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HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0789 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 789 WHEREAS, Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict was established on petition by Ordinance No. 1304, adopted April 8, 1965, and WHEREAS, investigation has shown that such area is not adequately served by trunk sanitary sewers and that the public health is affected, and WHEREAS, it is estimated that the probable cost of installation of such sewers will be approximately One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00), and that the most practicable method of payment therefor is by special tax bills, or other evidence of special benefit assessments upon the land benefitted by such installation, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the construction of adequate trunk sanitary sewers in the area known as Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict is necessary in the interest of the public health; that such sewers shall consist of approximately 50,350 lineal feet of 8 to 33 inch pipe and necessary appurtenances, which shall be capable of efficiently serving or draining the entire local drainage area; that the estimated probable cost of such improvement is One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00); that the entire cost of such improvement shall be paid for by special tax bills or other evidence of special benefit assessments upon the land benefitted by such improvement; and that such improvement be constructed in said subdistrict, such facilities to flow into or be connected with proposed public interceptor sewers of the Mississippi River Subdistrict. 3 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that special benefit assessments for the entire cost of such improvement be levied against all land in the above described subdistrict, whether public or private; in the proportion that each such lot or parcel of land bears to the entire benefitted area of such subdistrict, exclusive of streets, roads and alleys. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a public hearing be held within said subdistrict to afford all persons interested in said improvement an opportunity to be heard; that such hearing shall be held at such time and place as the Executive Director shall determine, but not less than ten nor more than thirty days after the adoption of this Resolution; and that notice of such hearing shall be given by the publication of notice in at least one issue of a newspaper of general circulation within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District not less than ten days in advance of the date of such hearing. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 10, 1965.