The Stonycreek River, from its confluence with the Little Conemaugh River southward to the upper river face corner of the abutment of the Franklin Street Bridge, is hereby declared to be a public highway and watercourse. The width thereof shall be 225 feet at the bottom of the channel and the boundary lines at the bottom shall be as follows:
The eastern or right-side boundary line shall begin at a point where the left-side boundary line of the Little Conemaugh River will intersect the right-side boundary line of the Stonycreek River; thence up the Stonycreek River south nineteen degrees west 412 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 2,865 feet, through an arc of twenty-seven degrees and twenty minutes, length, 1,366.7 feet to a point at the upper river face corner of the easterly abutment of the Incline Plane Bridge; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 1,146 feet, through an arc of thirteen degrees and thirty minutes, length, 270 feet to a point; thence south twenty-one degrees and fifty minutes east 713 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 430 feet through an arc of 104 degrees and forty minutes, length, 785.5 feet to a point; thence north fifty-three degrees and thirty minutes east 290.5 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right, radius, 494.7 feet, through an arc of fifty degrees and four minutes, length, 432.28 feet to a point; thence south seventy-six degrees and six minutes east sixty-nine feet to the upper river face corner of the north abutment of the Franklin Street Bridge.
The left-side boundary line shall begin at a point on a line through the center of the Pennsylvania Railroad Stone Arch Bridge, forty-two feet westward from the river face of the westerly abutment of such Bridge and connecting with the southerly end of the left-side boundary line of the Conemaugh River as established by ordinance; thence by a curve to the right, radius, 2,598 feet, through an arc of eight degrees and thirty-six minutes, length, 389.9 feet to a point; thence south fourteen degrees and fifty-seven minutes west 756 feet to a point 225 feet distant from the first point of curve of the easterly or right-side line as herein described; thence up the river by a line parallel to the easterly or right-side line and distant 225 feet at right angles therefrom to the upper river face corner of the southerly abutment of the Franklin Street Bridge.
The slope outward of the bank or margin of the stream from the bottom line on each side shall be one and one-half feet for each foot of rise. However, when river retaining walls are built, either by the City or by property owners, to protect the land and to form the bank, the same may be built with a batter of not less than one-half inch to the foot, with the consent of Council and under the direction of the City Engineer.
A map or plan of the Stonycreek River as herein bounded and described remains in the office of the City Engineer.
(Sp. Ord. 139. Passed 2-8-1892.)