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WHEREAS, this District as a part of an overall sewage
disposal system for the Coldwater Creek Watershed, has proposed a
sanitary trunk sewer to intercept all sewage wastes within the
watershed and discharge them into a sewage treatment plant to
serve the Coldwater Creek Watershed above Halls Ferry Road; and
WHEREAS, the need for this project is increased because
of the existence of the intake to the Chain of Rocks water
treatment plant serving St. Louis City is less than ten river
miles below the proposed treatment plant site; and
WHEREAS, the proposed project is one recommended as
part of the comprehensive plan for pollution abatement prepared by
the U. S. Public Health Service, Division of Water Supply and
Water Pollution Control; and
WHEREAS, it will eliminate serious public health
hazards and provide a high degree of treatment for all sewage
wastes from the area; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Government has enacted a law known
as the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act" 33 USC 466 et seq.;
and
WHEREAS, said Act provides in part that the Surgeon
General is authorized to make grants to any State, municipality,
or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the construction of
necessary treatment works to prevent the discharge of untreated or
inadequately treated sewage or other waste into any water
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT that the Executive
Director is hereby authorized to make application to the United
States of America for Federal assistance in the construction of a
sewage treatment plant to serve the Coldwater Creek watershed,
above Halls Ferry Road. Said application for Federal assistance
to be made under the provisions of the "Federal Water Pollution
Control Act" 33 USC 466 et seq.
The foregoing Resolution was adopted February 11, 1957.
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