HomeMy Public PortalAbout02385 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2385
AN ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Executive
Director to amend a Gas and Oil Lease dated September 1, 1955 and
recorded in Book 3484, Page 464, in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds, St. Louis County, Missouri.
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District owns
the following described land in St. Louis County, Missouri: A tract of land in United States Survey 210, Township 47 North, Range 7 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the Western line of property described in deed to Elmer Witte and wife, recorded in Book 4951, Page 20, St. Louis County Recorder's Office, with the centerline of Coldwater Creek Drainage Ditch Right-of-Way 2A, 100 feet wide; thence North 18 degrees 40 minutes 48 seconds West 1062.36 feet, along the Western line of said Witte property; thence North 73 degrees 19-1/2 minutes East 660.96 feet to the Eastern line of said Witte property; thence South 22 degrees 49 minutes East 1139.91 feet along the Eastern line of said Witte property to the centerline of said Coldwater Creek Drainage Ditch Right-of-Way; thence Westwardly along said centerline to the Western line of said Elmer Witte property and the point of beginning, and containing 18.101 acres, more or less. Including all right, title and interest of Landowners in and under Coldwater Creek Drainage Ditch and in and under roadways, public and private, as established and used. ;and
WHEREAS, in a Gas and Oil Storage Lease dated September
1, 1955 and recorded in Book 3484, Page 464, in the Office of the
Recorder of Deeds, St. Louis County, Missouri, The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District granted to the Osage Gas Company the
exclusive right and privilege to introduce oil, natural gas or
other gases or vapors into geological strata underlying the above
described land at a depth of more than 1000 feet; and
WHEREAS, all of the interests of the Osage Gas Company
in the aforesaid Gas and Oil Storage Lease were assigned to the
Laclede Gas Company by an instrument dated September 7, 1955 and
recorded in Book 3484, Page 471, in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds, St. Louis County, Missouri; and
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and
the Laclede Gas Company have agreed to amend said Gas and Oil
Storage Lease to include the use of the Trenton limestone and its
cap rock, the Maquoketa shale, for the underground storage of gas,
and further, that the right of use granted with respect to said
land shall extend to any and all strata and formations thereof
underlying said land below the top of the Maquoketa formation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. The Gas and Oil Storage Lease dated
September 1, 1955 and recorded in Book 3484, Page 464, in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds, St. Louis County, Missouri,
granted to the Osage Gas Company from The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District and assigned to the Laclede Gas Company on
September 7, 1955, is hereby amended to include the use of the
Trenton limestone and its cap rock, the Maquoketa shale, for the
underground storage of gas, and further that the right of use
granted with respect to said land shall extend to any and all
strata and formations thereof underlying said land below the top
of the Maquoketa formation.
Section Two. The Executive Director is hereby
authorized and directed to execute in behalf of the District an
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instrument giving effect to Section One hereof. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted February 15, 1973.