HomeMy WebLinkAbout01551ORDINANOE NO. / / /' .5,
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Townsend providing; for the making of certain
extensions to, and replacements of, the existing municipal water
works system of said city, and providing for the payment thereof
by the issuance of emergency warrants upon the Olympic Gravity Water
Fund of said city.
WUREAS, the increased demand for water within and without the city requires
the making of certain extensions to, and replacements of, the existing water works
system of the City of Port Townsend, and,
WHEREAS, an estimated cost for such extensions and replacements has been
fixed at the sum of $2500.00, and the expenditure of such sum will not in any
respect impair the security of outstanding obligations now a continuing charge
upon the revenues of said city water system, and,
WHEREAS, at the time of making and adopt on,l?y the City C u;oil of the budget
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for the Olympic Gravity Water Fund of said Aty., the extensions and replacements
herein contemplated could not have been forseen at that time, and that an emergency
now exists for the expenditure of the said sum of $2500.00 from the Olympic Gravity
Water Fund of the City of Port Townsend, now, therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIE CITY OF PORT WMT END DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS?
Section 1. That the existing municipal water works system of said city be
extended by the construction of 5,000 feet, more or less, of wire wound wood pipe
along Hastings Avenue from a junction at the city limits south to an intersection
with the Arcadia cutoff, or as comnonly known t1Jake 1Iiller Road.,,
Section 2. That the present supply line on Fillmore Street be replaced with
approximately 400 feet, more or less, of 2-inch galvanized iron pipe, and 200 feet,
more or less, of .'--inch galvanized iron pipe.
Section 3. That said extensions and replacements also include all necessary
fire hydrants, valves, fittings and service taps for the same.
Section 4. That for the furnishing of said material and for the performance
of such labor, in order to complete the foregoing public improvement, there be