louis, Missouri and described as
beginning at a point on the western right-of-way line of said
River des Peres Drainage Works, said point being North 8 degrees,
34 minutes, 31 seconds East along said right-of-way line a dis-
tance of 118.72 feet from the northern line of Primm Street;
thence North 81 degrees, 02 minutes, 14 seconds East across said
right-of-way a distance of 294 feet more or less to a point on the
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eastern right-of-way a distance of 294 feet more or less to a
point on the eastern right-of-way line of said River des Peres
Drainage works; thence North8 degrees, 34 minutes, 31 seconds East
along said eastern right-of-way line a distance of 11 feet more or
less to a pont of curve; thence continuing along said eastern
right-of-way line on the arc of a curve to the left having a
radius of 1306.28 feet a distnace of 480 feet to a point;t hence
westwardly a distance of 287 feet to a point on said western
right-of-way line of the River des Peres Drainage Works; thence
southwardly along said western right-of-way line on the arc of a
cruve to the right having a radius of 1026.28 feet a distance of
424 feet to a ponit of curve; thence South 8 degrees, 34 minutes,
31 seconds West along said western right-of-way line a distance of
96.54 feet to the point of beginning and contianing 141,615 square
feet (3.25 acres) more or less.
Section Two. The Executive Director is hereby
authorized and directed to execute in behalf of the District an
instrument giving effect to Section One hereof.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted June 29, 1961.