HomeMy WebLinkAbout1339 ORDINANCE NO. 1339
AN ORDINANCE declaring an emergency to exist on account of the inadequacy
and disintegration of the Park Avenue sewer in the City of Bremerton and the
necessity for laying new sewer mains on Park Avenue, with new outfalls in
Dye's Inlet and through the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Sinclair Inlet, and
appropriating funds to meet such emergency.
THE CITY C0~:.~,~,IS~ION OF THE CITY 'OF BREk'ERTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That a public emergency doe's exist in .the City of Bremerton
which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of 'making the budget
for the 'year 1940~ in that the Park Avenue sewer, which was laid during the
year 1912, is disintegrating due to old. fashioned and improper methods of
manufacture and the sewer pipe is in imminent danger oF collapsing; also, in~
that heavy rains which have fallen since the adoptS, on of the budget for the
year 1940, have caused floods in the City of Bremerton through the inadequacy
of said Park Avenue sewer to carry the storm and sanitary Waste during periods
of heavy rains; also in that the outfa!l of said Park Avenue sewer into 'the
waters of Dye's Inlet is not carried below the line of extreme low tide,
causing sanitary waste to be deposited on the beact~ or .in the shallow .water,
creating a health menace.
Section 2. That the southern portion of said Park Avenue sewer drains
into the waters of Sinclair Inlet through the Puget Sound Navy Yard, and that
it is necessary that the southern outlet and outfall of said Park Avenue sewer
through the Puget Sound Navy Yard, from the Navy Yard fence to the waters of
Sinclair Inlet, be enlarged, or that the capacity, thereof be increased, in
order to take care of such emergency; that the United States Navy has agreed
to ~urnish the labor necessary in co~nection with increasing the capacity of
said portion of the outlet and outfa!l of the Park Avenue sewer, providing
the City of Bremerton will f~r;~ish the necessary materials; that it is necessary
for 'public health of the inhabitants of the City of Bremerton and for the
protection of the property of the inhabitants of the City of Bremerton that
the conditions creating said emergency be i~m~ediately remedied, and the respon-
sibility of remedying said condition is the proper responsibility of the City
of Bremerton.
Section 3. · That it will be necessary to expend approximately $25,000.00
in order to· lay new sewer pipes and to pay for the work and materials' neces-
sary to remedy the emergent conditions herein mentioned, and the sum of
Twenty-five [~housand ($25,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as shall be
reouired to meet such emergency is hereby appropriated, and the City Clerk
is hereby authorized and directed to issue emergency warrant~ not ewceeding
the said sum, in payment of labor and materials especially occasioned by such
emergency; and that the city engineer is hereby directed to i~nediately proceed
to arrange for the purchase by the City of 3remerton, under competitive bids,
of the necessary materials to adequately increase the capacity of the southern
outlet and outfall of the Park Avenue sewer through the Puget Sound Navy Yard,
to turn the same over to the proper officers of the Puget Sound Navy Yard when
purchased, and to innnediately proceed to la~ a new ,and adeouate sewer along
Park Avenue in the City of Bre~erton, to further extend the northern outfall
of said Park _,avenue sewer into the deep waters of Dye's Inlet, 'and to do such
other work and arrange for the purchase by the City of Bremerton under compe-
titive bids, of such materials as may be necessary to make such improvement a
complete and adequate job, all in accordance with plans and specifications
approved, or to be approved, by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton.
APPROVED unanimously by the City Commission on first reading this ~-~
day of September, 1940,
PASSED.unanimously by the City Commission on final reading, signed by the
Mayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication oF such passage, this
/g~ day of ~ 1940.
Attest:
E. J. McC~J~L_ b_v _~
City Clerk - Deputy~-