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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
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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
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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.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted April 2, 1964.