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HomeMy Public PortalAbout01138 AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 1184 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1138 AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the acquisition of an easement within certain existing property within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, for the purpose of permitting construction of sewers therein to serve the needs of residents on adjacent lands and an easement for the discharge of stormwater on and over such property and authorizing the institution of condemnation proceedings in connection therewith, with an emergency clause. WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District an area in St. Louis County, Missouri, in which there work and live numerous people, and WHEREAS, sanitary sewage and storm water gathered from such area will have no alternative means of disposition to crossing said property and will constitute a menace to public 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 and welfare 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. In order to protect the public health and welfare and relieve the aforesaid unhealthy and dangerous 2 conditions, it is necessary to appropriate and acquire by the exercise of eminent domain or otherwise, an easement for the use of sewers as hereinafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent to the right-of-way as obtained as may be required for working room during construction period, and an easement for the discharge of stormwater as hereinafter set forth, and the right of ingress and egress over the premises sought to be condemned for the access to such easements: The easement for the use of sewers is described as being a strip of land 10 feet in width in Block 42 of St. Ferdinand Commons, Township 47 North-Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, lying 5 feet on each side of the following described center line: Beginning at a point in the eastern line of the tract of land conveyed to Albert V. Rickert and Dorothy L. Rickert, his wife, by deed recorded in Book 4546 at Page 624 of the St. Louis County Records distant 246.66 feet south of the northeastern corner of said track of land; thence westwardly at right angles with said eastern line a distance of 153 feet, more or less, to a point in the western line of said tract of land which is distant 296.66 feet south of the northwestern corner of said tract of land and which is also the point of ending. An easement for the discharge of storm water over the previously described property, and into an existing creek or stormwater channel at the western line of aforesaid property of 3 Rickert, at a point distant South 21 degrees 18 Minutes East 738.0 feet from the northwestern corner of said property, the stormwater to flow generally northwardly and eastwardly in said channel. Section Two. 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. The immediate construction of sewers being necessary in order to protect the public health and welfare within the District constitutes an emergency within the meaning of the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. 4 The foregoing Ordinance was adopted April 2, 1964.