HomeMy Public PortalAbout01858 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1858
AN ORDINANCE, declaring the necessity for the
acquisition of easements 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 of the area and authorizing the acquisition of such
easements by purchase or by the institution of condemnation
proceedings.
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District an area of St. Louis County, Missouri known as the
Mount Hope Outfall Sanitary Interceptor Sewer Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District wherein there live and work
numerous people; and
WHEREAS, sanitary sewage 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
by constructing sanitary sewers over and across said area in order
to relieve and alleviate 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
relieve insanitary and dangerous conditions, it is necessary to
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appropriate and acquire by the exercise of eminent domain or
otherwise, an easement for the use of a sewer line as hereinafter
set forth, together with temporary easements adjacent to the
right-of-way as obtained for working room during the construction
period, and the right of ingress and egress over the premises
sought to be condemned for access to such easements, said
permanent and temporary easements being more particularly
described as follows:
A strip of land 10 feet wide in Lot 35 of Carondelet
Commons South of River des Peres, in U.S. Survey No. 3102,
Township 44 North, Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, as
per plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 1, Volume 11, page 60 of
the City (former County) of St. Louis, Missouri Recorder's office,
the centerline of which 10 foot wide strip of land is described as
follows: Beginning in the northwestern line of Avenue "H" 20.46
feet wide, which is also the southeast line of said Lot 35,
distant southwestwardly therealong 175.64 feet from the
easternmost corner of said Lot 35; thence westwardly in a straight
line, 197.19 feet to its terminus in the centerline of the 20 feet
wide sewer easement established in said Lot 35 under Cause No.
243,500 of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, which
terminus point is 147.0 feet northwardly along the centerline of
said existing 20 feet wide sewer easement from its intersection
with said northwestern line of Avenue "H"; EXCEPTING THEREFROM
that part thereof lying within said 20 feet wide easement,so that
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the 10 feet wide strip of land herein described is bounded on its
eastern end by the northwestern line of said Avenue "H", and on
its western end by the eastern line of said 20 foot wide sewer
easement established under said Cause No. 243,500
Temporary easements during original construction of
sewer facilities, after which all rights of the condemnor shall
cease, which temporary easements are described as strips of land
30 feet in width on each side of, and immediately adjacent to the
hereinabove described 10 foot wide permanent easement, the western
and eastern lines of which 30 foot wide temporary easements are
coincident with the northwestern line of aforesaid Avenue "H" and
the eastern line of aforesaid 20 foot wide sewer easement.
Section Two. Counsel for The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District be and is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase,
if possible, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees, or to
institute and prosecute an action in condemnation, as authorized
by law, if necessary, to appropriate and acquire the aforesaid
interests in private property.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted March 6, 1969.